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🐀 operation ratmeat
🐀 Operation Ratmeat… Mission Commenced.
Welcome to The Stage Rat—where a literal rat (me) has somehow seized control of a keyboard to review the best theatre every week. This rat is suave, sophisticated, and may occasionally nibble on pizza from the subway floor.
The Rat wants you to have a better theatre experience. Let’s be honest today’s theatre is tough. You face expensive tickets, information overload, and a lack of access to creative conversations. So I scurry through the underground, uncover hidden gems, and give away free tickets every week.
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THE RAT’S RECOMMENDATION:
“OPERATION MINCEMEAT”
Cheese Score: 🧀🧀🧀 🧀(4/5)
Description: Operation Mincemeat is a wildly clever musical about a real-life WWII spy hoax, where British intelligence uses a dead body and a fake identity to dupe the Nazis—served with a side of wit, chaos, and catchy tunes.
Why You Should Care:
British Banter – Funny, fast, razor-sharp, and has got the “banter.” Translates surprisingly well to US audience from the UK. #Snakesandladders
Songs That Go Harder Than They Should – A girlboss Churchill anthem, a pop number about Nazi paranoia, sea shanties….The songs are sharp, absurd, and annoyingly good.
Total Character Chaos – Five actors play everyone, from MI5 to clueless Nazis, switching very fast. The physical work, the accents and the choreography is just FIRE. The directing work in this is just world class.
Campy, But with Teeth – Beneath the chaos, it skewers bureaucracy, power, and the absurdity of war—without ever slowing down for a lecture.
Where and When – John Golden Theater, NYC, Show Duration: 2 hours 35 mins.
Who to Bring – Bond, James Bond, Your Eton Friend (floreat), the friend who’d 100% get caught as a spy, someone with a deeply specific crush on a British actor, or ideally, an unclaimed corpse in a well-tailored suit.
Rat Tip – Skim the Wikipedia page for Operation Mincemeat beforehand. Then, debrief over a stiff drink like you just pulled off a classified mission. Shaken or Stirred?
Have you seen it? What's your rating? |
Overall Cheese rating: 4/5
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