Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical is a West End transfer that turned a bizarre WWII deception plot into one of London's most talked-about shows. The musical recounts how British intelligence officers used a corpse, fake documents, and sheer audacity to fool Hitler into shifting German forces away from Sicily—saving thousands of Allied lives in the process. The show has been praised for its sharp wit, genre-hopping score, and the fact that it makes military bureaucracy genuinely funny. After sell-out runs and Olivier Awards, it's now on Broadway at the Golden Theatre.