Top Secret Spies Who Sing and Dance Reviewed by Mary Alderson It’s 1943 and the Allies’ progress in World War II looks bleak. Hitler is always one step ahead of them. MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), the British espionage gang, is under great pressure to come up with clever plan to get ahead in this horrific war. The best idea they have to offer is code-named Operation Mincemeat. The idea is cobbled together without much thought or attention to detail, and somehow, it is accepted and launched. The five people working on the plan will remind you of the old TV show Get Smart – they bumble along and by strange means their strategy to feed false information to the Nazis gains ground. Operation Mincemeat is on stage now at Toronto’s Royal Alexandra Theatre until December 13. Five excellent comedic actor-singer-dancers who play multiple parts tell the true story (yes, true, this silliness is not a fictional story) of how they put fake information into the German army’s hands, which in turn, led the Nazis to pull out of Sicily and allow the Allies to move in. This new musical was a hit on London’s West End and on Broadway, winning many awards and nominations in 2024 and 2025. This musical moves quickly along and you will need to know a couple of things in order to keep up. First, the actors play various roles, and women play men and men play women, so pay attention to the characters. Arrive at the theatre early enough to peruse the Programme, where there are photos and descriptions of the actual people involved. Ewen Montagu, Charles Cholmondeley, John Bevan, Jean Leslie, Hester Leggatt and Glyndwr Michael are not names found in the old history books, but they did change the course of WWII, ...