Olivier-winning musical ‘Operation Mincemeat’ is coming to Broadway
Brit hit “Operation Mincemeat” is looking to add some Tony Awards to its pair of Oliviers with the announcement of its arrival on Broadway in the new year. The new musical begins a 16-week limited run at the Golden on February 15, with opening night set for March 20.
This tuner tells the unlikely tale of a an elaborate plot by the British during WWII to deceive the Germans. A vagrant’s body is dressed in a Royal Marine officer’s uniform packed with fake plans for D-Day. Both the book and the score are by the members of the comedy troupe SpitLip (David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoe Roberts).
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In a statement announcing this new Broadway production, SpitLip said: “If we had to name one single unifying influence for ‘Operation Mincemeat’ it would be the American Musical Comedy. ‘The Producers,’ ‘Guys & Dolls,’ ‘Wicked,’ ‘Avenue Q,’ ‘The Book Of Mormon’– we never dreamed we would even get to go see shows like these on Broadway, let alone open our show alongside them. Thank you to our fans, and particularly those in the US for getting ‘Operation Mincemeat’ here. If it gets hounded out of Broadway after one night, it will still be beyond our wildest dreams. Our producers, we’d imagine, would be less pleased.”
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Robert Hastie directed this production through its various iterations, beginning at an 80-seat theater in London before stints at the Southwark Playhouse and Riverside Studios culminated in a West End stand. The show opened in March 2023 at the Fortune Theater to rave reviews and racked up six Olivier nominations.
The cast is small by Broadway musical standards. Five performers handle multiple parts, often across genders. No word yet on whether any of the original cast (which included Cumming, Hodgson and Roberts who all reaped Olivier bids for their performances) will be making the trip across the pond. Another of the quintet, Jak Malone, won the featured actor Olivier.
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