The Olivier Award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat had its much anticipated Broadway opening March 20 at the Golden Theatre, and the reviews are out.
The show tells a wacky, stranger-than-fiction story that is somehow completely true, following a World War II scheme in which British Intelligence officials dressed up a corpse as an officer in the Royal Marines in order to fool the German government into believing an Allied attack on Sicily was imminent, covering up their true plans to invade Greece and Sardinia in the process. Spoiler alert—it actually worked.
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Tickets are currently on sale through August 10.
Here's why Playbill thinks you should see the show.
Read the reviews below.
- Broadway News (Brittani Samuel)
- Culture Sauce (Thom Geier)
- Cititour (Brian Scott Lipton)
- The Daily Beast (Tim Teeman)*
- Entertainment Weekly (Shania Russell)
- Forward (PJ Grisar)
- New York Daily News (Chris Jones)
- New York Magazine / Vulture (Sara Holdren)*
- New York Post (Johnny Oleksinski)
- New York Stage Review (David Finkle)
- New York Stage Review (Michael Sommers)
- New York Theater (Jonathan Mandell)
- New York Theatre Guide (Caroline Cao)
- New York Times (Jesse Green)*
- Observer (David Cote)
- Talkin' Broadway (Howard Miller)
- TheaterMania (David Gordon)
- Theatrely (Andrew Martini)
- Time Out New York (Adam Feldman)
- Wall Street Journal (Charles Isherwood)*
- Variety (Frank Rizzo)
- Washington Post (Naveen Kumar)*
- The Wrap (Robert Hofler)*
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Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.
The musical is the work of U.K. comedy group SpitLip, which comprises David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts. Cumming, Hodgson, and Roberts are all performing in the show, too, while Hagan, who took the lead on the project's music, remains out of the footlights.
They're joined in the cast by Claire-Marie Hall as Jean Leslie and Jak Malone as Hester Leggatt, with Cumming as Charles Cholmondeley, Hodgson as Ewen Montagu, and Roberts as Johnny Bevan. All five are reprising their performances from the musical's 2023 West End debut, and all making their Broadway debuts with the performance. Malone won a 2024 Olivier Award for his performance, alongside the show's Best New Musical win.
Understudies Brandon Contreras, Sam Hartley, Jessi Kirtley, Gerianne Pérez, and Amanda Jill Robinson round out the company. Casting is by Carrie Gardner of C12 Casting. U.K. casting is by Pearson Casting.
Also back for the Broadway bow is director Robert Hastie, who's reunited his full London creative team, including choreographer Jenny Arnold, music director and supervisor Joe Bunker, orchestrator Steve Sidwell, set and costume designer Ben Stones, lighting designer Mark Henderson, and sound designer Mike Walker. Karen Moore serves as production stage manager.
The production is offering $39 tickets via a digital lottery program (enter at Rush.Telecharge.com) and $49 rush tickets in person daily at the Golden Theatre box office.
The Broadway run is being produced by Avalon in association with SpitLip. Andrew Fell serves as executive producer.
Visit OperationBroadway.com.
