New York, NY (May 13, 2025) – It was introduced at the moment on the entrance to the United Nations in New York City that the Olivier Award®-winning and Tony Award® nominated Best Musical, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical is launching a globe-spanning World Tour.
The world tour involves Glasgow’s Theatre Royal from Tue 10 – Sat 14 November 2026 the place the present will make its Scottish premiere. This announcement comes after the manufacturing’s third Broadway extension via February 15, 2026, and its fifteenth West End extension via February 28, 2026.
In Operation Mincemeat, it’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve received a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, however somewhat contained in the pocket of a stolen corpse. Equal elements farce, thriller, and Ian Fleming-style spy caper (with an help from Mr. Fleming himself), Operation Mincemeat tells the wildly unbelievable and hilarious true story of the covert operation that turned the tide of WWII.
SpitLip, the musical’s writers and composers, commented:
“Broadway opened the literal world to us, and we couldn’t be more grateful for every unpredictable twist of this astonishing journey. Most of all, we wish to thank the audiences who continue to carry this show with love and enthusiasm. Operation Mincemeat reminds us that in uncertain times, the bonds between allies are more important than ever – and that message feels especially relevant as we consider all the great nations in which our show will now have the opportunity to play. This show continues to be the adventure of a lifetime, and we’re wildly excited about what’s to come.”
Tour dates for different territories and casting particulars might be introduced. Fans can signal as much as the mailing record to be the primary to listen to when the present lands in a metropolis close to them. Watch this area for information on new nations and continents.
Directed by Robert Hastie, Operation Mincemeat started performances on Broadway on February 15 and is now taking part in on the historic Golden Theatre (252 West forty fifth Street).
Starring in Operation Mincemeat are David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Olivier Award-winner Jak Malone, and Zoë Roberts, who’ve reprised their unique, acclaimed performances for the musical’s Broadway (American) premiere.
The choice to put in writing the musical was the final roll of the cube from the quartet of younger British creatives after years of performing sketch reveals on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and echoes the journey of Beyond the Fringe from the world-famous quartet Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, which premiered on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1960 earlier than transferring to the Fortune Theatre and later to the Golden in 1962.
Operation Mincemeat started as a tiny (and tiny-budgeted) manufacturing at London’s New Diorama Theatre. The present shortly gained a faithful following, spurring sold-out runs at venues together with Southwark Playhouse and Riverside Studios. It lastly premiered within the West End on May 9, 2023, on the Fortune Theatre, the place it has since acquired 74 five-star evaluations and counting, changing into ‘the Best Reviewed Show in West End History.’ Now in its third sold-out yr, the present continues to play to standing-room-only crowds and has constructed one in all London’s most passionate fanbases, affectionately often known as the “Mincefluencers.”
Operation Mincemeat has been nominated for 64 awards since opening on the 77-seat New Diorama Theatre in 2019, profitable 13, together with Best Musical 3 instances, from the Olivier Awards®, WhatsOnStage Awards, and Off-West End Awards. On Broadway, the present is nominated for 4 Tony Awards® in 2025, together with Best Musical and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Malone, who beforehand received the Olivier Award® in the identical class. The manufacturing has additionally acquired nominations for Outstanding Production of a Musical on the Drama League Awards, Outstanding New Broadway Musical on the Outer Critics Circle Awards, Best Musical on the BroadwayWorld Theater Fans’ Choice Awards, and Favourite New Musical on the Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards.
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