About the Show

A corpse, a love letter, and Ian Fleming collide in this Tony Award® nominated WWII musical comedy.

It’s 1943, and the Allies are losing ground in World War II—until British intelligence hatches a bizarre and high-stakes plan to mislead Hitler. Operation Mincemeat follows the unbelievable true story of how a stolen corpse, a forged identity, and a carefully crafted love letter were used to stage one of the most daring deception operations in military history. Told with sharp wit and infectious energy, the musical reimagines real-life espionage as a whirlwind of schemes, secrets, and stiff-upper-lip absurdity.

The show arrives on Broadway following a record-breaking run in London’s West End, where our London community score the show to Audience Acclaimed status, and it won the 2024 Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Written and performed by the British comedy and musical collective SpitLip, the ensemble cast plays dozens of roles at breakneck speed in a production that has been hailed as “Singin’ in the Rain meets Strangers on a Train.”

With its roots in historical truth and its heart in irreverent theatricality, Operation Mincemeat brings a uniquely British lens to Broadway. It's a spy story where the heroes wear tweed, the jokes are rapid-fire, and the fate of the world hinges on a corpse with a briefcase.

Operation Mincemeat received 4 Tony Award® nominations in 2025, including Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for Jak Malone, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.

Critic Reviews (16)

“A show trying to be something it isn’t, like the corpse in its borrowed uniform.”
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"Operation Mincemeat is a cup of British comedy, sometimes with drawn-out humor to a fault — not for every American. But it also captures the Hollywood hagiographic, the self-deprecating, the ironic, and the tragic that will make you gasp."
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"As Malone delivers it, with beautiful directness in a wistful high tenor, the troubles of the real world take center stage and the troubles of the show melt away. Like Hester herself, it’s the quietly beating heart of the whole operation."
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"Operation Mincemeat has plenty of joy to go around."
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"This British production mines for antic musical comedy"
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"The five-actor ensemble, under the nimble direction of Robert Hastie, takes a cuckoo — and a wee bit horrifying — premise and mines it for every gem of a laugh, be it big, small or shameless."
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"I can’t say the score is destined for greatness, but it facilitates a clever rhyme here and there as well as rigorously silly comic staging"
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"...an often tiring wallop of frenetic hyperactivity. There’s ample cleverness and some witty lines, but the Red Bull tweeness gets grating."
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