Award-winning West End musical Operation Mincemeat has extended for a 17th time in London.
Operation Mincemeat is now playing at the Fortune Theatre until 27 September 2026, with tickets on sale from 5 December.
In August, the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical celebrated 1,000 performances in the West End.
Operation Mincemeat is running simultaneously in London and New York, with the Broadway production recently announcing its fourth extension at the John Golden Theatre in New York, to 15 March 2026.
Next year will also see a World Tour for the hit show, including a 40-week UK tour from 16 February 2026. Overall, the tour will cover four continents, including the US, Australia, Canada, China, Mexico and New Zealand.
Operation Mincemeat started its life at the Off-West End New Diorama Theatre in 2019, and then played the Southwark Playhouse and Riverside Studios before opening at the West End’s Fortune Theatre on 9 May 2023.
The show has subsequently won Olivier and WhatsOnstage Awards for Best New Musical.
The London cast features Alex Young (Stranger Things: The First Shadow) as Ewen Montagu & others, Roshani Abbey (Hamilton) as Jean Leslie & others, Maddie Jackson-Smith (Jingle Street, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang UK Tour) as Jean Leslie & others, Danny Becker (Disney’s Aladdin) as Hester Leggatt & others, Jason Kajdi (Matilda The Musical) as Hester Leggatt & others, Chloe Hart (Six The Musical, Hairspray, Wicked) as Johnny Bevan & others, Geri Allen as Johnny Bevan & others, Peter McGovern (Much Ado About Nothing) as Charles Cholmondeley & others, and George Jennings (Tina – The Tina Turner Musical) as Charles Cholmondeley & others. The cast also includes Madeleine Jackson-Smith (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) as Ewen Montagu, Jean Leslie & others.
Operation Mincemeat is directed by Olivier Award-nominated Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge), following his directorial support for the Riverside Studios run, with Olivier Award-nominated Jenny Arnold (Jerry Springer: The Opera) as Choreographer.
The creative team also includes Ben Stones (Sylvia) as Set and Costume Designer, Mark Henderson (Girl From the North Country) as Lighting Designer, and Mike Walker (Jerry Springer: The Opera) as Sound Designer. Also, Steve Sidwell (Beautiful: The Musical) is Orchestrator and Vocal Arranger, and Joe Bunker is Musical Director. Georgie Staight is Associate Director, Paul Isaiah Isles is Associate Choreographer, and casting is by Pearson Casting.
In Operation Mincemeat, it’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stolen corpse. Equal parts farce, thriller, and Ian Fleming-style spy caper (with an assist from Mr. Fleming himself), Operation Mincemeat tells the wildly improbable and hilarious true story of the covert operation that turned the tide of WWII.
Operation Mincemeat is playing at the Fortune Theatre until 27 September 2026.
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