TONY® AND OLIVIER AWARD® -WINNING OPERATION MINCEMEAT ANNOUNCES LIVE FROM LONDON, NEW YORK, CHICAGO AND NORWICH THE AUSTRALIAN LEG OF WORLD TOUR

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FIVE ACTORS
189 FIVE-STAR REVIEWS
AND NOW, FIVE PRODUCTIONS!
YOU REALLY COULDN’T WRITE IT!​

LINK TO ANNOUNCEMENT VIDEO HERE.​

London, UK (8th October 2026) – Live from the casts of Operation Mincemeat in London (West End), New York (Broadway), Chicago (North American leg of the world tour) and Norwich (UK leg of the world tour), during curtain call of each of their respective shows last night, it was announced that the Tony® and Olivier® Award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat, is officially heading to Australia as the next leg of its World Tour, set to premiere at Comedy Theatre in Melbourne in September 2027, with further cities to be announced. Julia Knitel (Broadway’s Ewen Montagu), Madeleine Jackson–Smith (West End’s, Ewen Montagu), Holly Sumpton (UK Tour’s Ewen Montagu) and Katie Kleiger (North American Tour’s Ewen Montagu) each gave a speech simultaneously announcing the fifth production on its journey across the globe. The search for the cast will commence in early 2027.​

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The year is 1943 and we’re losing the war. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse. Operation Mincemeat is the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the twisted secret mission that won the Allies World War II. The question is, how did a well dressed corpse wrong-foot Hitler?

Jon Thoday, Producer at Avalon, said: “It’s incredibly exciting to be invited to produce Operation Mincemeat in Australia and to be able to bring the show to a whole new audience. From its beginnings in a 77-seat London fringe theatre, the show is now playing simultaneously in the West End and on Broadway, with a world tour underway, so far spanning the UK and North America. Australia will be the fifth production of Operation Mincemeat and the next chapter in its extraordinary journey.”

Operation Mincemeat is currently in performances in the West End, on Broadway and has just launched its world tour, which began with a UK leg, that has recently been extended into 2027, and is now weeks into its journey across North America. On 20th September, the production launched the North American leg of the tour launched with two performances at the Providence Performing Arts Center, Rhode Island, welcoming a combined audience of 5,200 – the production’s biggest audience to date. On 26th September, across the North American leg, UK leg, Broadway and the West End productions, 9,734 agents, nearly 10,000, watched the production in one day. The show’s international journey will continue with Australia as its fifth production, before travelling on to New Zealand, China and Mexico, taking Operation Mincemeat across four continents.

Across over 2,000 performances, Operation Mincemeat has cultivated a fervent fanbase, affectionately dubbed “Mincefluencers.” On Broadway alone, more than 5,000 audience members – roughly one in 25 – have bought tickets for multiple performances, including 205 superfans who have purchased tickets for ten or more shows.

Operation Mincemeat has been nominated for 68 awards since opening at the 77-seat New Diorama Theatre in 2019, winning 24, including Best Musical 4 times from the Olivier Awards®, WhatsOnStage Awards, BroadwayWorld Theater Fans’ Choice Awards, and off-West End Awards. On Broadway, the show was nominated for 4 Tony Awards® in 2025, including Best Musical. The production won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Jak Malone’s portrayal of Hester Leggatt, who previously won the Olivier Award® in the same category. The production has also received nominations for Outstanding Production of a Musical at the Drama League Awards, Outstanding New Broadway Musical at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, Best Musical at the BroadwayWorld Theater Fans’ Choice Awards, and Favourite New Musical at the Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards.

Written by triple Tony Award® nominees SpitLip (comprised of David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts), and directed by Robert Hastie, Operation Mincemeat is currently on its 19th extension, running until 29th May 2027 in London at the Fortune Theatre which takes the production into its 5th year in the West End, while simultaneously playing on Broadway, and has launched its world tour in the UK and US.

Operation Mincemeat is produced on Broadway and in the West End by Avalon (in association with SpitLip). The show was commissioned by New Diorama Theatre, co-commissioned by The Lowry, and also supported by the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat.​

Notes To Editors

• On 26th September, across the North American leg, UK leg, West End and Broadway productions, 9,734 agents watched Operation Mincemeat in one day.
• On 20th September 2026, Operation Mincemeat launched the North American leg of the world tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center, Rhode Island where it welcomed a combined audience of 5,200 – its largest audience to date.
• On 15th September, the UK touring cast were joined by co-creator David Cumming in Cardiff’s Alexandra Gardens, home to the Welsh National War Memorial, to unveil a dedication to the unsung hero of the real MI5 plot, Glyndwr Michael – the man who served as Major William Martin.
• On 14th September 2026, Operation Mincemeat announced that the UK leg of its landmark global tour has been extended into 2027.
• On 9th September 2026, it was announced by Concord Theatricals that a full-length adaptation Operation Mincemeat is available as Operation Mincemeat: The Expanded Cast for performance by casts aged under 19 years old in the UK and Eire, featuring companies of up to 87 actors.
• On 27th February 2026, Operation Mincemeat sold its 1 millionth ticket and gave out 5 Golden tickets to celebrate, awarding 5 lucky people free, unlimited access to Operation Mincemeat, anytime, anywhere in the world, for life.
• On 22nd February 2026, after playing more than 1,000 performances since its inception, the original British cast, Olivier Award® Winners and Tony Award® Nominees David Cumming, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts, Tony Award® winner Jak Malone, and Claire-Marie Hall will play their final Broadway performance ahead of handing over to an all-American cast.
• On 16th February 2026, the Operation Mincemeat World Tour began at Lowry, Salford.
• On 12th December 2025, Operation Mincemeat became the longest-running musical at Broadway’s Golden Theatre since Avenue, upon reaching its 306th performance.
• On 29th August 2025, Operation Mincemeat celebrated 1000 shows in the West End at the Fortune Theatre.
• Operation Mincemeat has sold over 400,000 tickets in the West End.
• The Queen, Robert de Niro, Colin Firth, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Neil Patrick Harris, Alex Horne, Greg Davies, Reece Shearsmith, Alan Carr, Sir Ian McKellen, Frank Skinner, Daisy Ridley are among the Mincemeat West End Alumni.
• Steven Speilberg, Cynthia Erivo, Lin Manuel Miranda, Bette Midler, Daniel Radcliffe, Jesse Eisenberg, Samuel L Jackson Josh Gad, Ariana DeBose are among the Mincemeat Broadway alumni.
• On 13th May 2025, it was announced at the entrance to the United Nations in New York City that Operation Mincemeat is launching a global tour.
• On 1st May 2025, it was announced that Operation Mincemeat received four Tony Award® nominations – Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score (music and lyrics) Written for the Theatre and Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical. Jak Malone won the Tony® for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, having previously taken home the Olivier Award® for the same role in 2024.
• On 17th  April 2025, a survey from Operation Mincemeat was sent out asking for real historical connections fans of the show may have to the real World War II operation, responses from fans poured in with many identifying relatives that were part of the Sicily invasion that Operation Mincemeat ultimately led to, fans who would not exist if it weren’t for the operation.
• On 16th February 2025, 300 Mincefluencers flew to New York to surprise the cast of Operation Mincemeat on Broadway with a special rendition of ‘Sail On, Boys’, resulting in a blockage on 45th street.
•  On 15th February 2025, previews for Operation Mincemeat on Broadway began at the Golden Theatre.
• On 1st October 2024, it was announced that Operation Mincemeat, will open on Broadway at the Golden Theatre – its first musical since the Tony Award® Triple Crown winner Avenue Q – on 20th March 2025.
• On 1st November 2024, it was announced that the original cast featuring David Cuming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Olivier Award®-winner Jak Malone, and Zoë Roberts, will reprise their acclaimed roles on Broadway.
• On 14th June 2024, a survey of Americans who have seen Operation Mincemeat revealed that 90.2% believe the show is not “too British” for Broadway.
• The West End’s American audience for Operation Mincemeat has grown from 2% in 2023, to now reaching 14%.
• A record-breaking fan has attended over 213 times.
• On 14th April 2024, Operation Mincemeat won Best New Musical and Jak Malone won Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical Olivier Awards®.
• On 4th April, 2024 Concord Theatricals announced it secured from Avalon exclusive worldwide secondary licensing rights to Operation Mincemeat.
• On 8th March 2024, Sony Music released a limited-edition 7″ ‘Dear Bill’ vinyl featuring Jak Malone, who originally portrayed Hester Leggatt on-stage, to coincide with International Women’s Day.
• On 26th January 2024, after years of campaigning on social media, Colin Firth, star of the Operation Mincemeat film, watched the musical.
• On 11th December 2023, a plaque in honour of Hester Leggatt was unveiled at the Fortune Theatre.
• In Autumn 2023, Reece Shearsmith, Frank Skinner and Rosie Jones hosted post-show Q&As.
• In August 2023, following #OperationInterestingMan starting to mysteriously appear on X/Twitter over the Bank Holiday weekend, over 80 Mincefluencers surprised a performance in costumes from every different character in the musical. In total, the five person multi rolling cast play 32 characters.
• In August 2023, a decision to ban the posters for Operation Mincemeat on the London Underground was reversed by Transport for London.
• In August 2023, MI5 officially confirmed the identity of Hester Leggatt.
•  In July 2023, the musical’s fandom, referred to as Mincefluencers, tracked down previously unearthed records for Hester Leggatt, the head of the MI5 secretarial division, who helped turn the tide of history. More information here.
• In June 2023, Sony Masterworks Broadway picked up the Original Cast Recording digitally and on CD in the United States.
• In May 2023, to celebrate the West End premiere, Sony Music released the full Original London Cast Recording on CD, vinyl, streaming and digital. Listen here. To date, the tracks have been streamed over 2 million times worldwide.
• After five sold-out development runs at the New Diorama Theatre in 2019 and Southwark Playhouse in 2020, 2021 & 2022, plus an extended Riverside Studios run last summer, Operation Mincemeat began previews in the West End in March 2023.
• The last musical produced by Jon Thoday for Avalon, Jerry Springer: The Opera, led to a prosecution for blasphemy. So far, Operation Mincemeat seems to be heading towards a happier conclusion.
• The idea of the musical came through Natasha Hodgson’s brother pointing SpitLip towards an episode of the Stuff You Should Know podcast about Operation Mincemeat.
• The show is currently featured in the V&A’s Re:Imagining Musicals display, exploring how musicals have continuously reimagined, reinvented and reinterpreted themselves over time.
• Other adaptations of Operation Mincemeat include: –
  Operation Heartbreak (book, 1950) by Duff Cooper, former Cabinet Minister of Information
  The Man Who Never Was (book, 1953) by Ewan Montagu
  The Man Who Never Was (film, 1956) based on the book by Ewan Montagu
  Operation Mincemeat (book, 2010) by Ben MacIntyre
  Operation Mincemeat (film, 2022) starring Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen
• Top secret’ documents found on the aforementioned stolen body, include the receipt for a diamond ring from the legendary London jeweller, S J Phillips and theatre tickets from the West End’s Prince of Wales Theatre, currently housing The Book of Mormon.

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