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Playing on the Fortune Theatre 29 March – 8 July 2023
Following 5 sold-out improvement runs on the New Diorama Theatre in 2019 and Southwark Playhouse in 2020, 2021 & 2022, plus an prolonged Riverside Studios run final summer time, the total solid and artistic staff for the West End premiere of Operation Mincemeat – a brand new musical, is introduced in the present day. Previews begin on the twenty ninth March, adopted by an 8-week run starting on the ninth May 2023, after thirty-three massively profitable years of The Woman In Black on the Fortune Theatre.
2023 Olivier Award nominated Robert Hastie (Standing on the Sky’s Edge, National Theatre) is director, following offering directorial assist for the Riverside Studios run, whereas Olivier Award nominated Jenny Arnold (Jerry Springer: The Opera, National Theatre) continues as choreographer. Also becoming a member of from Standing on the Sky’s Edge on the National Theatre on the artistic staff are: 2023 Olivier Award nominated Ben Stones (Sylvia, The Old Vic) as set and costume designer, Tony Award, six-time Olivier Award and Bafta Award profitable Mark Henderson (Girl From the North Country, Broadway & Noël Coward Theatre) as lighting designer and Olivier Award profitable Mike Walker (Jerry Springer: The Opera, National Theatre) as sound designer. Grammy Award profitable and Tony, Emmy, Olivier award nominated Steve Sidwell (Beautiful: The Musical, Broadway & Aldwych Theatre) is orchestrator and vocal arranger. Georgie Staight joins Robert Hastie as Associate Director.
Understudies becoming a member of the beforehand introduced 2023 Off-West End ‘Best Musical Production’ award profitable returning solid, David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Jak Malone and Zoë Roberts, are: Seán Carey (getting back from the Hammersmith Studios run), Geri Allan, Christian Andrews and Holly Sumpton.
Operation Mincemeat is written and composed by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts, who kind SpitLip. The present is offered within the West End by Avalon (in affiliation with SpitLip), who’ve supported for the reason that Southwark Playhouse runs, alongside New Diorama Theatre and The Lowry.
The yr is 1943 and we’re shedding the conflict. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse.
Singin’ within the Rain meets Strangers on a Train, Noel Coward meets Noel Fielding, Operation Mincemeat is the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the twisted secret mission that received us World War II. The query is, how did a well-dressed corpse wrong-foot Hitler?