Operation Mincemeat: Smash-hit West End musical heads for Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
‘The best reviewed show in West End history’ of the scheme that turned the tide of WWII is coming to Sheffield in 2026.
Operation Mincemeat will play at the Lyceum Theatre from April 13 -25 this year as its sets out on a thunderous UK tour.
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The story of how a dead body and a love letter ejected from a submarine duped the Nazis into losing occupied Sicily in 1943 began as a tiny production by four friends at the London Fringe New Diorama Theatre in 2019.
It went on to win the 2024 Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical and a Tony Award-winning musical on Broadway and is now is now running simultaneously in London and New York.
It tells the astonishing true war story of how MI5 took the body of a homeless man, dressed him in a Marine officer’s uniform and stuffed his pockets with fake invasion plans for Greece and Sardinia before arranging to deposit his body on the shores of Spain, which successfully wrong-footed Hitler into moving his forces away from Sicily.
The cracking piece of wartime deception was adapted into what fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable musical of dashing WWII officers trying to pull one over on the Nazis.