Best-reviewed show in West End history. Extended 10 times! 💼 "The year's funniest musical"
@washingtonpost
. Olivier winner - Best New Musical. 67 x ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!
Dear audience, I'm afraid we've not got long to write... Just a quick one to say CONGRATS to
@JakMalonee
for winning Best Supporting Actor in a Musical at tonight's
@OlivierAwards
🌹
🚨Important intelligence from Mincemeat HQ🚨
There are rumours that we had TWO Montagu’s in the theatre last night… 👀
Thankfully we’ve obtained hard evidence that Operation
#GetColinFirthToMincemeat
was a success!🎉🎉🎉
Delighted to add you to the Mincemeat alumni, Colin!🫡
Come on, Colin!
Over 100,000 ✨glitzy✨agents have made it to our show...
#MincemeatAlumni
include Robert de Niro, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Reece Shearsmith, Ian McKellen and Daisy Ridley. Yet the Colin Firth Box has a distinct lack of, well, Colin. Your Sangria is going flat 🫠
🎉Did we do it?... We did it!🎉
The best reviewed show in West End history has officially become a double winner of Best New Musical tonight at the
@OlivierAwards
! Boy oh boy, this is glitzy indeed!!!✨🤯
🚨WE'RE EXTENDING AGAIN🚨
Tickets on sale Friday 28th!⏱
Set your clocks. Ready your alarms. Sound the sirens. And get yourselves on the mailing list for the BEST SEATS IN THE HOUSE.
Not to mention some other delightful perks... soon to be revealed! 😉🕵️♀️
🚨BIG NEWS🚨
We're extending again... again! 🎉
That means SIX MORE glorious weeks of singing, sangria and a silly amount of entertainment.
Get on the job agents:
🎶Did we do it? We did it!🎶
WINNER - Best New Musical at the
@WhatsOnStage
awards!🎉
We’re raising a sangria in thanks to all you agents who voted and all the dependable dreamboats who make the show what it is!🍹
#WOSAwards
Thanks all for tuning in to watch
@christian_leeA
perform Dear Bill with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra as part of this year’s D-Day anniversary alongside veterans of the Normandy Campaign
That's right, folks! We're sticking around a little longer🎉
Operation Mincemeat is extending again (for the 5TH TIME!) until 21 April which means we'll be here to see you all the way through the cold bitter winter. Like a tuneful, sangria laden companion!
ON SALE FRIDAY 29TH!
We’ve got a good feeling! We’re feeling good about this news.
We’ll be sticking around in the West End a little longer than expected - another (another!) FIVE weeks! Come and see us at the Fortune Theatre until September 23rd!
🎟️:
They're back! We're thrilled to announce that all your Mincemeat favourites Natasha Hodgson, David Cumming, Zoë Roberts, Jak Malone and Claire-Marie Hall will be returning to the stage for our West End run at the Fortune Theatre.
Something special is happening, folks!!!🥹
On Monday 11th Dec, a plaque in Hester Leggatt's honour will be unveiled following the dedicated research of some incredible fans!🌹💛
You'll be able to view the plaque unveiling from the entrance to the theatre.
🎉Listen closely, agents!🎉
@JakMalonee
has been nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for the 2024
@OlivierAwards
!!! Congratulations Jak!🌹✨
Someone get a mug with this fine fellow's face on it, stat!
@Seanannigans91
as Charles Cholmondeley & others. Pleased to reveal he and our new recruits will be stationed from 13 May. Standby for more news🫡
1979 days ago we opened our little show to an audience of 81 people at the
@newdiorama
. Today we stood together on stage, singing those same silly songs in front of 5272 people in the
@RoyalAlbertHall
Thank you
@OlivierAwards
& all you agents who have supported us on our journey
WE/YOU/EVERYONE IS INSISTING THE SHOW GOES ON - Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical at the Fortune Theatre has been extended to the 19th August! 🚨 Six more weeks! The people have spoken! We’re simply having the best time. We can’t believe they’re letting us do this. Thank you.
🎉Glitzy intelligence acquired!🎉
Operation Mincemeat has been nominated for Best New Musical at the 2024
@OlivierAwards
!!! Time to celebrate, grab a gin!🍸
#OlivierAwards
‼️ Today's matinee marks 100 shows on the West End ‼️
Here’s to all the unsung heroes behind the curtain - our band, stage management, wardrobe and venue staff who keep the wheels turning on our little machine. Thank you! 💛
We’re toasting a mammoth jug of sangria to you all!🍹
We are absolutely thrilled with the reviews coming in for our show. Here are some of our favourite things that have been said about Operation Mincemeat so far:
Just for tonight... it's our 400th show on the West End!!! That's right, chums. 400 teary Dear Bill's 🥺 400 glitzy finales✨ and 400 curtain jumps 🎉 at the
@Fortune_Theatre
. A massive thanks to all those who keep the cogs turning behind the scenes!
🚨ATTENTION ALLIES🚨
We're extending again..again...again...again...again.... again... Oh, now this really is getting silly🤗
Tickets go on sale 10th November!🎉
Apparently today's a good day for manifesting, if there were, for example, a musical about a well-dressed corpse you'd like to see transfer, hypothetically speaking of course...👀👀
#StrictlyNeed2Know
🎉200 SHOWS ON THE WEST END🎉
Perhaps
@Variety
were onto something when they kindly wrote, “a little show with a very big future.”😊
Grand old thank you to all the agents, far and wide who have helped us get here!
Does a newt have an anus? Did we get our ads on the underground?!
Yes! Yes it does and yes we did! 🎉
Whole-arsed thank you to
@TfL
for jumping on the Mincemeat tube 🫡 Keep your eyes peeled for our new ads on the underground 👀 COMING SOON!
This message is of a nature most importanté. Please share this message with your allies and make sure they’re signed up to the mailing list in order to receive crucial Operation Mincemeat communications. You have your orders…
The wonderful people at Sony have stumped up the cash for us to record a little EP of four of our top Mincemeat tracks, but we’d like to ask your opinion on something…
Mincemeat alumni and the
@taskmaster
’s assistant,
@AlexHorne
, has put our silly little show in his highlights of the year!!! Big thanks for your lovely words, chum!🫡
🎉One year in the West End, chums! 🎉
Massive thanks to all those who have visited us at the
@Fortune_Theatre
and to everyone behind the scenes who keep the show going!💛🫡
A whole year of
@mincemeatlive
in the West End 🤯 Truly the stuff of dreams.
This life isn't always easy - in fact, it is often quite tough (just ask my back) - but it's an honour and a privilege to be allowed to be an idiot nightly and spread joy.
Thanks for all the support
🎉Glitzy intelligence acquired!🎉
@stevesidwell
(Orchestrations) and Joe Bunker (Musical Direction) have been nominated for Outstanding Musical Contribution at the 2024
@OlivierAwards
for their work on Operation Mincemeat! Bloody job well done, chums!🫡
#OlivierAwards
Come on, Colin!
Over 100,000 ✨glitzy✨agents have made it to our show...
#MincemeatAlumni
include Robert de Niro, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Reece Shearsmith, Ian McKellen and Daisy Ridley. Yet the Colin Firth Box has a distinct lack of, well, Colin. Your Sangria is going flat 🫠
Dear Col (in Firth) - as you can see renovations are well underway for the Colin Firth Box. Let us know when you’re free to see the show and we’ll put the red wine and fizzy pop on ice. DM us or drop us an email @ ColinFirthReservationHotline
@operationmincemeat
.com. Lots of love.
Today's matinee show marks 500 performances in the West End!!! A whole-arsed number indeed. We're raising our sangrias to all those behind the scenes who keep our crazy show on the stage and all the dependable dreamboats who have come to see us!💛
Dear Colin Firth - us again! We wanted to show you we were serious about having you over to ours to see the show. We’ll be reserving a box for you every day until midday until you see it - the Colin Firth Box! Do get in touch: ColinFirthReservationHotline
@OperationMincemeat
.com
📣 Thrilled to announced that our pals
@swkplay
have invited us to EXTEND OUR RUN! Tickets now available from 14 Jan - 19 Feb 2022
#GodThatsBrilliant
🎟 Get involved →
Wow! A massive thanks for all the support at
@WestEndLIVE
today, agents! Dependable dreamboats the lot of you. And a hearty thank you to West End Live!🎉
Wait a minute! What’s that sound?! 👂
Dreamboats coming, costumes abound! 🎉
Over 80 of you brilliant agents surprised us last night to view the performance in all kinds of costumes from the show!
Now, that’s how you execute a covert operation! 🥺💛
#operationinterestingman
We have news for you 🚨 you’ve been asking for eons on whether there’ll be an original Operation Mincemeat soundtrack and we’re now ready to say: yes there will be!
TODAY’S the day, Hester Leggatt’s plaque is being unveiled at the Fortune Theatre at 5.30pm🎉
Ahead of this we’ve got a busy morning on the wireless talking about how fans unearthed her identity…
So busy in fact, that we had to put the intelligence on a thread! Busy indeed!
"My far-and-away favorite production—and a complete surprise to me—was the musical 'Operation Mincemeat'"
Give this a read! 💛🫡 Thank you Helen Shaw and the
@NewYorker
Did they do it? THEY DID IT!!! ⚽️
Cograts to All The Ladies of the Lionesses for their win today on The Pitch and reaching their Glitzy Finale!!!
God They’re Brilliant.
#Lionesses
Well, we're nearing the end of 2023 and Colin Firth STILL hasn't made it to the Fortune. We've kept your sangria on ice all year, Colin. An admittedly arduous and chilly task for our theatre staff🧊
We may be forced to rename your box for
@HackedOffHugh
!👀
New intel from Ian Fleming intercepted. EXTENSION No.9 for Operation Mincemeat!!! Take a look at the obtained document below⬇️
Tickets on sale Friday 14 June 🎉
Happy International Women's Day!
Today we're thinking of Hester, and all the unsung heroes who get amazing things done!🌹
Thanks to the incredible research of some amazing fans, the real Hester Leggatt, and her contributions to Operation Mincemeat will never be forgotten.
A standing ovation please for the FULL cast for our upcoming run at the Fortune Theatre. We’re so pleased to be adding Geri Allen (
@GeriAllenActor
), Christian Andrews (
@christian_leeA
) Seán Carey (
@Seanannigans91
) and Holly Sumpton (
@hollysumpton
) to Team Mincemeat.
🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁... We're extending AGAIN!🎉
That's right, allies! Extension 7 is upon us! Be at the ready🫡
Tickets running through to the 22nd of Sep will go on sale Friday 22nd!
🎟:
It’s our first night! It’s our very first preview night! It’s our very first preview night at the Fortune Theatre and the show is sold out! Let’s get going on these previews then! We have our orders!
🚨 IMPORANT: OUR THEATRE HAS AIR CON.
Now we have your attention, there are STANDING TICKETS available for Monday and Tuesday evenings performances.
Stay hydrated - we hear sangria is refreshing.
🎟️:
🚨Splendid news, pals!🚨
On 31 August, the brilliant
@ReeceShearsmith
, co-creator and star of
@InsideNo9_
, Psychoville, League of Gentlemen and more, is hosting a 20 min Q&A after the show with the cast and creators of Operation Mincemeat! 🎉
🎟️:
Come on, Colin!
Over 100,000 ✨glitzy✨agents have made it to our show...
#MincemeatAlumni
include Robert de Niro, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Reece Shearsmith, Ian McKellen and Daisy Ridley. Yet the Colin Firth Box has a distinct lack of, well, Colin. Your Sangria is going flat 🫠
.
@PotterPayper
's album, Real Back In Style debuts at no.1 in the
#SpotifyCharts
❤️🔥
Spotify UK Song and Album Debuts 🇬🇧The Top 10 UK Song and Album Debuts from the past weekend (May 12 - 14)