Photos: Dylan Mulvaney, Samuel L. Jackson, Julie Klausner, More Hit the Yellow Carpet at Operation Mincemeat Opening Night on Broadway | Playbill

Opening Night Photos: Dylan Mulvaney, Samuel L. Jackson, Julie Klausner, More Hit the Yellow Carpet at Operation Mincemeat Opening Night on Broadway

The Olivier-winning musical from U.K. comedy group SpitLip opened at the John Golden Theatre March 20.

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Laughter was in the air, and fashion was fashioning at the March 20 opening night for Broadway's Operation Mincemeat, a transfer from the work's Olivier-winning West End bow. Dylan Mulvaney, Samuel L. Jackson, Julie Klausner, Jesse Eisenberg, and more hit the yellow carpet to celebrate the new show, along with its cast and creatives, all reprising their work from the original London production. See photos from the starry evening in the gallery below.

To see what critics are saying about the show, click here.

The show tells a wacky, stranger-than-fiction story that is somehow a completely true tale, following a World War II scheme in which British Intelligence officials dressed up a corpse as an officer in the Royal Marines in order to fool the German government into believing an Allied attack on Sicily was imminent, covering up their true plans to invade Greece and Sardinia in the process. Spoiler alert—it actually worked.

READ: Can War Be Hilarious? Operation Mincemeat Hopes So

Photos: Operation Mincemeat Opens on Broadway

The musical is the work of U.K. comedy group SpitLip, which comprises David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts. Cumming, Hodgson, and Roberts are all performing in the show, too, while Hagan, who took the lead on the project's music, remains out of the footlights.

They're joined in the cast by Claire-Marie Hall as Jean Leslie and Jak Malone as Hester Leggatt, with Cumming as Charles Cholmondeley, Hodgson as Ewen Montagu, and Roberts as Johnny Bevan. All five are reprising their performances from the musical's 2023 West End debut, and all making their Broadway debuts with the performance. Malone won a 2024 Olivier Award for his performance, alongside the show's Best New Musical win.

Understudies Brandon Contreras, Sam Hartley, Jessi Kirtley, Gerianne Pérez, and Amanda Jill Robinson round out the company. Casting is by Carrie Gardner of C12 Casting. U.K. casting is by Pearson Casting.

Also back for the Broadway bow is director Robert Hastie, who's reunited his full London creative team, including choreographer Jenny Arnold, music director and supervisor Joe Bunker, orchestrator Steve Sidwell, set and costume designer Ben Stones, lighting designer Mark Henderson, and sound designer Mike Walker. Karen Moore serves as production stage manager.

Visit OperationBroadway.com.

 
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