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Broadway’s ‘Operation Mincemeat’ Recruits Original London Cast
The original London cast (David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Jak Malone and Zoë Roberts) will reprise their roles for Broadway.
When Operation Mincemeat, the lauded West End musical comedy, begins previews on Broadway this February, the original London cast will be reprising their acclaimed performances for New York audiences. Producers announced today that the original cast members – David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Olivier Award-winner Jak Malone and Zoë Roberts – will reprise their roles for the Broadway production. Written and composed by the comedy troupe SpitLip (Cumming, Hodgson, Roberts and Felix Hagan), the musical is inspired by an actual event from World War II, in which Allied Forces used the corpse of a civilian to stage a deception operation in which false military plans were placed in the pockets of the dead body for Axis military to find.
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