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Jak Malone’s Guide to Singing the Best New Song on Broadway
“It makes me wonder if somebody somewhere has gone, ‘Yeah, we’ll give him a good go of it before he dies,’” the Operation Mincemeat star said.
Halfway into Broadway’s new WWII farce Operation Mincemeat, Hester Leggatt, a stern secretary, stops the show in its tracks with “Dear Bill.” The six-minute ode feels like a separate production from the rest of the musical — a true showstopper. Malone began the process as simply a superfan of the theater company SpitLip, which current cast members Natasha Hodgson, David Cumming, and Zoë Roberts were a part of. The production began at the 80-seat New Diorama Theatre in London in 2019, but, powered by word of mouth, Mincemeat took over bigger theaters, eventually landing on the West End and winning the Olivier Award for Best Musical, with Malone scoring Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
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