An award-winning musical is coming to Aylesbury next summer, following a recent announcement.

It has been confirmed that the Tony and double Olivier Award-winning hit musical Operation Mincemeat is coming to Aylesbury’s Waterside Theatre in July 2027.

Aylesbury is one of the locations being served during the UK leg of a global tour and performances will be held at the Waterside from July 20-24.

Other countries where the Second World War play will be showcased include Australia, China, Mexico and New Zealand.

Operation Mincemeat left to right is Charlotte Hanna-Williams, Jamie-Rose Monk, Seán Carey, Holly Sumpton and Christian Andrews. Photo: Matt Crockett

placeholder image — Operation Mincemeat left to right is Charlotte Hanna-Williams, Jamie-Rose Monk, Seán Carey, Holly Sumpton and Christian Andrews. Photo: Matt Crockett

Given the show’s popularity it is also continuing a West End run at the Fortune Theatre until May 2027. Performances of the musical comedy have been booked at the West End for five consecutive years with Broadway shows entering a third milestone.

Operation Mincemeat takes place in 1943 as the Allies are losing the war. Luckily, we're about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse, a tagline for the musical jokes. Operation Mincemeat is the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the twisted secret mission that won the Allies World War II, it adds.

The musical entertainingly asks how did a well dressed corpse wrong-foot Hitler?

Operation Mincemeat began as a tiny production at the London Fringe Diorama Theatre in 2019. It was after a series of sold-out runs that it was brought to the West End four years later.

It won the Olivier and WhatsOnStageAwards for 'Best New Musical', alongside garnering 181 five-star reviews. Operation Mincemeat was a real 1943 military operation that was brought to life in a 2021 feature starring Colin Firth.

Cunning British intelligence officers and military personnel were able to trick the Nazis into deploying forces in Greece and Sardinia, rather than Sicily where the Allied forces were really launching an offensive.

Details of the operation were also the subject of a non-fiction book from Ben Macintyre.

The musical is written by triple Tony Award nominees SpitLip (David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoe Roberts) and directed by deputy artistic director at the National Theatre, Olivier Award nominated Robert Hastie.

Ticketing information for the upcoming shows in Aylesbury can be found online here.