OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL
Operation Mincemeat is the 2024 Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical. It’s London’s biggest hit with 74 Five-Star reviews, making it the best-reviewed show in West End history! It has been hailed by Peter Marks in The Washington Post as “the year’s funniest musical.”
The year is 1943 and we’re losing the war. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse.
Singin’ in the Rain meets Strangers on a Train, Operation Mincemeat is the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the twisted secret mission that won us World War II.
Lauded by the UK’s Daily Mirror as “part Mel Brooks, part SIX, part Hamilton with a side order of One Man, Two Guvnors.”
Operation Mincemeat Broadway Tickets
HISTORY
The John Golden Theatre was originally built in 1927 as the Theatre Masque by real-estate magnates, the Chanin Brothers, as part of a three-theatre complex that also included the Royale (a mid-sized house) and the Majestic (a large house). The Theatre Masque, the most intimate of the three, was designed for serious dramas. In 1930, the Chanins transferred ownership of all three venues to the Shuberts. In 1937, when John Golden assumed its management, he renamed it after himself, the third playhouse to bear his name. The Shuberts took back control of the theatre in 1946, turning it into a film house for two years before restoring it to legitimacy in the late 1940s.
ARCHITECTURE
The Chanins hired the Shuberts’ favorite architect, Herbert J. Krapp, to design their three-theatre complex. The Golden’s interior has a Spanish influence, an example of the Mission Revival style popular on the West Coast. Interior features include rough plaster walls, wrought iron fixtures, spiraled columns, and ceiling arches.
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Details on the Golden Theatre's Accessibility
Access Information
Theatre is not completely wheelchair accessible. There are no steps into the theatre (where there are steps we are unable to provide assistance).
Shubert Audience Services
The Golden Theatre provides accommodations for patrons who are blind, deaf, partially sighted, and/or have hearing loss. The theatre provides infrared assistive listening devices for every performance at the theatre. In addition, beginning four weeks after a show’s official opening night performance, hand-held audio description devices, hand-held captioning devices, and unlimited access to downloadable audio description and/or captioning for personal mobile devices are all available free of charge. Prior thereto, we offer live-caption via CART using a hand-held device, upon request with two-weeks’ advance notice. For assistance, or If you have questions, contact Shubert Audience Services at 212-944-3700 or audienceservices@shubertorg.com. There is also a representative at the Shubert Audience Services kiosk at every performance to assist any patron with any of our devices, software, or technology. Hand-held devices are limited, although additional devices can be obtained with at least twenty-four hours’ notice.
Accessibility by Seating Section
Orchestra: Seating is accessible to all parts of the orchestra without steps. Wheelchair seating is in the orchestra only.
Mezzanine: Located on the second level, up three flights of stairs, 28 steps. Once on the Mezzanine level there are approximately 2 steps per row. Entrance to the Mezzanine is behind row D.
Handrails: Available at the end of every stepped seat row in the Mezzanine.
Wheelchair | Companion Seat Locations:
Orchestra: E102 | E101, D101-102; E104 | E105, D103-104; O102 | O103, N101-102 | E120 | E119, D119-120; E122 | E123, D121-122
Aisle Seat with Folding Armrest | Companion Locations:
Orchestra: K2 | K4; L1 | L3, L101 | L102
Elevators/Escalator
None Available
Restroom
Not wheelchair accessible. Restrooms located down 2 flights of steps (down 19 steps to lower level.) Wheelchair accessible restrooms located in the Schoenfeld Theatre.
Water Fountain
Located in the lower lobby.
Theatre Policies
The use of cameras, recording devices, cell phones, beepers, and other electronic devices during the performance is prohibited, except as permitted for accessibility services. Everyone attending a performance must have a ticket. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of management. Wheelchair and mobility-impaired seating is intended for patrons with mobility disabilities. Children under the age of four years will not be admitted. No outside food or beverage permitted, unless medically necessary. No weapons permitted on the premises.
The theatre's premiere production was the not-so-successful Puppets of Passion (1927) by Rosso di San Secondo. The Shuberts had a few successes at the theatre in the 1930s, including Louder Please (1931) starring Louise Brooks, Goodbye Again (1932) with James Stewart, andTobacco Road (1933), which was such a triumph it had to be moved to a larger venue. John Golden had less success, producing only one significant hit, Angel Street (1941).
The Golden was home to many significant playwrights and productions throughout the 1950s and 60s. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1956) had its Broadway premiere here, starring Bert Lahr. An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May opened in 1960, followed by Beyond the Fringe (1962), and a South African musical revue entitled Wait a Minim! (1966).
Some distinguished plays of the 1970s include David Rabe’s Sticks & Bones (1972), the Shubert-produced, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Gin Game (1977), directed by Mike Nichols and starring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. Tommy Tune’s A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine (1980) began the 1980s with a bang. The Golden then played home to three more Pulitzer Prize winners: Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart (1981), Marsha Norman’s ‘night Mother (1983), produced by the Shuberts and starring Kathy Bates, and David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross (1984).
The 90s brought the Golden Theatre shows such as Falsettos (1992) by William Finn and James Lapine, Terrence McNally’s Master Class (1995) starring Zoe Caldwell as opera diva Maria Callas and Audra McDonald as her student, Side Man (1998). The new century ushered in notable productions of Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002), the Tony-winning musical, Avenue Q (2003), by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty, the Tony Award-winning Best Play Red (2010), the Tony Award-winning revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, Seminar (2011) with Alan Rickman, and the Tony Award-winning Best Play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2013). In 2014 Glenn Close and John Lithgow returned to Broadway in the revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, followed by the Tony winning Skylight, James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson in The Gin Game, and Lupita Nyong'o in Eclipsed. Glenda Jackson returned to Broadway in 2018 in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, followed by The Waverly Gallery (2018) marking the return of Elaine May.
THEATRE SPECS
Golden Theatre
252 West 45th Street
Between Broadway and 8th Avenue
New York NY 10036
| Year Built |
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1927 |
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| Seating Capacity |
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| Orchestra |
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465 |
| Front Mezzanine |
|
110 |
| Rear Mezzanine |
|
227 |
| Total |
|
802 |
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| Included in Numbers Above: |
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| Orchestra Pit |
|
15 |
| Wheelchair |
|
5 |
| Aisle Transfer Arm |
|
9 |
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| Theatre Dimensions |
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| Proscenium Opening: |
30' 6" |
| Height of Proscenium: |
24' 0" |
| Depth to proscenium: |
24' 9" |
| Depth to front of stage: |
27' 5" |
| Stage Type: |
Proscenium |
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SEATING CHART
