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Operation Mincemeat rush, lottery & cheap tickets
Every legitimate cheap-seat tactic for Operation Mincemeat on Broadway — with the realistic odds, prices, and the small print. No paywalled "premium tier" nonsense; just the public-facing routes ranked.
Operation Mincemeat is a 145-minute musical at the 805-seat John Golden Theatre. It opened in 2025 and is in its open run. Multiple cheap-seat routes are in play: an official lottery, an in-person rush, and TKTS booth eligibility.
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$39 Rush.Telecharge.com lottery
2 tickets per winner
- Platform
- Rush.Telecharge.com
- Price
- $39 per ticket
- Entry window
- Daily, 12:00 AM the day before each performance through 3:00 PM the day before.
- Draw / notification
- Drawings at 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM the day before each performance.
- Quantity limit
- Up to 2 per winner
Two daily draws make this lottery one of the more enterable on Broadway. Pickup at the Golden Theatre with photo ID.
Enter the Operation Mincemeat lottery →$49 box-office rush
Up to 2 per buyer
- Format
- In-person at the box office
- Price
- $49 per ticket
- Opens
- 10:00 AM (Monday–Saturday), 12:00 PM (Sunday)
- How to enter
- Show up at the Golden Theatre box office (252 W 45th St) when it opens. First-come, first-served.
- Quantity limit
- Up to 2 per buyer
$49 in-person rush. The $39 digital lottery is cheaper if you can plan a day ahead.
Get directions to the box office →Same-day discounts at TKTS
Typically 20–50% off face value
Operation Mincemeat has appeared at the TKTS booth (Times Square, Lincoln Center and the Lower Manhattan locations) — same-day discounts of roughly 20–50% off face value. Appearance and discount level vary day-to-day; shorter-running shows and weekday performances are the better bets.
See today's TKTS list →The realistic playbook
- Enter the lottery first. Lowest price, zero effort. Set a daily reminder; the entry windows are unforgiving.
- Line up early for rush on a non-lottery day. Weekday performances are the friendliest.
- TKTS is the fallback. Same-day, in-person — head to the Times Square booth around 3 PM for evening shows.
- If all else fails, compare the resale market on the main Operation Mincemeat page — sometimes resale dips below face for less-popular performances.