1967 - Half a Sixpence

Music and Lyrics by David Heneker

Book by Beverley Cross

Synopsis

The play opens in Shalford's Drapery Emporium where Kipps works and lives as an apprentice draper. Ann, Kipps's childhood sweetheart, is in service so they don't get much chance to see each other.

Kipps thinks that a lovers token might help the romance along but the next day brings news that is to change his life. He learns that solicitors are looking for him and consequently gets a little drunk. He is marched off to join his woodwork class run by Helen Walsingham. Kipps falls for her without much hope. Ann is cross with Kipps for not meeting her and walks out on him just before he learns that he has inherited a fortune.

Spurred on by his new social standing Kipps proposes to Helen, but her family pressure makes him realize that Ann is his first and real love. Kipps and Ann marry but his yearning to maintain his social standing creates problems between them which are only resolved when a fortune is lost. A small fortune is offered to him ... he rejects it. "What a rum do everything is," he comments.

Songs

• Economy
  
• Half a Sixpence
  
• Money To Burn
  
• I Don't Believe A Word Of It
  
• A Proper Gentleman
  
• She's Too Far Above Me
  
• If The Rain's Got To Fall
  
• The Old Military Canal
  
• The One Who's Run Away
  
• Long Ago
  
• Flash, Bang, Wallop!
  
• I Know What I Am - Ann
  
• The Party's On The House

Cast

Photos

Description	Photo	Contributed By
		Rod Crocket
		Rod Crocket
		Rod Crocket
		Rod Crocket

Memories

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Last modified: Wednesday, December 28, 2005