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HALF A SIXPENCE - May 1974
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 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 realise 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.
Broadway opening April 25 1965.
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| Kipps |
Derek Knight |
| Sid Pornick |
Tony Willcocks |
| Buggins |
Christopher Grist |
| Pearce |
Jim Packer |
| Mr Shalford |
Bill Coulstock |
| Flo Bates |
Josie Beckwith |
| Victoria |
Betty Smith |
| Emma |
Jean Brown |
| Kate |
June Evans |
| Mr Carshot |
Bill Stone |
| Mrs Botting |
Queenie Walker |
| Mrs Walsingham |
Muriel Alford |
| Ann Pornick |
Joan Rowe |
| Chitterlow |
Tony Peyton-Bruhl |
| Helen Walsingham |
Ann Peyton-Bruhl |
| Young Walsingham |
Peter Latham |
| Ladies of the Chorus |
Audrey Blow, Janet Blow, Myra Clark, Hilda Coulstock, Marian Ellerton, Pat Hazelgrove, June Jones, Myra Jones, Beth Moores, Sarah Sitch, Barbara Smith, Barbara Thwaites, Sandra Tucker, Midge Wallace, Jill Walton, Marie Willcocks |
| Dancers |
Sonia Atkinson, Daphne Barnes, Jean Brown, Sara Foster, Carole Gennings, Irene Hind, Julie John, Ann McCarter |
| Gentlemen of the Chorus |
Peter Blow, Ron Brown, Graham Bryant, Ray Cappi, Bob Cartwright, John Clark, Stephen Clark, Jim Dyer, John Golding, Denis Jones, Ed O'Keefe, Len Packer, Jerry Parkes, Jeffrey Peyton-Bruhl, Dave Rogers, Mike Walsh |
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| Producer & Choreographer |
Audrey Pring |
| Musical Director |
Brian Eastop |
| Official Accompanist |
Des Stone, John Evans |
| Stage Manager |
Bill Legg |
| Sound and Lighting |
Bill Goodchild, Peter Hayward |
| Scenic Artists |
Ann Peyton-Bruhl, Allan Prosser |
| Stage Crew |
Allan Prosser, Richard Hazelgrove, Duncan McClellan, Trevor Willcocks |
| Wardrobe |
Kay Packer |
| Properties |
Marian Brooks, Edna McRae |
| Ticket Control |
Vera Butler |
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