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HALF A SIXPENCE - April 1989
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 |
Tony Bryant |
| Ann Pornick |
Jacquie Prentice |
| Mr Shalford |
Tony Willcocks |
| Mr Carshot |
Tony Doye |
| Mrs Botting |
Queenie Walker |
| Mrs Walsingham |
Val Simpson |
| Chitterlow |
Guy Smither |
| Laura |
Carole Gennings |
| Helen Walsingham |
Amanda Upperton |
| Young Walsingham |
Mike Dore |
| Gwendolin |
Sue Wright |
| Shopgirls |
Julie Bryant, Mary-Rose Austin, Jane Grinaway, Kate Davey |
| Shopboys |
Steve Clark, David Birt, Mike Naylor, Brian Sweatman |
| Ladies Chorus |
Joan Budd, Jackie Candler, Sue Goldsmith, Nicola Hayden, Debbie Hole, June Jones, Yvonne Jenkins, Julie Mitchell, Pat Pring, Barbara Sturdy, Margaret Thorpe, Sandra Tucker, Joyce Upton, Marie Willcocks |
| Gentlemen's Chorus |
Brian Bayford, Bryden Baker, Ray Cappi, Don Gordon, Paul Hodge, Cliff Jones, Karl Pullen, Lyndsay Richardson, Fraser Richardson, Brian Stenning, Trevor Sivyer, Colin Watts, Robert Wood, John Waldron |
| Dancers |
Margaret McIntyre, Carole Stallard, Linda Smither, Kate Thornhill, Jill Tilt, Becky White, Daphne Watts |
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| Producer & Choreographer |
Audrey Pring |
| Musical Director |
Alan Pring |
| Official Accompanist |
Marion Sawyer |
| Stage Manager |
Colin D Justice |
| Assistant Stage Manager |
Frank Watson |
| Stage Crew |
Peter Hutchings, Chris Robinson, Fred McKee |
| Sound |
Peter Mitchell |
| Property Mistress |
Sheila Justice |
| Property Assistants |
Sarah Brotherstone, Sarah Maycock, Sarah Cordell |
| Wardrobe Co-ordinator |
Carole Gennings |
| Wardrobe Assistant |
Mike Dore |
| Publicity |
Fraser Richardson |
| Front of House Photographs |
Ivan Saunders |
| Ticket Controller |
Anita Waterhouse |
| Ticket Assistant |
Pat Wallace |
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