Shows · Half A Sixpence

Half A Sixpence

Opened 1965

512 performances

Musical, Revolution

Tommy Steele, who was in the 1965 production. Karl Heinz Hernried

Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to a draper's shop in turn-of-the-century England, unexpectedly inherits a fortune. Before his windfall, he had broken a sixpence with his childhood sweetheart Ann Pornick as a token of love. Now wealthy, Arthur is seduced by the pretentious world of high society and becomes engaged to Helen Walsingham, a woman above his station. After being swindled out of his fortune, Arthur returns to Ann and discovers that happiness lies not in money but in true love.

Music: David Heneker
Lyrics: David Heneker
Book: Beverley Cross

Productions1 on Broadway

1965

Broadhurst TheatreBroadway Original, opened April 25, 1965, directed by Gene Saks

512 performances

Recordings 2 recordings

Half a Sixpence

1968

Half a Sixpence RCA Victor LSO-1146, released 1968

Canada

Half a Sixpence is a 1963 musical comedy based on the 1905 novel Kipps by H. G. Wells, with music and lyrics by David Heneker and a book by Beverley Cross. It was written as a vehicle for British pop star Tommy Steele.

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