Half A Sixpence
Shows · Half A Sixpence
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 retu…
- Opened
- 1965
- Performances
- 512
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1965 | Broadhurst Theatre Original. April 25, 1965 · Gene Saks | 512 performances |
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Recordings 2 albums held
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30 passages naming Half A Sixpence, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Her greatest success came from staging dances for period shows, including the turn-of-the-century cakewalks and polkas of The Music Man, Take Me Along, and Half a Sixpence; her tangos, Lindy hops, and jitterbugs of Mame; and her stately stage pictures and gavottes of 1776. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p210
Rigby was also “defaced” from Half a Sixpence [1965] when he failed to come up with his share of the capitalization, although he eventually sued to get his name reinstated. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p675
The reception of the following financially profitable shows fell somewhere between mixed and favorable. All were flawed, perhaps, but there was usually at least one element that more than made up for the weaknesses. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p1072
Half a Sixpence, 53, 390-94, 538, 580, 653 book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p1136
Half a Sixpence 511 performances Opened April 25, 1965 Closed July 16, 1966 book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p463
Half a Sixpence 511 performances Opened April 25, 1965 Closed July 16, 1966 book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p463
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