Half a Sixpence

• Original London Production (1963)
  London, England
• Broadway Production (1965)
  New York, NY
• First National Tour (1966)
• Second National Tour (1966)
• Kenley Players Production (1967)
• Music Fair Circuit Production (1967)
• Film Version (1967)
• UK Tour (2007)
• Musicals Tonight! Concert (2008)
  New York, NY
• Goodspeed Production (2008)
  East Haddam, CT

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Original score

• All in the Cause of Economy
• Half a Sixpence
• Money to Burn
• The Oak and the Ash
• She's Too Far Above Me
• I'm Not Talking to You
• A Proper Gentleman
• If the Rain's Got to Fall
• The Old Military Canal
• Hip, Hip, Hoorah!
• The One That's Run Away
• Long Ago
• Flash, Bang, Wallop!
• I Know What I Am
• I'll Build a Palace
• I Only Want a Little House

Added to Broadway production

• The Party's on the House

Added to film version

• I Don't Believe a Word of It
• Lady Botting's Boating Regatta Cup Racing Song (The Race Is On)
  • aka Lady Botting's Boating Regatta Cup Racing Song [no note]
  • aka The Race is On [no note]
• This Is My World

Based on Kipps by H. G. Wells

Set in 1900 in the seaside town of Folkestone in southeast England, the plot concerns Arthur Kipps, an illegitimate draper’s apprentice who had been raised by an aunt and uncle. When he inherits a fortune with a yearly income, his life is upended. He forsakes his childhood sweetheart, Ann Pornick, when he falls for Helen Walsingham, an educated young woman from a pretentious, formerly upper-middle-class family. Helen’s lawyer brother takes change of investing Artie’s money.

Artie comes to realize that it is Ann he truly loves, and he breaks his engagement to Helen. Artie and Ann marry. News comes that Helen’s brother has disappeared after having lost Artie’s fortune through bad investments.

Artie and Ann open a small bookshop in the house they had bought before the fortune was lost. They are getting by financially, if hardly prospering, primarily by lending penny-dreadfuls at tuppence a day. Most important, they are happy. Suddenly, Harry Chitterlow, an eccentric actor-playwright, shows up with good news. It was Chitterlow who, through a coincidence, had alerted Artie to his inheritance. Artie then invested in a play that Chitterlow had written, which he was having trouble getting produced. The play has now been produced with great success. Thanks to his investment in the play, Artie will again be prosperous. We trust he will also be wiser, thanks to Ann’s love and common sense, and his own past experiences that have taught him to be content with who he is.

• Kipps (source material)