Kipps, the new Half a Sixpence Musical

About the show

By arrangement with Cameron Mackintosh, Winterbourne Musical Theatre presents Kipps, the new Half a Sixpence musical, an updated version of the 1960s show Half a Sixpence by Beverley Cross and David Heneker, based on H.G. Wells’s novel Kipps: The Story Of A Simple Soul.
Kipps was brought up by his aunt and uncle in Kent at the end of the Victorian era. Just before he leaves home at 14 to begin an apprenticeship in fashionable Folkestone, he asks his childhood friend Ann to be his girl. She agrees.They split a sixpence and each keep half as a token, but then do not see each other for 7 years. Kipps is an ordinary, naive lad who simply dreams of an easier life and of buying a banjo. When he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he is suddenly propelled into high society and he struggles desperately to learn the etiquette and rules of polite society. And he soon discovers that becoming a 'true gentleman' is neither as easy nor as desirable as it at first appears.
This rags-to-riches story of money, class and love, set in the early 20th century at a time of great social change, is a joyous journey filled with with gentle comedy and musical favourites including the well-known songs Half a Sixpence and Money to Burn, and the riotous Flash, Bang, Wallop.
The show runs from Wed 13 May - Friday 15 May at 7.30pm, and on Sat 16 May at 2.30pm, at WADCA. Free parking. Tickets online or phone from Ticketsource.
An amateur production by arrangement with Music Theatre International.