Half A Sixpence 2010 |
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Shop owner Mr Shalford (David Allen) inspects his staff before the shop opens |
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'A Normal Working Day' - sung by (L-R) Kipps (Ed Hodd), Buggins (Denis Morrell), Pearce (Matt Roberts), Flo (Sara Hibberd), Kate (Karen Thompson), Victoria (Julie Ballin), and the chorus |
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Kipps meets up with his childhood sweetheart Ann (Andrea Ryder-Smith), with whom he exchanged a half-sixpence love token many years ago |
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Young Walsingham (Gavin Ward) persuades Shalford to volunteer Kipps to attend his sister's woodwork evening class |
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Kipps meets up with playwright Chitterlow, (David Pierce), who suggests (from a newspaper announcement) that Kipps might have been left an inheritance |
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A drunken Kipps arrives at the woodwork class, much to the consternation of Miss Helen Walsingham (Lindsay Ashmore) |
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Chitterlow tells a flabbergasted Kipps that he is now a rich man!! |
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Kipps is now attracted to Helen and meets the social climber, Mrs Walsingham (Aida Banfield) and her rascally son, the young Walsingham, who eventually steals Kipps' money |
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Kipps deepens his involvement with Helen and the Walsinghams, encountering a rather difficult deck-chair attendant (Austen Smith) |
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The cricket match, in which Kipps is constrained to join the Gentlemen in the match against the common Players |
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Ann and Kipps get together again when Kipps' new world falls about his ears on losing all his money, realising that he does not belong in the Walsingham world |
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Ann and Kipps are married -'Flash, Bang, Wallop!! - and Kipps then builds up his new life, and a fortune, again |