Dronfield Light Opera Group

Half A Sixpence 2010

 

Shop owner Mr Shalford (David Allen) inspects his staff before the shop opens

 

'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

 

Kipps meets up with his childhood sweetheart Ann (Andrea Ryder-Smith), with whom he exchanged a half-sixpence love token many years ago

 

Young Walsingham (Gavin Ward) persuades Shalford to volunteer Kipps to attend his sister's woodwork evening class

 

Kipps meets up with playwright Chitterlow, (David Pierce), who suggests (from a newspaper announcement) that Kipps might have been left an inheritance

 

A drunken Kipps arrives at the woodwork class, much to the consternation of Miss Helen Walsingham (Lindsay Ashmore)

 

Chitterlow tells a flabbergasted Kipps that he is now a rich man!!

 

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

 

Kipps deepens his involvement with Helen and the Walsinghams, encountering a rather difficult deck-chair attendant (Austen Smith)

 

The cricket match, in which Kipps is constrained to join the Gentlemen in the match against the common Players

 

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

 

Ann and Kipps are married -'Flash, Bang, Wallop!! - and Kipps then builds up his new life, and a fortune, again