HALF A SIXPENCE is now playing at the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End, following rave reviews and a record-breaking run in Chichester. Cameron Mackintosh and Chichester Festival Theatre's critically acclaimed hit musical is adapted for the stage from H.G. Wells’s semi-autobiographical novel Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul.
Arthur Kipps, an orphan and over-worked draper’s assistant at the turn of the last century, who unexpectedly inherits a fortune that propels him into high society. His childhood companion, Ann Pornick, watches with dismay as Arthur is made over in a new image by the beautiful and classy Helen Walsingham. Both young women undoubtedly love Arthur – but which of them should he listen to? With the help of his friends, Arthur learns that if you want to have the chance of living the right life, you need to make the right choices...