Half a Sixpence to air on SkyTV

I think its something to do with licencing.
It's a reimagined version with additional songs, although it wasn't called Kipps in the West End so it's a bit strange.

Well I guess it’s a good thing that this charmless version doesn’t taint the name of the original now it’s called something else. I just do not get the positivity towards this. It’s absolutely terrible. All of the orchestrations just sound like Mary Poppins and Stemp is no more than a very efficient Chorus boy. The editing also renders it almost unwatchable.

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Although I loved the original film with Tommy Steele I thoroughly enjoyed watching this musical version. The whole cast were very good and particularly Charlie Stemp who was excellent and who knew Geoff from Corrie could sing 😅 Will definitely be watching this again.

If you’d gone to the Noel Coward Theatre a few months before Half a Sixpence opened you would have seen Ian Bartholomew showing off a lot more than just his singing in Mrs Henderson Presents…

It is on again on Saturday I believe

Don't think so, but it's shown again at:

3pm, Sat 1st January, Sky Arts. 

So record and watch again as much as you like. 

Same as with Anything Goes, it seemed over acted all round, especially the comedy, not just Charlie Stemp. To be fair no doubt so it could be seen throughout the theatre. The whole production was very busy , made worse by the editing . But nevertheless a tour de force by all the cast who kept that pace up performance after performance. Charlie Stemp was very impressive , on stage more or less throughout , a wonderfully joyous performance, and a terrific dancer . The camp photographer at the end was just cheap , not funny, and not acceptable. As for the musical itself, it could do with a few more memorable songs, and the set wasn’t very imaginative or interesting.

Watched it when it aired. As someone who never got the chance to see this when it was playing at the Noel Coward and has performed in a college production (using the Warner Brown script), I was looking forward to finally watching this production. I knew this version was different to previous versions and that it ended at the wedding, so I was curious as to how it would stack up.

Overall, I really enjoyed it, even though storywise I think I prefer the previous versions. The acting, singing, music and choreography were all top notch! Charlie Stemp was delightful as Kipps and Ian Bartholomew as Chitterlow was a personal favourite of mine throughout. But my reasoning for preferring the previous versions of the musical (like the Warner Brown one) is that I feel that ending at Kipps and Ann's wedding feels a bit too abrupt. Previous versions had more story afterwards, showing that even though Kipps has realised how much of a prat he was to Ann, money has still changed him, but not for the better. He still thinks that it can buy him happiness, until he loses it all and realises that he's been a plonker and learns his lesson. This newer version seems to somewhat neglect this and to me at least, it didn't feel like Kipps fully learnt his lesson.

But despite this, I still had a good time with this and if you want to watch a feel good old school British musical, then this is for you.