The run closed July 16, 1966
- Opened
- April 25, 1965
- Closed
- July 16, 1966
- Performances
- 512
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 48th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it79 named
Sean Allan
Norman Allen
Diane Blair
Sterling Clark
Fred Cline
Lynn Fields
Robert Gorman
Michele Hardy
Reby Howells
Rosanna Huffman
Robert Karl
Glenn Kezer
Reid Klein
John Knapp
Sally Lee
Mercer Mcleod
Constance Moffit
Max Norman
Alan Peterson
Louise Quick
Ann Rachel
Sally Ransone
Carol Richards
Trescott Ripley
Ron Schwinn
Bill Stanton
Ted Bloecher
Brown Bradley
Jean Cameron
Roger C Carmel
Susan Carr
Faith Compo
Patrick Cummings
Kathleen Doherty
Kathy Doherty
Barbara Dombre
Gwyda Donhowe
Rex Downey
Carl Esser
Joachim Fels
Marion Fels
Ben Gillespie
Jerry Grant
Margot Head
Sharon Herr
Loren Hightower
John D Irving
Richard Lyle
Alex Mackay
Charlise Mallory
Colette Melville
Consuelo Moran
Eric Paynter
Susan Platt
Remak Ramsay
Anne Rogers
Larry Roquemore
Bob Scherkenbach
Jeanne Shea
Stanley Simmonds
Pamela Simpson
Fabian Stuart
George Tregre
Robert Urquhart
Henrietta Valor
Mimi Wallace
Tony Wells
Lindybeth Wiles
Denise Winston
10 of these 79 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 69 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Gene Saks
- Choreographer
- Onna White
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awardscategories not held
0 wins from 3 nominations. Which categories is not on this record.
Around this production
Half a Sixpence is a 1963 musical comedy based on the 1905 novel Kipps by H. G. Wells, with music and lyrics by David Heneker and a book by Beverley Cross. It was written as a vehicle for British pop star Tommy Steele.
Half a Sixpence April 25, 1965 More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 1092
- Her greatest success came from staging dances for period shows, including the turn-of-the-century cakewalks and polkas of The Music Man, Take Me Along, and Half a Sixpence; her tangos, Lindy hops, and jitterbugs of Mame; and her stately stage pictures and gavottes of 1776. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 210
- Rigby was also “defaced” from Half a Sixpence [1965] when he failed to come up with his share of the capitalization, although he eventually sued to get his name reinstated. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 675
- The reception of the following financially profitable shows fell somewhere between mixed and favorable. All were flawed, perhaps, but there was usually at least one element that more than made up for the weaknesses. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 1072
- Half a Sixpence, 53, 390-94, 538, 580, 653 More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 1136
- Half a Sixpence 511 performances Opened April 25, 1965 Closed July 16, 1966 Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 463
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Half A Sixpence at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.