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In an era of global musicals, Half a Sixpence is distinctly British by Michael Billington

A refurbished version of the 1963 Tommy Steele vehicle has opened in the West End and joins a string of stellar homegrown hitsIt is an odd, but intriguing, fact that Oh! What a Lovely War and Half a Sixpence opened within two days of each other in 1963. On the face of it, you could hardly have two musicals more radically different.One is an ensemble piece attacking the horrendous sacrifice of life in the first world …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM on November 23, 2016

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