Flying Ducks Youth Theatre, Half A Sixpence, Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, March 25 to 27 (From York Press)

Flying Ducks Youth Theatre, Half A Sixpence, Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, March 25 to 27

3:00pm Friday 19th March 2010 in

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Flying Ducks Youth Theatre will perform the northern amateur premiere of the revised stage musical Half A Sixpence at Joseph Rowntree Theatre next week.

The musical is best known for the 1967 British film starring Tommy Steele, and the Flying Ducks show will feature 18-year-old Sam Whyte, from Haxby, in Steele’s chirpy, social-climbing lead role of young orphan Arthur Kipps. Further principal parts go to Vicky Beaumont as childhood sweetheart Ann, Dan Slater as Chitterlow and Harriet Sissons as Kipps’s new love, Helen.

The Flying Ducks show is directed by Stephen Outhwaite, who is joined in the production team by choreographers Nicola Elliot and Sophie Roberts and musical director Clark Howard.

Now in its 14th year, Flying Ducks has more than 40 members, aged 11 to 18, who meet every week to prepare for their annual performances.

Last year, the company staged Hood – The Musical, and now the members are rehearsing for Beverley Cross and David Heneker’s Half A Sixpence, whose big numbers include Flash, Bang, Wallop!, If The Rain’s Got to Fall, the rousing Money To Burn and the title song.

Performances of this family musical will start at 7.30pm on March 25 and 26, then 2.30pm and 7.30pm on March 27. For tickets, phone Michael Whyte on 01904 768963.