half a sixpence review - fellowes rewrite has flash but no soul /

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Chichester festival theatre
Julian Fellowes’s re
boot of the Tommy Steele rags-to-riches musical is efficient and brims with cosy nostalgia but oddly charmless

Related: The cult of Tommy Steele: From the archive,11 June 1957 HG Wells knew all about upward social mobility. His father was a failed shopkeeper, his mother a domestic servant and he spent a depressing year as a draper’s assistant in Southsea before his fortunes were changed by his success as a writer.
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Source: theguardian.com