 A big break came for Caine when he was cast as Meff in James Saunders' Cockney comedy "Next Time I'll Sing To You", when this play was presented at the New Arts Theatre in London on 23 January 1963.Scenes from the play's performance were featured in the April 1963 issue of "Theatre World" magazine.When this play moved to the Criterion in Piccadilly with Michael Codron directing, he was visited backstage by Stanley Baker, one of the four stars in Caine's first film, "A Hill in Korea", who told him about the part of a Cockney private in his upcoming film "Zulu", a film Baker was producing and starring in.