Billy Bishop Goes to War - Softcover

" Billy Bishop is a high-flying ace of a show, capturing the humour, the hellfire and the derring-do of an extraordinary career ... The score is filled with vintage replicas of the kind of songs that sent men rushing in--and out--of battle. There are martial airs, barracksroom ditties, Kiplingesque tunes of glory, Gilbert and Sullivan-like patter songs and also a bitter brew of Brecht-Weill."
-- New York Times

" Billy Bishop Goes to War is a delightful--and cunningly wrought--work of art."
-- New Yorker

"A landmark of the Canadian theatre ... John Gray's success with Billy Bishop lies in the universality of the human individual--a universality that works precisely because Gray has kept the show on one-individual terms. He creates and deflates the hero myth in the same gesture."
-- Vancouver Sun

Billy Bishop Goes to War ranks as one of Canada’s most successful and endearing musical dramas in history. The Governor General’s Award-winning musical documents the glorious World War I exploits of Canadian flying ace Billy Bishop.