Billy
Bishop Goes To War
Written and Composed by
John
Gray
in Collaboration with
Eric Peterson
"The further backward you can
look,
the further forward you can see."
--Winston Churchill
Billy Bishop Goes to War
is based on a true story, and all of the people and events described in
the play are historically documented.
SCENE
1941
A
Veterans' Hall in Ontario.
1914-1918
Various
locations in Canada, England, France,
and the skies over the
Western Front.
SONGS
ACT I
We Were Off to Fight the Hun
December
Nights
Champagne and Vermouth
Nobody Shoots No One in
Canada
Lady St. Helier
Flying Canadian
In
the Sky
ACT II
The
Bold Aviator
The Lovely Helene
Friends Ain't Supposed
to Die
How Can You go Back Home
The Empire Soire
They
Were Off to Fight the Hun
In the Sky (Reprise)
With
Special Thanks to
Burbank Chamber of
Commerce, City of Burbank, Jeff Corum, Pomodoro Cucina Italiano, Heidi
Cundle, Matthew Hoffman
Linda M. Tross, Wadler Data Systems,
Inc., Eleanor Wood
The Colony would like to
acknowledge
the support and assistance of:
Roger Cusumano, Vic Georgino,
Michael Hastings, Jack O'Neill, Sunder Ramani