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One of Canadas most successful and enduring musical plays, was first published in 1982 and went on to win the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award and the Governor Generals Award for Drama. In 2010, the celebrated story of the World War I flying ace credited with seventy-two victories and billed as the top pilot in the British Empire was revised to frame the original play as a retrospective. It is the same play it always was the difference is in the telling. Billy Bishop now appears in his later years, reflecting on his wartime exploits, and on the business of war and hero making. Bishops reminiscence is not so much about the horror and death of war as it is about being young and intensely alive. The prime of life / The best of men, Bishop sings, It will never be / Like this again.