Bye Bye Bytown

Bye Bye Bytown: The CD
Available July 1, 2007. Check out some song samples:

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Bye Bye Bytown is a thrilling musical ghost story about Lt. Col John By, the workers who built his Rideau Canal, and the men and women of Bytown who rallied together to prove that they could be more than just a rough-and-tumble frontier town…they could be the Capital of a nation!

The show is designed to bring the early history of Ottawa alive in a funny and energetic way for Canadians. It tells the story through the eyes of five modern-day teens who are whisked into the past by the ghost of Col. By.

Bye Bye Bytown, directed by Joshua McMillan and Laura Ewing Piper, and sponsored in part by the City of Ottawa, opened at Centrepointe Theatre in July 2005. The show was remounted to enthusiastic audiences July 2007 at the Ottawa Little Theatre as part of the 175th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Rideau Canal.

Comments from Bytown Fans

"I wanted you to know how impressed I was with Bye Bye Bytown. The music was terrific and was executed beautifully. What a wonderful way to tell history. I hope you will be able to perform it again in the school year. Teachers would love to book blocks of seats as class trips."

"We really enjoyed the production and were pleasantly surprised by the power of some of the scenes like ghosts and Malaria Aria. Well done and thank you."

"Congratulations to all the cast and crew of Bye Bye Bytown!!! What can I say? I so thoroughly enjoyed last night's show of Bye Bye Bytown."

"Here is the consensus and after much research, there is a massive outcry from not only the public, but the cast and crew, to do this show again ASAP!!!! Everybody had a ball being part of this truly incredible production. The research has been done, and the only way to fix this problem is … The show must go on. It must be performed again and again."

"Congratulations on a most successful Bye Bye Bytown. I attended three performances and each time came away from an evening giving me lots of fun and sheer enjoyment but also with a memory of emotions explored and plumbed to a deep level … I hope you can manage a subsequent production or two, please don't keep us waiting too long."