Edu-tainment

I must be the only person alive to have visited Vancouver's Storyeum, touted as "edu-tainment in the heart of historic gastown" over 13 times in its heyday. Anyone who visited me during the time I lived there was treated to a visit to Storyeum. It was intended to be a big draw during the Olympics as the final installment of the whole tour was a rousing homage to Vancouver's Olympic spirit, but alas, it didn't live to see it. Unfortunately, there were many things wrong both on stage and off, (though it was fantastic model for the arts - full time employment for actors?? unheard of in Canada!)and it finally went bankrupt before I had the gumption to purchase that cd in the giftshop of all the songs. At the time I didn't need it, when you see a performance over 13 times I garauntee you I had those ditties on repeat in my head for ages. I don't so much anymore. What was Storyeum? It was a live performance tour of Canada's history, touching on treatment of Chinese Railway workers, the Gold Rush's British mail order brides and the Suffregette movement, all with a rousing song and toe tapping dance to go with it. I should probably mention that some of the more insensitive material was removed early on, but it still had an eye rolling WTF vibe to it. One day, I would like to remount Storyeum, as a one man show (the way Canadians are meant to see theatre), complete with the tankard juggling, the punch and judy show, and the real train engine... In the meantime, I will have to be content with endevering to do for laundry, what Storyeum did for history; bring this museum of my wardrobe to life.