focuses on Mike Sokolowski, a Ukrainian immigrant from Galicia who was killed by Royal North-West Mounted Police on "Bloody Saturday", 21 June 1919.
On 15 May 2007, a special performance at Winnipeg's Burton Cummings Theatre was recorded for national broadcast on CBC Radio.
The Edmonton premiere of the musical occurred on 24 April 2013 in conjunction with Workshop West Theatre, at the Timms Centre for the Performing Arts.
was primarily financed by a limited partnership of investors from across Canada, with a mix of arts grants and donations from Canadian labour unions.
was created by Danny Schur, who wrote the music and lyrics and co-wrote the text with Rick Chafe.