The Kitsilano Showboat ( Hard cover)
by Christopher Best (Author)
and Barry Leinbach (editor)
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by Christopher Best (Author)
and Barry Leinbach (editor)
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List Price: Deluxe Edition: 80lb gloss white paper,
glossy cover, laminated, Color, $59.95.
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printed at one time.
Availability: This title was released on May 8, 2010. Ships from
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Book Description
The Kitsilano Showboat just keeps rolling along! Now in its 75th
year, this book, compiled for the 75th anniversary of the Showboat,
looks at the origins of the Showboat in 1935, the lady who single
handedly is responsible for the success of the Kitsilano Showboat
over the years, Bea Leinbach or Captain Bea as she is known, the
many performers who over the years went on to star status and to
become celebrities, supporters of the Showboat over the years, the
executive and volunteers who without their help Showboat would never
have been possible, the 100s of dance and musical theatre groups
who provided the acts over the years and the 1000s of entertainers
who became better citizens and lived happier more fulfilled lives
because they each had their moment of stardom on the stage of the
Kitsilano Showboat.
Everyone remembers seeing Showboat at sometime in their youth if
they lived in Vancouver. Families would stroll down to Kits beach and
lay a blanket on the lawn or sit on the bleachers. It was all free and still
is, no one gets paid, the performers, the staff, the executive, only the
audience. The audience gets paid in spades with a beautiful evening
under the stars watching the acts unfold on stage and the activities
around them, in the water, the pool and on the beach. The moto of
the Showboat has been since it began, "amateur entertainment for
three months during the summertime in the most beautiful setting in
the world." A place where kids can come and perform in front of a real
live audience on a real stage. No matter what stage in their lives they
eventually wind up on, they all remember fondly the first stage they
were ever on, the Kitsilano Showboat with Captain Bea.
Since the 1940s, Bea Leinbach has been the organizing guru
behind many civic and municipal organizations in Vancouver and
Kitsilano. When ever entertainers were needed people called on
Captain Bea. In the early days when Bert Emery thought up the idea
for a Mississippi Showboat moored on the beach at Kitsilano, he also
developed a Kiddies parade which was held at the beginning of each
summer. Then there was the venerable Miss Kitsilano Contest which
was held for decades. Bea Leinbach started another institution akin to
the Showboat called the Kitsilano Community Concert Party. Made up
of around 12 to 15 entertainers from each past Showboat season, they
performed at institutions around town, seniors homes, hospitals, during
the rest of the year for people who were unable to get out to see the
Showboat..... all these activities including the Showboat were
designed to increase civic spirit and bring the communites closer
together and they sure did!
Over the course of the years Captain Bea received many awards,
from the Kitsilano Best Citizenship Award, to a National Citizenship
Award, to a much coveted YWCA Women of Distinction Award all the
way up to the Order Of Canada.
We hope you enjoy the story of Bea Leinbach's Outdoor School
of the Performing Arts, ' The Kitsilano Showboat.'
Book Description
The Kitsilano Showboat just keeps rolling along! Now in its 75th
year, this book, compiled for the 75th anniversary of the Showboat,
looks at the origins of the Showboat in 1935, the lady who single
handedly is responsible for the success of the Kitsilano Showboat
over the years, Bea Leinbach or Captain Bea as she is known, the
many performers who over the years went on to star status and to
become celebrities, supporters of the Showboat over the years, the
executive and volunteers who without their help Showboat would never
have been possible, the 100s of dance and musical theatre groups
who provided the acts over the years and the 1000s of entertainers
who became better citizens and lived happier more fulfilled lives
because they each had their moment of stardom on the stage of the
Kitsilano Showboat.
Everyone remembers seeing Showboat at sometime in their youth if
they lived in Vancouver. Families would stroll down to Kits beach and
lay a blanket on the lawn or sit on the bleachers. It was all free and still
is, no one gets paid, the performers, the staff, the executive, only the
audience. The audience gets paid in spades with a beautiful evening
under the stars watching the acts unfold on stage and the activities
around them, in the water, the pool and on the beach. The moto of
the Showboat has been since it began, "amateur entertainment for
three months during the summertime in the most beautiful setting in
the world." A place where kids can come and perform in front of a real
live audience on a real stage. No matter what stage in their lives they
eventually wind up on, they all remember fondly the first stage they
were ever on, the Kitsilano Showboat with Captain Bea.
Since the 1940s, Bea Leinbach has been the organizing guru
behind many civic and municipal organizations in Vancouver and
Kitsilano. When ever entertainers were needed people called on
Captain Bea. In the early days when Bert Emery thought up the idea
for a Mississippi Showboat moored on the beach at Kitsilano, he also
developed a Kiddies parade which was held at the beginning of each
summer. Then there was the venerable Miss Kitsilano Contest which
was held for decades. Bea Leinbach started another institution akin to
the Showboat called the Kitsilano Community Concert Party. Made up
of around 12 to 15 entertainers from each past Showboat season, they
performed at institutions around town, seniors homes, hospitals, during
the rest of the year for people who were unable to get out to see the
Showboat..... all these activities including the Showboat were
designed to increase civic spirit and bring the communites closer
together and they sure did!
Over the course of the years Captain Bea received many awards,
from the Kitsilano Best Citizenship Award, to a National Citizenship
Award, to a much coveted YWCA Women of Distinction Award all the
way up to the Order Of Canada.
We hope you enjoy the story of Bea Leinbach's Outdoor School
of the Performing Arts, ' The Kitsilano Showboat.'
Product Details
Softcover: 175 pages
Publisher: Warfleet Press (May 8, 2010)
Language: English
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Softcover: 175 pages
Publisher: Warfleet Press (May 8, 2010)
Language: English
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ISBN-13:
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