 A twelve-year continuing seasonal run has followed as well as a CD, and productions in the Midwest, Texas and California have also been successful.2008 was the final season for the performance at the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre.Based on the true story of the "Rouse Simmons", a Great Lakes schooner whose captain risks life and limb to transport fir trees from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Chicago's German immigrants during the late 19th century.