“This weekend’s premiere—there are three more performances next weekend—was an interesting, semi-staged affair with some fervent portrayals by its cast of about two dozen, most notably the stellar soprano MaKayla McDonald”

“..sonorously sung...by MaKayla McDonald, as Harriet, whose lyric soprano soared as she expressed the heroine’s fears, memories of her own harrowing escape, and her great hopes and dreams.”