Although it builds itself as a murder mystery, it really isn’t so much a mystery about who committed the murder but how that murder of two children affected the mother. I, in fact, guessed the murderer in the first 20 minutes or so – but it didn’t matter. I wanted to stay around and see the repercussions of the murder and how Audra McDonalds character was going to own this truth. It is an interesting parallel to her role in Ragtime and the dilemma she faced regarding her child in that musical. One gift that Audra brings to all of her roles is the musical voice. So much of the narrative goes beyond realist dialogue and climbs the scale to poetry/music. This is best shown, when, in the final minutes of the show she says goodbye to both of her daughters in an eerily soaring vocal shout.