"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told The Berkshire Edge. "He wrote that democracy is something we have to continue to work on and fight for. It’s an important underpinning of our country.”
Despite Sharon Playhouse’s ambition to do something different with a classic musical, it fails to dramatize what’s at the core of Meredith Willson’s text – a universal tale of fulfilling a dream.