Despite all the parts that Kathleen Chalfant plays, she is not the star. The most consistent on-stage presence is Angela Goethals as Mary Mackenzie a young Scottish girl. Mary is so taken by a wild west show about Calamity Jane that she becomes convinced that the legendary Jane holds the key to finding a better life. The Columbian World Exposition is the perfect place to put Rafe's first money-making plan to the test. To sell a Viagra-like patent medicine, the gang puts on a show demonstrating its effectiveness.
Dollars roll in and things look rosy.
But this is a journey towards truth and a major economic depression is their first confrontation with the real and often dangerous world of their dreams. Undaunted, the adventurers head further west. Ms. Goethals is an energetic and attractive strawberry blonde, and she engages you for the first part of the play. Though the actors all do good work, when Ms. Chalfant is not on stage everything seems to slow down and lose steam. There are other problems.