The delightful Donahey gets to perform Songs For A New World’s splashiest numbers, demonstrating terrific comedic skills and a soprano as smooth as silk. She’s the pissed-off wife in “Just One Step†and a frustrated, German-accented Mrs. Santa in “Surabaya Santa†(think Marlene Dietrich or Lotte Lenya in vamp mode). On a more serious note, she sings of a woman who chooses material possessions over “The Stars And The Moon,†and in “The Flagmaker, 1775,†of a young woman on the home front sewing “one more star†onto the colonial flag as she waits for her beloved’s return from the war. -Steven Stanley