Arena Stage presents a one-woman production that offers just what it says it will offer: “A Long and Winding Road,” tracing Maureen McGovern’s life from the time she was a youngster in Youngstown, Ohio, through the days when she worked as a secretary by day and sang folk songs at night, through the highs and lows of her career.

The stage for this production is almost bare: grand piano, black leather lounge chair, stool, large screen on which are projected slides of McGovern as a young girl, at her confirmation, at a birthday party.