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Persuasion: A New Musical Original Cast Recording is available to download/stream on Apple Music and iTunes, Amazon Music, Spotify, and everywhere you listen to music. Physical CDs are available at Easy Street Records, Amazon, and through your local record store.
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About the Original Cast Recording

​Persuasion: A New Musical
Music and Lyrics by CHRIS JEFFRIES
Book by HAROLD TAW

Directed by Karen Lund

MUSIC DIRECTOR/ORCHESTRATOR

Michael Nutting

CAST (in order of appearance)
Cayman Ilika - Anne Elliot
Matthew Posner - Captain Wentworth
Caitlin Frances - Lady Russell, Mrs. Musgrove, Mrs. Harville
Nick DeSantis - Sir Walter, Captain Harville
Chelsea LeValley - Elizabeth Elliot, Henrietta Musgrove
Ryan Childers - Mr. Shepherd, Charles Musgrove, Third Gossip, Servant, Lady Dalrymple
Sophia Franzella - Louisa Musgrove, First Gossip, Miss Carteret
Kate Jaeger - Mary Musgrove, Second Gossip, Clerk
Randy Scholz - Captain Benwick, Mr. Elliot

MUSICIANS
Michael Matlock—Conductor/Piano/Asst. Music Director
Bruce Carpenter—Reeds
Chris Monroe—Percussion
Matthew Tevenan—Cello

Music Consultant R.J. Tancioco; Recording Engineer Steve Ditore; Photographer Eric Stuhaug. Recording and production of the album was made possible by the Artist Residency Programs at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
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Copyright 2015-2022 by Harold Taw and Chris Jeffries. Thank you to Ian Eisendrath, Albert Evans, Makaela Milburn, and Kelsey Thorgalsen of New Works at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle, WA, for nurturing ​​ Persuasion in its infancy; and to the amazing writers in The 5th Avenue Writers Group (2013-15): Richard Gray, Lauren Goldman Marshall, Andrew Russell, Stephanie Timm, and Ian Williams. Thanks to Natasha Davison, Lyn Koenning, and Texas Musical Theatre Workshop for guiding the show's adolescence. Hosannas of gratitude to our champion director Karen Lund, dramaturg Sonja Lowe, Jessica Spencer, Katy Tabb, Michael Nutting, R.J. Tancioco, Abigail Pishaw, Mark Lund, and everyone at Taproot Theatre Company who made the world premiere production more beautiful than could have been imagined.
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