  Cayman Ilika, Nick DeSantis, Matthew Posner (photo by Erik Stuhaug) The International Examiner contributing writer Roxanne Ray interviewed bookwriter Harold Taw for the feature story, "For Team of Taw and Jeffries, Persuasion a 'Grueling' Reward."
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 In a short article for The Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England, bookwriter Harold Taw explains why musical theatre is the ideal medium for translating the aching melancholy of Persuasion.
Cayman Ilika, Nick DeSantis & Matthew Posner in Persuasion at Taproot Theatre. Photos by Erik Stuhaug.
Behind-the-scenes snapshot from the first photo call for Taproot Theatre's Production of PERSUASION3/24/2017  Left to right: Cayman Ilika (Anne Elliot), Matthew Posner (Captain Wentworth), and Nick DeSantis (Captain Harville/Sir Walter) Single tickets are now on sale for Taproot Theatre Company's world premiere of Persuasion July 12 to August 19, 2017. The show features a dream cast: Cayman Ilika, Matthew Posner, Nick DeSantis, Kate Jaeger, Randy Scholz, Sophia Franzella, Chelsea LeValley, Ryan Childers, and Caitlin Frances. Why not commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Persuasion in Seattle? There's no city more beautiful in the summer.  We are thrilled to announce that PERSUASION: A New Musical will have its world premiere at Seattle's Taproot Theatre Company from July 12, 2017 to August 19, 2017 (possible extension to Sept. 2, 2017). Our Anne Elliot is one of Seattle's finest leading ladies, Cayman Ilika, who may be familiar to you from her starring roles in The 5th Avenue Theatre/ACT co-productions of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and Vanities, as Patsy Cline in Centerstage's Always ... Patsy Cline, and as Mary Poppins in Village Theatre's Mary Poppins. Karen Lund, Director; Jessica Spencer, Assistant Director; Sonja Lowe, Dramaturge. Taproot's season subscriptions go on sale on October 1, 2016. More information to follow!
The staged reading for PERSUASION played to an attentive and appreciative full house on June 20, 2016. Two new songs; innumerable improvements to the script; and the "best of company"---the Texas Musical Theatre Workshop was a dream come true in the development of the show. Chris and Harold were blessed by an amazing creative team: producer Natasha Davison, director Robert Faires, music director Lyn Koenning; a stellar cast: Rachel James, Tim O'Brien, Matt Buzonas, Claire Lilley, Emily Ott, Shelley Auer, Nick Mayo, David M. Long, Lisa Brescia, and Liz Beckham; and a take-no-prisoners production team: Sarah Hudson, Tyler Osgood, Trace Turner, Kelley Elizabeth Henry, April Hudson, Lia Rodriguez, Texas Performing Arts, and Rusty Cloyes.
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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.