 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.
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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.