For the veteran actor Holland Taylor, there’s no one surefire method for successfully embodying a real-life character onstage. But nailing down someone’s manner of speaking—and in the case of Ann Richards, her distinctive Texas drawl—is certainly part of it. “Ann was not a fast talker. She was slow, relaxed—cold honey, as I like to say,” Taylor says. “Words like ‘im-por-tant’ and ‘skoo-wl’—those are the keywords where, if you hit them wrong, you’ll really hear it.”As the star of the one-woman stage show Ann, which the 77-year-old actor also wrote and produced, Taylor first stepped into the politician’s shoes ten years ago before a sold-out crowd of Galvestonians. A life story told in two acts, Ann is framed around Richards delivering a commencement speech at an unnamed college;…The post A Broadway Veteran Channels Ann Richards appeared first on Texas Monthly.