Special Acknowledgments for the Second Edition

• SHELDON EPPS, director and artistic director of the Pasadena Playhouse
• HETHYR “RED” VERHOEF, production stage manager
• BRAD ENLOW, technical director
• BARBARA BECKLEY, cofounder and artistic director of the Colony Theatre Company, Burbank, California
• LEESA FREED, production stage manger
• CYNTHIA R. STILLINGS, professor of theatre and associate dean of the College of the Arts at Kent State University

It was through the generosity and expertise of these people that I was able to bring this book into a second edition. It took a village.

Further Acknowledgments

I would also like to acknowledge the following people who in one way or another were extremely helpful in my career.

• MARGARET “SKIPPY” LYNN, entertainment director, Department of the Army, Washington, DC, who saw potential early in my career, opened doors of opportunity, and let me explore and exercise whatever talent I had.
• EDWIN LESTER, founder and executive producer of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, for giving me my first big-time shows.
• LARRY DEAN, production stage manager and longtime member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, for showing me the ropes in stage managing and demanding that as his assistant I do nothing but his and my best work.
• PAUL BLAKE, director, Broadway producer, GFI Productions, for long-term experience, employment, and highly spirited, fun-filled times.
• BILL HOLLAND, associate producer of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera and production stage manager, who fired me, and then became my buddy and working associate.
• JOHN, JACK, and BILL, who have passed over on to the other side, but whose spirits have sat with me during the first edition of this book and, I know now, with this second.
• SCOTT FEUER, founder and president, Environmental Foresight Landscape Architecture, for bringing to me his technological expertise where I had none.