Acknowledgments

Every show has a large cast behind the curtains. We would like to thank the many people who helped to make this book a reality.

First, many thanks to our publisher, Tim Moore, for believing in the book and in show business every step of the way; his irrepressible enthusiasm was a boon to the project. Thanks also to Russ Hall, Anne Garcia, Dmitri Korzh, and everyone at Prentice Hall who helped carry the manuscript through to completion. Thank you to our panel of anonymous reviewers who provided critical feedback during the writing process. Thanks also to Sandra Lee for her edits, Sam Schindler for his diagrams, and Nick Peterson for his original photography.

We would like to thank our colleagues at The EX Group for their input and ideas. For their crucial research assistance at various stages of the book's development, we would particularly like to thank Claudia Laviada, Nutan Prabhu, Stephen Nasi, and Joseph Timmons.

We'd also like to thank all of the many people who shared with us their experience of show business in their own companies and work, most especially: Eddie Bamonte, Liz Bigham, Anthony Bucci, Bill Cahan, Nicole Cardillo, Becky Chambers, Kelly Cullen, Nancy DeBellis, Marc Gobé, Jud Heflin, Lois Jacobs, Chris Katsuleres, Jackson Kelly, George Kurkowski, David Laks, Claudine Mangano, Maggie McDonnell, Steve Mochel, Phil Mooney, Theresa Nasi, Drew Neisser, Grace Nichols, Bill Perrino, Mike Rubin, Costantino Sambuy, Tom Shepansky, Richard Sherwin, Carol Simantz, Craig Singer, Kerry Smith, Ken Stansbury, Eric Steidinger, Katherine Stone, Michelle Torio, Michael Trovalli, Rona Tuccillo, Erik Ulfers, Adrian van Hooydonk, Laura Venna, Carsten Wierwille, Jay Wilson, Rena Wong, and Ann Woolman.

Special writers' thanks go to Nick Peterson for keeping everything going when we disappeared for days or weeks on end, and to Susie and George Vrotsos for providing an idyllic writers' retreat.