Acknowledgments I wish to thank the entire staff at ABC-CLIO, as well as the copyedi- tors and others with whom they subcontract, for all their help in get- ting this volume from the concept to the published book. I also wish to thank my wife and best friend, Karen Perone, for all the support that she continues to give me on my writing projects. I especially want to thank Karen for her patience in watching numerous movie musicals—on both the big screen and on video—over the course of the writing of this book. I would like to think that Karen’s biggest hope is that, upon the publication of this book, she never has to hear me sing the melody of the “Fugue for Tinhorns” from Guys and Dolls ever again. Apparently, I’m no Stubby Kaye, so I won’t rock the boat . . .
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