IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE

<p>"Since <em>It Gives Me Great Pleasure</em> first appeared in 1972 I have been heartened to hear from so many producers and performers both amateur and professional how useful they have found it as a source of help information and encouragement and above all of inspiration for their own ideas. For this is very much a suggestive publication if you'll pardon the expression the intention being to fire the imagination to suggest a course of procedure rather than to proclaim an<em> ex cathedra </em>list of inviolable do's and don't's. </p><p>And now my estimable publishers have permitted me in this new edition to update publishers' addresses to revise the text in the light of a further fifteen years' Music Hall experience and considerably to expand the Chairman's section."</p><p>Michael Kilgarriff</p>