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- ↑ "Wicked's Amanda Jane Cooper Will Make Feinstein's/54 Below Debut This Spring". Playbill. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- ↑ "Amanda Jane Cooper". Broadway Buzz. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ↑ "AMANDA JANE COOPER". www.artistsandbeyond.com.
- ↑ "Broadway Star Amanda Jane Cooper Shares Her Story from Struggle to Hope in New I Am Second Film". alarryross.co.
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