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References
- ↑ Atkey, Mel (2006). Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre. Dundurn. p. 254. ISBN 9781459721203.
- ↑ Roberts, Gillian, ed. (2018). Reading Between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption Across the 49th Parallel. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 255. ISBN 9780773555136.
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