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- ↑ "Review: ‘Daddy’". Variety , January 10, 2011.
- ↑ "BWW Reviews: DADDY: Don't Let Your Son Go Down on Me". Broadway World, February 5, 2010.
- ↑ "Gerald McCullouch Stars In DADDY At Hudson Mainstage". Broadway World, December 2, 2010.
- ↑ "Ooohhh... Daddy!". HIM Magazine, December 1, 2013.
- ↑ "Dan Via Wrote and Stars in Daddy, But It’s Not A Manifesto". Brooklyn the Borough, February 3, 2010.