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- ↑ Gans, Andrew."Foster and Stanley Will Join Original Chicago Quartet for Broadway's Million Dollar Quartet" Playbill.com, January 21, 2010
- ↑ Fick, David. "Million Dollar Quartet Opens Tonight". Musical Cyberspace, April 11, 2010
- ↑ Jones, Kenneth. "Producers of Baby It's You! Eyeing Broadhurst Theatre and Beth Leavel" Archived March 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine . Playbill. January 14, 2011.
- ↑ Jones, Kenneth. "Shirelles Musical Baby It's You! Takes More Steps Toward Broadway" playbill.com, October 20, 2010.
- ↑ "Mutrux's Baby, It's You Musical to Play Broadhurst in Spring with Leavel in Talks to Star?". Broadway.com, January 14, 2011.
- ↑ "'Heartbreak Hotel' Set to Close Sept. 9" . Retrieved May 11, 2019.
- 1 2 BWW News Desk. "BABY IT'S YOU Set to Open 4/27 at Broadhurst Starring Beth Leavel". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Floyd Mutrux". IMDb. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
