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- ↑ "Internet Broadway Database" . Retrieved April 6, 2013.
- ↑ Rockwell, John (August 5, 1990). "Love's Labours Gained". The New York Times.
- ↑ George Lee Andrews Talks More Phantom (Video)
- ↑ George Lee Andrews AboutTheArtists
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