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- ↑ Broadway veteran Joy Franz brings decades of music and magic to ‘Triumph of Love’ Archived 2019-07-06 at the Wayback Machine , Doylestown Intelligencer, April 21, 2018
- ↑ Joy Franz Credits Playbill
- ↑ Joy Franz Credits About the Artists
- ↑ Into the Woods 2002 Cast Playbill
