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- ↑ Brown, Stuart (6 October 2023). "Interview with Laurence Maslon". BroadwayRadioPrograms.com. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ↑ Kuftinec, Sonja (2003). Staging America. SIU Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-8093-8853-0.
- ↑ Lovensheimer, Jim (25 August 2010). South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten. Oxford University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-19-977970-3.
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