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References
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- ↑ "Asian-Americans Picket Curran Musical -- 'Racist'". The San Francisco Examiner. November 4, 1970. p. 63. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
- ↑ Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen Playbill, retrieved October 14, 2017
- ↑ Barnes, Clive. " 'Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen' Opens" The New York Times, December 29, 1970
- ↑ "Ladies, Gentlemen Not So Lovely" and "Dailies" Billboard, Vol. 83, No. 3, p. 26, January 16, 1971
- ↑ Schildcrout, Jordan (2019). In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays. New York and London: Routledge. p. 124. ISBN 978-0367210908.
