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- ↑ "In The Heights – Chasing Broadway Dreams". Great Performances . Retrieved January 17, 2017.
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- ↑ Isherwood, Charles. "From the Corner Bodega, the Music of Everyday Life" The New York Times, February 9, 2007
- ↑ In the Heights Playbill, retrieved January 25, 2017
- ↑ Corbin Bleu Extends in 'In the Heights' to 8/17; Seth Stewart Returns as Graffiti Pete" broadwayworld.com, May 25, 2010
- ↑ McPhee, Ryan (September 29, 2016). "What'd He Miss? Seth Stewart Is Hamilton's New Marquis de Lafayette & Thomas Jefferson on Broadway". broadway.com . Retrieved January 17, 2017.
