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Marga Gomez Discusses Her Comedian Father and New Show.

Comic and performance artist Marga Gomez. Her new show is "A Line Around the Block" a solo memoir performance about her father, New York Cuban comedian Willy Chevalier. In 1991 Gomez wrote and performed a piece about her mother a flamboyantly self-dramatizing Puerto Rican dancer, "Memory Tricks." Gomez is performing her new show at The Public Theatre in New York, this month.

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Other segments from the episode on April 8, 1996

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 8, 1996: Interview with Marga Gomez; Review of Lorraine Hunt's album "Handel's Ariodante"; Interview with Lorraine Hunt.

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