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Actor B. D. Wong.

B.D. Wong won a Tony award for his performance in the title role of "M. Butterfly." He played a man posing as a woman. Now, he's taking on another challenge: in the new one-man musical "Herringbone," which opened last week at the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia, he plays eleven characters, including a eight-year-old boy, his parents, his grandmother, his dance teacher, and a tap-dancing midget nicknamed Lou the Frog. (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

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Other segments from the episode on May 5, 1992

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, May 5, 1992: Interview with Bob Simon; Interview with B. D. Wong; Review of the Terem Quartet's album "Terem."

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