Grammy Award-winning musicians Marcy Marxer and Cathy Fink sing about the unexpected humor they encountered during Marxer’s seven-year fight with breast cancer in the concert film, All Wigged Out.
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When Grammy-Award-winning musician Marcy Marxer learned she had breast cancer, she didn’t get sad or mad. She got funny. Marxer, who’s one half of the award-winning duo, Cathy and Marcy started posting cartoons, memes and musings on social media as a way updating friends on her cancer treatments. But her work was suddenly finding a wider audience of people dealt a cancer diagnosis, and they were applauding her.
“I was talking about my breasts, which I don’t actually do generally in public. It’s personal but I find when I talk about my breasts, other people think it’s funny,” Marxer told Morning Edition host Leila Fadel.
It wasn’t long before a network took shape out that social media following. “I got a lot of messages from people talking about their cancer situations. So, I ended up being kind of a chemo coach for a bunch of people and connecting with other people who help patients get through it.”
Marxer, and Cathy Fink, her partner in music and in life, decided to turn the experience into, of all things, a movie musical comedy: All Wigged Out. The narrative follows Marxer’s seven-year journey through cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
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