'I don't thk Ameri got to know who I was by watchg me play gay for eight years,' the former 'Will & Grace' star says.
Contents:
- ALUM TOM JON REWR THE FANTASTICKS AS GAY LOVE STORY
- REVIEW: A GAY MAN SE “THE FANTASTICKS”
- EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: BARRY DENNEN ON ‘THE FANTASTICKS,’ LA THEATER, JUDI DENCH, BEG GAY, AND FORMER LOVE BARBRA STREISAND
ALUM TOM JON REWR THE FANTASTICKS AS GAY LOVE STORY
Michael Lluber was middle school when he first enuntered the 1960s mil “The Fantasticks, ” and he immediately thought of Luisa, the young, ialistic girl who falls love wh the boy next door, as a gay boy.
While Lluber had always wanted to do a gay versn of “The Fantasticks, ” he thought would be impossible to get the rights, so he let go. “I told Tom that my way to is when you’re gay and you fall love for the first time, you disver who you are through the person you love, ” Lluber said.
This new versn of The Fantasticks featur two young gay men as the ma characters stead of a young woman and man. “Rethkg the show through the lens of two young gay men reveals so much about first love, inty and self-disvery.
REVIEW: A GAY MAN SE “THE FANTASTICKS”
"Rethkg the show through the lens of two young gay men reveals so much about first love, inty and self-disvery. While there is nothg gay or queer about the show or story le, transcends the hetero love story, to be about them wh which anyone n relate.
Image a gay versn of this mil? Two fathers who realize that each has a gay child even though the children don’t realize yet. Alum Tom Jon Rewr The Fantasticks as Gay Love Story | Department of Theatre and Dance - The Universy of Texas at At.
EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: BARRY DENNEN ON ‘THE FANTASTICKS,’ LA THEATER, JUDI DENCH, BEG GAY, AND FORMER LOVE BARBRA STREISAND
Productn part by rampg up the dreamy first act wh Cirque du Soleil-spired for McCormack, after eight years playg gay lawyer Will Tman on TV’s “Will & Grace, ” perhaps isn’t surprisg that his bsh wh actn/adventure should be as a member of “the Fred Astaire valry, ” as choreographer Lee Marto dubs El Gallo and iends. “I don’t thk Ameri got to know who I was by watchg me play gay for eight years, ” says McCormack, 46. Don’t hang me up wh the gay thg.
We recently ran a few piec on gothic artist Edward Gorey, and we learned he was gay real life and fairly open about some early (and even later) works. Lovecraft, who appears to have had a gay streak and smuggled homoerotic suatns to his stori. The TB may have robbed him of a sex life, but the sexual subtexts—and explicly homoerotic drawgs—tell a different story.
This associatn between gayns and the fanciful isn’t rtricted to gay men; several women are spotlighted here. FLINT, MI–When Michael Lluber, Artistic Director at The Flt Repertory Theatre, last December cid to act on his visn of a re-imaged The Fantasticks, wh a uple of gay teenage lads stead of the boy and girl that is wrten to the 60+ year old story, he uld have hardly imaged the oute. This productn, though, is special beyond the stg of two gay lovers.