Strange Summer: ‘The Fantastics’ - The Gay & Lbian Review

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'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.

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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.

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.

"Rethkg the show through the lens of two young gay men reveals so much about first love, inty and self-disvery.

EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: BARRY DENNEN ON ‘THE FANTASTICKS,’ LA THEATER, JUDI DENCH, BEG GAY, AND FORMER LOVE BARBRA STREISAND

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. 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.

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Exclive Interview: Barry Dennen on ‘The Fantasticks,’ LA theater, Judi Dench, beg gay, and former love Barbra Streisand.

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