"The cast is total dynamite. Everyone gasps and marvels at leather-sheathed Eric McCormack's El Gallo. He sings like a baritone Valentino, with a lip-curled villainy and an endearing sense of reality, which makes him all the more irresistible. The rest of the cast follows suit."
-The Hollywood Reporter
ERIC McCORMACK GETS TO EXHIBIT HIS MACHO SIDE IN 'THE FANTASTICKS.'
'I don't think America got to know who I was by watching me play gay for eight years,' the former 'Will & Grace' star says.
By Irene Lacher
The combatant in question is a manly man. He's wearing high-testosterone black from head to toe and that ultimate flag of machismo -- a full-on beard. His opponent is 20 years younger, but as the two sword fighters thrust and parry, the dark, handsome older man nimbly slices the air -- and his quarry's equanimity -- into invisible ribbons.
But then, something goes wrong, terribly, terribly wrong.
"I'm sorry," the macho man says. "It's my fault."