Wind the clock back just over four years and Fernandez had arrived in the United States to considerable fanfare after astandoutperformance for his beloved Spain in China.
The surging vitality of the script allows the actors (Will Ferrell, Uma Thurman, and Roger Bart, among others) to find sure footing, and Gary Beach gives astandoutperformance as the drag-wearing musical director who eventually is called upon to star (his Judy Garland bit is priceless).