SPT director Olga Sanchez gets good results when her cast members overact. In the title role, Chris Boscia is romantic in both lustful and gallant ways. One of Vasquez's main adventures involves romancing a comrade's wife without getting caught. At least without getting caught for a while.
Killings are accidental and incidental.
Boscia's performance is alive with a certain rascally nobility. Valdez's plot is based, more or less, on folk legends and historical facts. He enhances facts and legends with songs that are sometimes funny, sometimes poignant and sometimes fraught with anxiety. Musical director Edd Key's recorded score contains diverse Mexican musical styles including mariachi, ballad, waltz, polka, lullaby and two-step. The performers' singing capacities vary widely.