The actors all give memorable performances, especially Mr. Cerveris (right), who evokes the charismatic Balanchine with uncanny precision, even managing to suggest a dancer's lithe physicality.

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Mr. Silverman is not quite up to the mark set by his colleagues, but he is very good though I couldn't help but wish that I were seeing Michael Cerveris instead.

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Mr. Cerveris, who played Giorgio opposite Ms. McDonald and Patti LuPone in Lincoln Center's semistaged 2005 concert version of "Passion, " brought to the role a troubling darkness that the outgoing Mr. Silverman, excellent though he is, cannot muster.

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