Justin Timberlake gives a "charming performance" as the voice of Boo-Boo, Mike Hale wrote in The Times in December.
A pianist's charming performance of a jolly Haydn rondo can be more spiritual than some stiff organist's account of a somber Bach chorale prelude.
And he has the advantage of having the playwright and the audience on his side; it's easier to give a charming performance when your character has charm.
Lyman Felt (Al Mohrmann in a charming performance), an aptly named "Me Generation" bigamist, has just left the operating room of an upstate New York hospital.
"Congratulations on a charming performance," he wrote, "in very trying circumstances".
He said that Buckley "delivered a charming performance in what was effectively a supporting role.
The New York Philharmonic calls its charming performance of Lerner and Loewe's "Camelot," which opened on Wednesday night before an adoring audience, a semistaged production.
And that allows an unoverwhelmed audience to absorb other things, like the modest, thoughtful and even charming performance of J. Fred Schiffman, who turns the nonsinging role of Captain Brackett, the military commander on the island, into an indelible element of the show.
But as so often happens, I'll be thinking longest about Bobby Steggert and his effortlessly charming performance of "What More Can I Say?" from Falsettos.
Vladimir Malakhov danced his first "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux" of the season, soaring through the Balanchine choreography yet filling it with vivid gestural color, as did his ballerina, Amanda McKerrow, in one of the season's most charming performances of the duet.
