Mr. Fuith's dour performance portrays Michael as a watchful, nerdy introvert susceptible to sudden spasms of rage and terror.
Davis, in an Academy Award-winning performance, portrayed Julie Marsden, the strong-willed belle whose impertinent spoiled nature wreaks havoc on her relationship with fiancé Preston Dillard Fondaa).
A tour de force one-man performance, portraying several characters, doing battle with a massive set that included multiple levels and a wet stage, along with numerous complex prop set-ups.
Merrily We Live (1938) may have been a blatant reworking of Gregory La Cava's My Man Godfrey (1936), but the entertaining comedy was a box-office hit; Bennett gave another notable performance, portraying a spoiled socialite who learns about life's true values from a new butler (Brian Aherne).
According to her the performance portrayed Madonna as "fashionable, powerful, but vulnerable sex toy", which became "an ongoing theme for the night".
Steiger, in a virtuoso performance, portrays a man so scarred by his witnessing of atrocities that he's become a paragon of emotional cruelty, quietly stewing in his hate and pain.
The superior performance portrayed by the SSA technique could be explained by several factors.
A postperformance discussion focuses on the new dance-theater pieces, which were created with the help of free rehearsal space provided by BAX. 8 p.m. 421 Fifth Avenue, at Eighth Street, Park Slope, (718) 832-0018, www.bax.org; $15. (Claudia La Rocco) 'Book Dances' (Weekends through Nov. 6) Melissa Briggs Dance offers site-specific performances portraying memorable scenes from classic novels.
Tonight and tomorrow night at 7, Sunday at 3 p.m., White Wave John Ryan Theater, 25 Jay Street, Brooklyn Heights, www.balamdance.org or (212) 563-9111; $20; students and 65+, $15.(Erika Kinetz) 'BOOK DANCES' (Through Sunday) Melissa Briggs Dance offers site-specific performances portraying memorable scenes from classic works.
He thought he and Slanina-Davies delivered brilliant performances portraying the "reality of so many 16-17-year-olds 16-17-year-olds 16-17-year-olds 16-17-year-olds
