Elijah Moshinsky, the director, has the indispensable support of two dazzling performers: Robert Lindsay as Schatz and Antony Sher as Cohn.

Bogle "has fashioned a resonant history of a bygone era . . . and passionately documented the contribution of one of its most dazzling and complex performers," Mel Watkins said here last year.

By reputation a dazzling performer at the keyboard, Daquin was courted by the aristocracy, and his great expertise at the organ drew large crowds to hear him.

Her mother, Katja Schuman, is a dazzling performer on horseback.

He'd lay their fears to rest soon enough, he and the dazzling performers of La De- moiselle.

Nils Lofgren: Cry Tough DVD (Rockpalast/Eagle Vision) Though to a certain generation Nils Lofgren may be best known for his onstage work with Bruce Springsteen, there are many who know him to be a dazzling performer in his own right.

He is as dazzling and inventive a performer as ever, a dancer whose irrepressible physical expansiveness gives him a soaring look.

It is no knock on the original cast, many of them dazzling performers, to point out where the musical is more effective, because some of its raw energy also left with them.

It is understandable that Mr. Gelb would want to court such dazzling performers.

Yet this dazzling performer never comes close to crashing, providing the essential helium in a show not otherwise endowed with much lightness.