BALLET THEATRE CASTING FOR L.A. VISIT

Natalia Makarova, making her first Los Angeles appearances since 1982, highlights the casting for the American Ballet Theatre engagement in Shrine Auditorium, March 5-24. Evening performances begin at 8 p.m., matinees at 2 p.m.

Artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov is not scheduled to perform during the engagement. The announced principal dancers are Victor Barbee, Patrick Bissell, Fernando Bujones, Cynthia Gregory, Cynthia Harvey, Susan Jaffe, Robert LaFosse, Kevin McKenzie, John Meehan, Magali Messac, Danilo Radojevic, Ross Stretton, Marianna Tcherkassky, Clark Tippet and Martine van Hamel.

The scheduled casting is as follows:

March 5--”Donizetti Variations” (Balanchine): Harvey, Radojevic; “Grand Pas Classique” (Gsovsky/Auber): Gregory, Stretton; “Manon” pas de deux (MacMillan/Massenet): Makarova, McKenzie; “Field, Chair and Mountain” (Gordon/Field): Van Hamel, Tippet; “Raymonda” divertissements (Petipa/Baryshnikov/Glazunov): Messac, Bissell.

March 6--”Romeo and Juliet” (MacMillan/Prokofiev): Bujones, Tcherkassky.

March 7--”Romeo and Juliet”: LaFosse, Leslie Browne.

March 8--”Romeo and Juliet”: McKenzie, Makarova.

March 9 matinee--”Donizetti Variations”: Cheryl Yeager, Peter Fonseca; “Field, Chair and Mountain”: Elaine Kudo, Johan Renvall; “In a Country Garden” (Vernon/Herold): Tcherkassky, Radojevic; “Great Galloping Gottschalk” (Taylor-Corbett): Jaffe, LaFosse.

March 9--”Coppelia” (Saint-Leon/Martinez/Delibes): Van Hamel, Bissell.

March 10 matinee--”Coppelia”: Messac, Tippet.

March 10--”Coppelia”: Gregory, Bujones.

March 12--”Paquita” variations (Petipa/Makarova/Minkus): Harvey, Bujones; “Anastasia,” Act III (MacMillan/Martinu): Gregory, Stretton; “Great Galloping Gottschalk”: Tcherkassky, Renvall.

March 13--”Grand Pas Romantique” (Bujones/Adam): Tcherkassky, Radojevic; “Anastasia”: Van Hamel, Tippet; “In a Country Garden”: Yeager, Gil Boggs; “Theme and Variations” (Balanchine/Tchaikovsky): Harvey, McKenzie.

March 14--”Paquita” variations: Van Hamel, Bissell; “Anastasia,” Act III: Gregory, Stretton; “Theme and Variations”: Yeager, Fonseca.

March 15--”Grand Pas Romantique”: Tcherkassky, Radojevic; “Anastasia,” Act III: Messac, Michael Owen; “Raymonda” divertissements: Gregory, Bujones.

March 16 matinee--”Romeo and Juliet”: Browne, LaFosse.

March 16--”Romeo and Juliet”: Stretton, Harvey.

March 17 matinee--”Romeo and Juliet”: Robert Hill, Amanda McKerrow.

March 17--”Romeo and Juliet”: Bissell, Jaffe.

March 19--”Coppelia”: Gregory, LaFosse.

March 20--”Coppelia”: Van Hamel, Tippet.

March 21--”Cinderella” (Baryshnikov/Anastos/Prokofiev): Gregory, Stretton.

March 22--”Cinderella”: Messac, Bissell.

March 23 matinee--”Cinderella”: Yeager, Radojevic.

March 23--”Cinderella”: Harvey, LaFosse.

March 24 matinee--”Cinderella”: Jaffe, Bissell.