Jeremy Gerard Bloomberg

5, 2012 at the music box Theatre, 239 W. 45thSt. Information: +1-212-239-6200; as Hannibalthe Cannibal, the villain with a taste for chianti, fava beansand flesh. “Silence,” written by Jon and Al Kaplan and Hunter Bell,is cockily obscene (the title of the best known song isunprintable even on the internet) and sung as a male dancerkeeps his nose midpoint between the legs of a female dancerdoing more splits than a hot stock. The estimable musical-theater veteran David Garrison is nowplaying Hannibal, and he’s an asset, spooky and spectral, anantidote to the gleefully shticky, over-the-top Harris. Theingenious, compressed staging and choreography are byChristopher Gattelli, whose bolder dances will be on displaythis spring in the Broadway-bound “Newsies.”