Seat Filler: Best NYC Theater of 2009

5. The Power of Two
Though technically more of a cabaret act than a musical, this summer show at Feinstein’s at the Regency was powered by two gay, golden-throated theatrical forces: Broadway stud Cheyenne Jackson and Michael Feinstein, celebrated interpreter of the Great American Songbook. According to Jackson, the evening’s not-so-subtle queer subtext (the act, which took its title from an Indigo Girls song, featured gay anthems “The Time Has Come” and The King and I’s “We Kiss in a Shadow”) scared away some Upper East Side regulars. “I didn’t expect the show to be as political as it was,” he told Advocate.com. A studio recording, minus between-song banter, was released in November.