Seat Filler: Best NYC Theater of 2009

3. Hair
Following last summer’s run in Central Park, Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado’s Tony-winning 1967 “American tribal love-rock musical” opened and continues to shine at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Gavin Creel, who officially came out this year, stars as Claude, the apex of a bisexual triangle with Sheila and Berger in a tribe of Vietnam-era bohemians. “I was working really hard on developing my relationship with Berger, making sure it was authentic and came from a place that wasn't just about free love and fucking,” Creel told Advocate.com about the bromance based on Ragni and Rado. “It was about a deep, unspoken connection between these two really expressive guys.”