Seat Filler: Best NYC Theater of 2012

The Advocate's man on the New York theater scene counts down the top 10 LGBT-inclusive productions of 2012.

BY Brandon Voss

December 19 2012 4:14 PM ET

9. End of the Rainbow
Tracie Bennett was an unbridled force, a tornado of tragedy, as she eerily, exhilaratingly inhabited Judy Garland in Peter Quilter’s lean but powerful bio-drama about the performer’s drug-addled decline during her 1968 London comeback concerts. Accompanied by her enabling young fiancé, Garland was also bolstered by a sobering Michael Cumpsty as her pianist and confidant, a gentle Scot symbolizing all gay men who love their Judy tortured.
Belasco Theatre, closed.