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The best
Taylor Mac
Photograph and makeup: Derrick Little
Ragingly original and bracingly radical, Mac took audiences on wild trips to previously unimagined destinations.
Patti LuPone: Far Away Places
Photograph: Courtesy Andy Kropa / Getty Images
Broadway’s reigning diva, gutsy and glorious, christened the fabulous new 54 Below with a smashing set.
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Sherie Rene Scott: A Piece of Meat
Photograph: Thom Kaine
Scott sliced her midtown star power with downtown edge in a witty and insightful metacabaret triumph.
Justin Vivian Bond
Photograph: Amos Mac
Heir to and investor in the Weimar and Warhol traditions, NYC’s great trans shaman commanded fascination.
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Bridget Everett
A blond grenade of alt cabaret, Everett exploded in blasts of rock and raunch, clearing new paths wherever she went.
Maude Maggart: Into the Garden
Photograph: Gor Megaera
The ethereal chanteuse explored the American Songbook to cultivate blooms that were all her own.
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Christine Ebersole: The End of the World as We Know It
Photograph by Kit Kittle
Cabaret Ebersole popped and bubbled like a dry champagne in the chameleonic entertainer’s latest Carlyle bash.
Norbert Leo Butz
One of musical theater’s most magnetic stars cast bluesy, puckish magic in his expert nightclub debut.
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Cole Escola
Photograph: Allison Michael Orenstein
The boyish spark plug’s unique mix of irony, tragedy, pluck and pizzazz made him the best gamin in town.
Molly Pope
Photograph: Allison Michael Orenstein
Pope belted her heart out, then had the guts to wear it on the patterned sleeves of her delightfully retro getups.
The worst
Our Hit Parade ended its madcap march
The seminal Joe’s Pub neocabaret showcase and performance hub—hosted monthly by Kenny Mellman, Neal Medlyn and Bridget Everett—called it quits in December, going out in a fabulous Viking-ship blaze of laughter, tears and unfettered excess.
Been there, done that? Think again, my friend.
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