Top 10 theater.

1 Avenue Q The happiest musical ever about puppets finding their sexuality. Starring gorgeous John Tartaglia.

2 Anna in the Tropics Out playwright Nilo Cruz won the Pulitzer Prize for this hetero love tale set in a cigar factory.

3 I Am My Own Wife Director Moises Kaufman, playwright Doug Wright, and star Jefferson Mays knocked audiences out with the (mostly) true story of a World War II-era transvestite.

4 The Long Christmas Ride Home The sublimely gifted Paula Vogel returned with this tragic story of parents and the gay children they reject, told with puppeteer Basil Twist.

5 Taboo Rosie O'Donnell made sure Americans saw this Boy George musical re-creating his rise to fame amid the '90s London club scene.

6 Flesh and Blood Lesbian heroine Cherry Jones played a homophobic character for a change in this adaptation of Michael Cunningham's novel.

7 Wicked The Wizard of Oz turned upside down, with a sharp political bent and a full-throated cast that includes Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth.

8 Zanna, Don't! Before Jam Rodriguez became a good fairy on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, he was a mischievous sprite named Zanna in this perky high school-in-reverse musical.

9 The Boy From Oz The story of gay singer-songwriter Peter Allen let American audiences fall in love with Hugh Jackman in the leading role.

10 The Nun and the Countess Los Angeles's dynamic Odalys Nanin wrote and starred in this tale of Mexico's Sor Juana, whose 16th-century love poems to a woman aristocrat are still read today.