Live theater offers no closed captioning or pausing for bathroom breaks, and you can’t wear your pajamas (right, Pablo?). Still, the magic of live theater outshines anything on a screen. This year, the Valley’s favorite touring production was last October’s Dear Evan Hansen, the story of a high school student’s mental health struggles. Last February saw a performance of Come From Away, a musical about a town in Newfoundland that hosted grounded flights after Sept. 11, 2001. In third place is Mean Girls, based on the Lindsay Lohan film, which stopped by Pablo Center. How fetch. —Eric Rasmussen