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Question:I went onto youtube.com to listen to the song "Popular" from the musical Wicked. I found a bunch of songs that were titled Kristens Last Popular. Or else it was Kirstens Last Popular. I don't know. But why is i called Kristens LAST Popular?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I went onto youtube.com to listen to the song "Popular" from the musical Wicked. I found a bunch of songs that were titled Kristens Last Popular. Or else it was Kirstens Last Popular. I don't know. But why is i called Kristens LAST Popular?

That video is her last performance on Broadway of the song. After that, the part was taken over by someone else.

Original Broadway Casts of any musical won't last forever. The cast is always changing as people drop out and new people are brought in. There have been 3 or 4 Galindas in the Broadway performance - Kristin Cheonweth has since been in a movie, and co-starred in episodes of Pushing Daisies, a show on ABC.

Hope that makes sense, and hope I've helped =)

probably was Chenowith's last performance before she moved on to other roles and a new actress took over.

It means it was Kristin Chenoweth's last performance of the song Popular in the musical Wicked, after that someone else played Glinda

It was her last performance with the show before she put broadway on hold to do Pushing Daisies and movies like RV

That video of Popular is from Kristin Chenoweth's very last performance in Wicked before she left the show. So that was the last time she ever sang Popular, hence the title: Kristin's Last Popular. Also, she improved a little because it was her last night.

Kristen Chenoweth is probably the biggest name for Glinda in Wicked. She did the run of it for quite a while, but then she moved on to different things.

It was most likely titled Kristen's Last Popular because it was her last run of the show, and therefore her last time singing it.

Hope this helps!!