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“Wicked” actresses Mary Kate Morrissey and Ginna Claire Mason teach remote musical-theater lessons to an impossibly adorable collection of pint-sized fans around the country.

Ginna Claire Mason will assume the role of Glinda in the Broadway production of the international hit musical Wicked beginning April 9 at the Gershwin Theatre. She will succeed Katie Rose Clarke, who plays her final performance April 7.

Mason has spent the last year playing Glinda in the tour of Wicked. She has also toured in Newsies and Flashdance the Musical and starred as Korie in Duck Commander: The Musical in Las Vegas.

However, the most memorable piece of the show is undoubtedly Glinda. Mason takes a character that could be a simple, popular blonde stereotype and gives her layers of complexity — her Glinda is funny, charming, energetic, excitable, impassioned, imperfect and more. She plays coy to manipulate others, but never with the intent to harm (aside from one attempt to embarrass Elphaba with a big, black hat). Mason’s boundless energy onstage is downright infectious, and provided a majority of the evening’s laughs.

Mason hits the comedic beats perfectly, drawing extra humor out of every line with subtle pitch changes, inflections and never-ending physical energy. I have a hard time imagining anyone executing “Popular” better than Mason, both in terms of comic and vocal talent.

On top of that, Glinda and Elphaba’s chemistry is perhaps the best part of the show. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mason and Morrissey are best friends in real life, and their rapport had me hoping for a future production of “Wicked” where the two witches end up together while Fiyero is left to find his own scarecrow wife (no offense to Hall).

Mason’s voice and demeanor embody the Good Witch of the North in a way that makes her giddy and slightly annoying character completely lovable. She gives a phenomenal performance in “Popular,” making the audience giggle, applaud and even sing along.