COOS BAY — It took all the way until the semifinals, but Bay Area Teen Idol finally has a front-runner.

Star Moralez didn’t get her first top score until the contest was more than halfway over, but since then she’s been first every time.

“It’s my third first place in a row — I hope it doesn’t jinx me,” Moralez said. “It’s been a tough year to put yourself apart from everybody when everyone is so stage-worthy.”

The other three finalists — Destyni Fuller, Emma Wampler and Thaddeus Miller — each have a single top score under their belts. Marissa Cato finished fifth.

After a rocky start for a few of them in the round of songs with a color in the title, the five contestants put together a Broadway round that was Teen Idol at its finest, each drawing lengthier than usual rounds of applause from the crowd of more than 300 Thursday night at the Egyptian Theatre.

Fuller, who dreams of being on Broadway, gave her best performance to date with “No Good Deed,” from “Wicked,” wearing green witch makeup. She’d been working on it for two months, and it’s the most difficult song she’s ever attempted.

“You have to start with a scream, then go soft, then big and passionate,” she said. “There’s so much emotion in that song.”

Even Moralez said Fuller deserved the top score, noting Fuller also got better comments from judges on her color song, Kellie Pickler’s “Red High Heels,” while judges told Moralez that Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” wasn’t a good choice for her.

But it was Moralez who most impressed judges in the Broadway round with “Maybe This Time” from “Cabaret.”

“When do we take this on the road?” judge Edward Martin said after her performance, which judge Dennis Lindahl called fantastic.

Wampler tied for second place with the Eva Cassidy version of “Fields of Gold” and “Popular” from “Wicked,” with some supporting acting from reigning Teen Idol Alyssa Birrer.

“When I first decided I was going to do that song, I told Alyssa and she said, ‘You have to let me coach you,’” Wampler said, adding it was Birrer’s idea to play Elphaba in the scene. “I really needed an Elphaba to help me present it.”

Wampler nearly put as much theatricality into her color song, using a basket of daisies as a prop.

Thaddeus Miller placed fourth with Frank Sinatra’s “Blue Moon” and “Razzle Dazzle” from “Chicago.” He was the exception to the rule, doing better on his color song than in the Broadway round, when he wore a shiny sequined jacket. The jacket — which his mother, Jeni Graham, made — got a lot of attention, but it also backfired a bit. Miller had a hard time staying in character with pins sticking him.

“I’m ecstatic,” he said, in between hugging everyone in sight. “I was thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, am I gonna make it?’”

Cato said she felt dreadful not reaching the final after the effort she put into Dido’s “White Flag” and “Memory” from “Cats.” She vowed to return next year.

“If they think for one second I’m gonna come in fifth, I’ll kill ’em — well, in my sleep,” she said with a laugh.