#A Very Potter Sequel

[gryffindorcompaniononpigfarts]

The AVPs will always have a special place in my heart but my favorite has to be Starship. Those puppets! The lyrics! A Lang on stage! I love Starship so much.

[hatchetfieldtheories]

[rockrosethistle]

it's a Darren Criss song if the lyrics are serious but the actors are just having fun with it

it's a Jeff Blim song if the lyrics are insane but the actors are taking it completely seriously

[hipsternumbertwo]

An Age & An Age: Celebrating 15 Years of SK! [Cinderella's Castle Kickstarter]

[justarandombrit]

Is this meme still around?

[paloma-ascends-into-hellfire]

starkid rly went from "oh my wizard god" to "god is dead" to "ok jesus christ i don't know what's going on here" to "god is a vicious two-faced prick" to "oh, sweetheart, there is no god" to "actually there are six gods and they're the lords in black and a queen in white"

[kairithemang0]

Whatever gender Joey Richter is is the gender I require

[violetwolfraven]

Wait wait wait remember that post about how Team Starkid/the Lang brothers are going to be comparable to Shakespeare 500 years from now and it was mostly played for laughs like yeah lol you’ll need a paragraph of footnotes to explain the zefron poster but like

I don’t think that’s actually far off from how Starkid’s place in theatre history might play out and here’s why. Just hear me out

Why is Shakespeare so popular today when he definitely wasn’t the only playwright from that era? When he’s not even the only playwright from that era from England that we have surviving works from?

Two main reasons:

1) Shakespeare’s work is (relatively) universally relatable. The characters do things that are so fundamentally human. They make jokes at their friends’ expense. They complain about being awkward in front of their crush. They have daddy issues. The plot lines of the plays aren’t too complicated. The dick jokes land whether you’re watching in 1611 or 2024, and they probably still will in 2637. Shakespeare’s works are timeless because he didn’t try to outsmart his audience. He wrote about things everyone could relate to rather than trying too hard to peacock his intellect in front of the nobility. This is not true of every playwright.

2) Shakespeare was really popular right around the time England started colonizing everything in sight. Copies of his work got shipped all around the world, translated into dozens of languages, performed probably thousands of times. Setting aside the moral implications of this, the important thing to note is that Shakespeare was about the most easily accessible English playwright during a time of rapid, intense globalization.

Meanwhile, Starkid:

1) Invests hard in meaningful, relatable character arcs instead of spectacle and expensive sets or costumes. Also, lowbrow, immature humor and dick jokes that make A Very Potter Sequel funny and enjoyable regardless of if you’ve ever seen any other Harry Potter media in your life.

2) Posts professional recordings of their musicals to YouTube FOR FREE, making their shows about the easiest, best quality musical theatre you can get pretty much anywhere in the world, regardless of if your area has an active theatre scene. Proshots from other companies are rare and usually not free. Bootlegs are all well and good, but even if the video quality is alright (and that’s a big if) the audio is usually garbage. Starkid has been posting the best quality free recordings they can afford since 2009, shortly after the birth of social media, another time of rapid, intense globalization.

In short, I’m not saying that theatre historians in 500 years won’t remember any our current Broadway faves, but I am saying that in my opinion, Team Starkid is probably going to be more accessible for the general public. If you’re a 26th century English teacher trying to teach your class about narrative structure in 21st century theatre, what are you going to show your students? A bootleg of Hadestown with blurry video and garbage audio? Or the professional recording of Twisted, parts of which they will probably even enjoy, because even long after no one remembers Disney’s Aladdin anymore, your class of 26th century 16-year-olds are still going to laugh at “No One Remembers Achmed.”

[ashtxeman]

Lost my mind yesterday watching AVPS and seeing James Tolbert in the credits like WOW that man has been there since the start and people need to put some recognition on his name BAD. GIVE THAT MAN THE RESPECT HE DESERVES. I LOVE YOU JAMES TOLBERT.

[average-book-enjoyer]

Happy 14th Birthday to this image <3

@hatchetfieldtheories thank you for your service to the community

[starkidsbackbababababa]

Sad that Starkid Innit didn’t get a full recorded version for the fans who didn’t get to see it…

Or did it?!

No, it did not, BUT this is my best attempt at a full show edit, using both performances to make the most authentic and easily watchable edit of the show!

[mori221c]

avpm💖

[aithusiel]

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[isogenderskitty]

people who’ve only seen hatchetfield: starkid has like practically no gay characters :/

the avp trilogy which has been sitting right there for probably most of their lives and is the foundation of everything:

plus these less explicit more headcanony (but like, BARELY) examples that i really think are worth mentioning as well, i have receipts don’t tempt me i will literally make an entire video about this stuff (and i might actually):

[its-a-geeks-world]