#a very potter musicals

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

EVERYONE was great and fun but A Very Potter Senior Year truly belongs to Joey Richter/Ron. The man and the moment and the One Who Stole The Show.

Post-Now-Send-Tweet.

[notsosaucystuff]

[foxglove-woods]

what if sorty and scarfy had little sock and mitten kids. what then.

in other words the avpt hyperfixation is resurfacing

[milo-igidk]

put your clothes back on were going to talk about how musicals are the best media to adapt books in cause its the only one that allows the characters to express their feelings and internal monologue as they do on page

[willowparkfanclub]

15 years ago darren criss got on stage with nothing but a chopstick wand, a sharpie lighting scar, a guitar and a dream and i think thats beautiful

[alicornze7]

Silly guys goin' on silly adventures:]

@rorydrawsandwrites's puppeteer au but the only difference is that jax gives consent

My contribution to this wonderful au has been long overdue:')

Rambling in tags ehe (cw: ribbun:p)

Well maybe it's not the only difference

[moonytoastatmidnight]

Currently thinking about how the YouTube release of AVPM was literally an ACCIDENT and now Team Starkid has had 15 years of productions and established a fandom around the world. I can't wait to see where they go from here.

[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.”

[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"

[ender-of-the-sender]

HAPPY B-DAY NICK!!!

Absolutely the silliest guy ever <33

[daisey14]

starkid captions please never change

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

For a parody Harry Potter musical that was made with such obvious love for the source material and then performed wayyy back in 2012, AVPSY has aged... surprisingly well?

It's set in a world in which people no longer like Harry Potter (for reasons that often have less to do with HP himself/itself than you would think) and is ultimately a story about letting go of things that are no longer helpful or good for you, even if that means letting go of Harry after so many years of loving him.

Like, it's not perfectly tailored to the current situation, not by a long shot, but it feels surprisingly prescient all the same.

[cursedcrazy-starkid]

Cinderellas Castle “spoilers” without content because it’s actually other Starkid shows🏰

[geese-in-a-frock-coat]

What people don't get when they try and recreate a very potter musical with other films is that the purpose of AVPM wasn't solely to make fun of the harry potter films. I see other parady musicals, and whilst I don't want to suggest that people aren't putting a lot of time and effort into these, they seem to just focus on parody. But the absolute joy with AVPM is that whilst you get these incredibly stupid gags that take the piss on Harry Potter, like Quirell and Voldy back to back in this huge cloak and Dumbledore putting all the good guys in gryffindor etc. - and the whole thing is just so silly I'm amazed it's held up this long - but you also get these incredible moments of heart where it almost forgets that it's a harry potter parody musical and starts to become its own thing entirely. Like for the whole series they wrote real, incredible love songs and villain songs and flipping power ballads and there are so many moments where you're on the brink of tears. Because they really could have just made a musical where they made fun of Harry Potter in a way that didn't matter and so many of those scenes could have just been another joke but I think the fact that they didn't is what seperates Starkid from so many other parody musicals because like yeah Harry Potter is stupid and Disney movies have a lot of stupid stuff in them and yes bug puppet shows are completely ridiculous but they are so totally committed to being these proper, well constructed pieces of theatre that sometimes when I'm listening to everything ends I forget it comes right after a gag about Lily and James Potter getting divorced in Heaven and right before a load of gags about the sorting hat and a scarf of sexual preference hooking up.

[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]