A Very Potter Musical FULL Reaction

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April Nicole

YES! would love to see you two react to more Starkid Musicals, id recommend Twisted, Firebringer, Trail to Oregon, and the 3 musicals in the Hatchetfield series. there's also another theater group with some of the same Starkid members in it(Tin Can Bros) and I recommend the Musical Spies Never Die from them.

FroggyLad

CatsandCrafts

Yes, absolutely, do more. There are 3 StarKid Potter 'productions' though the 3rd is more of a stage reading, but they have other FANTASTIC musicals / parodies as well.

Viola.S1

from Starkid - you could react to "The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals" but it mostly makes sense if you know typical musical tropes ... and its sequel "Black Friday"

Viera Galikova

It would be amazing if you saw the next two very Potter plays. The third one just a heads up is preformed live in leaky con and only had three days to prepare for the play. They have scripts but they pull it off amazingly super great. Can't wait to see you watch the other shows they did as well.

Ashly Heilmann

Oh my god what a surprise 🤩

Sofia W

I’d really like to suggest either Into the woods (2014) or Chicago the musical both are fantastic ❤️

Emily G

This is such a nice surprise! Takes me back to your brother and cousin reacting to this on their channel 😉1 Btw, your song in the beginning is awesome but that reminds me of the iconic "Harry Potter in 99 seconds" video: Original: https://youtu.be/y57sYHIDP_Y?si=GWj6Ei5_fTEn1Ny5 With lyrics https://youtu.be/N9U_jFImWds?si=vcfstIEIuHg24hm6 With video: https://youtu.be/iu3IuyE0vLc?si=zBL4cuEI1HOrIEKh Lego Stop Motion: https://youtu.be/1ECJINd9MHw?si=EGuWSjYYcmu3thCE This is produced by StarKid Productions (also known as Team StarKid), an American musical theatre company founded in 2009 at the University of Michigan by Darren Criss (Harry), Brian Holden, Matt Lang and Nick Lang. Since the success of AVPM, the group has produced 13 stage musicals, including two sequels to this — A Very Potter Sequel and A Very Potter Senior Year (the last one even had Evanna Lynch reprise her role as Luna Lovegood). Music and lyrics are by Darren Criss and A. J. Holmes (piano player). The idea for the musical came from the founders of Team Starkid when reading the Goblet of Fire and wondering what would've happened if Draco had fallen in love with Hermione at the Yule Ball, which led to the concept of the song "Granger Danger". In spite of there being a group of HP fans that ship "Dramonie", as they are called, and loads of fanfics written about them (even before this came out), J.K. Rowling has said there were never any intentions or hints of Draco having any sort of romantic/sexual feelings for Hermione. As for Bellatrix and Voldemort, there have always been speculations that Bella was in love with Voldy (probably not reciprocated because Voldy was incapable of love) but never actually mentioned in the books or films - That is, until Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which so far is only out as a book and a stage production and takes place following the "19 years later" part in Deathly Hallows. There, it is revealed they actually had an illegitimate daughter called Delphini, after a one-night fling, who was born shortly before they died at the battle of Hogwarts. The show is a combination of the 1st, 4th, 6th and 7th books but obviously with a lot of differences and twists. It was originally called Harry Potter: The Musical and was performed at the University of Michigan on April 9th-11th 2009. Soon after, they posted the entire musical on YouTube. Following potential legal action from Warner Brothers, the show was taken down and edited to make it less inappropriate for the younger audiences, but was posted again, slightly edited and the name was changed due to copyright. Due to the nature of the musical, Team Starkid is allowed to host the musical on their channel and owns the rights to the songs and script, but as they do not own the rights to HP characters they cannot make money off of the production, nor can they give the rights for the show to any other production company. Fun facts: Both Darren Criss (Harry) and A.J. Holmes (co-composer/piano player) would later go on to star in leading roles on Broadway — Darren Criss as J. Pierrepont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (funnily enough, he actually replaced Daniel Radcliffe) and the titular character in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and A.J. Holmes as Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon. Darren Criss is also famous for his role as Blaine Anderson on Glee and for his role as serial killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the latter in which he won a Golden Globe and an Emmy. He's also a singer/songwriter and has released a few albums. Joey Richter and Lauren Lopez, who play Ron and Draco respectively, are married in real life. Joey Richter was cast as Ron almost immediately after finding a tacky red wig in a thrift store and trying it on for fun. The original stage production began with Bonnie Wright (Ginny in the films) narrating a prologue where the audience sees Voldemort murdering Harry's parents. The scene where Draco uses an Unbreakable Vow to trick Voldemort into becoming his slave for a day was improvised during rehearsal, then later added to the show. This explains Voldemort's response "that's the second time that's happened!" Rumbleroar asking Dumbledore if he remembered his spacesuit was ad-libbed by Jim Povolo (Goyle) because Dylan Saunders (Dumbledore) forgot his line. Before Dylan Saunders (Dumbledore) joined the cast, Joe Walker (Voldemort) was intended to play both Voldemort and Dumbledore. Brian Rosenthal (Quirrell) was at one point considered for the role of Harry and Lauren Lopez (Draco) was considered for Hermione. Ron wears a headband because Joey Richter found that it helped the wig stay on better. Lastly, speaking of Zac Efron, I recommend 17 Again, which stars Matthew Perry as well, and the High School Musical series with Quynh if she's interested (I know you watched the first two HSM with someone else). And She's All That, though it doesn't star Zac Efron, is a good late 90s chick flick too, starring Freddie Prince Jr. (who, if you don't know, is married to Sarah Michelle Gellar aka Buffy).

Heida

And I would love to hear why you stopped Umbrella Academy

Wayne Cox

Omg I just screamed only seeing the notification. Without even having watched it yet, I would love for you to do all three (as you might be able to tell from my profile picture - which is Harry and Ron from this musical - I love the Starkid shows) Addition: Starkid is a production company that started when they all went to Michigan college. They filmed it simply for them to enjoy and uploded it on YouTube to share it among the cast and their family. It became a huge hit to their surprise. Starkid has since become a full on production company and has as of 2024 produced 13 full musicals. Darren Criss (who plays Harry) has since turned into a multi award winning actor.

Regina

A Very Potter Sequel is somehow even better! Love the reaction ❤️ thanks for everything y'all do

Lina D