Starkid got there start when they created there first musical, "A Very Potter Musical." The musical is a parody based on the 4th, 6th, and 7th Harry Potter books. "A Very Potter Musical" is based as Harry's 4th year of Hogwarts, but things go wrong when the new defense against the dark arts teacher, Professor Quirell, comes and resurrects an old tournament, the house cup tournament. This tournament is when one boy or girl from each house competes for the house cup and for eternal fame and glory (but Harry already has that). The competitors from each house were: Cho Chang from Ravenclaw, Cedric Diggory from Hufflepuff, and Draco Malfoy from Slytherin. Throughout the year, Harry has to complete three tasks to win the house cup tournament. The first, is to fight a dragon! While the other competitors got nice, cute dragons like Figment, Mushu, and Puff, Harry got stuck with the Hungarian Horntail (the most terrifying thing you will ever see). It's no worry for the supermegafoxyawesomehot (Starkid made up word) Harry Potter. He serenades the dragon with a song to make him fall asleep, then beats the dragon. After that, Hogwarts holds its annual dance, the Yule Ball. The ball doesn't go as planned for Harry and Cedric, but goes just the way Quirell wanted it to. If you have seen the movies or read the books,you would have figured out by now that Voldemort is attached to the back of Quirell's head. They planted a special ladle in the punch bowl that would transport Harry to a graveyard where he would meet Voldemort face to face so that Voldemort could essentially kill him. That plan didn't work very well when Cedric got mad at Harry and went to hit him with the punch ladle. They were both transported to the graveyard where Cedric was killed immediately. Low and behold, Voldemort comes back and Harry isn't killed, but returns to Hogwarts with Cedric's body screaming: "HE'S BACK, VOLDEMORT IS BACK!" That is the end of Act 1, minus all of the good punchlines and jokes that would only be funny if you were watching the musical.
Act 2 is when things start to get a little darker and more serious. Harry knows that he has to defeat Voldemort...AGAIN. The problem is, nobody believes Harry when he says that Voldemort is back (that sounds familiar, oh yeah, Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix). Of course, since nobody listened to Harry, Voldemort rises to power and needs to get into Hogwarts. Who better than to help him then good old Professor Snape and Draco Malfoy. Dumbledore tells Harry that the only way to destroy Voldemort is to destroy all of the Horcruxes. Conveniently, he has destroyed 6 of them for Harry already so he only has to find the last one. Draco is ordered to kill Dumbledore, but is to cowardly to do the job, so it falls onto Snape to complete the task. Long story short, Voldemort gets into Hogwarts and starts taking over, giving Harry very little time to figure out his game plan. Harry decides that the only way to save his friends is to go die. When Harry tries to get Voldemort to kill him, he finds Dumbledore halfway in between heaven and real life. He tells him that Harry was the last Horcrux and that he was still alive. Harry then goes back to Hogwarts to go save his friends and classmates from Voldemort. The other students, including Ron, Hermione, Draco, Neville, etc. are all barricading the door from Voldemort, yet somehow Harry gets in the room. Voldemort then just walks around the door (literally) and sees that Harry is standing there. While in half heaven half life, Harry learned that the only way to keep himself and his friends alive is to create a love shield, blocking Voldemort's dark powers, just like Harry's mom did to save him. The shield worked and the killing curse was bounced off of Harry and instead killed Voldemort. In the end, everything ended happily ever after!
I love this musical, and personally it is my favorite of the Harry Potter trilogy that Starkid created. Yes, it is cheese and you cant really hear them because they didn't have microphones while performing the show. But their passion to make it the best show was so high that nothing else even mattered. The songs in this musical were all written by Darren Criss, who played Harry, and AJ Holmes, who plays the piano in the live band.
If you want to read Starkid's description of their play, click on the link! http://www.teamstarkid.com/avpm.html
Here you will also be able to find descriptions to their other shows, links to their merchandise store, and direct YouTube links to Act 1 Part 1 of "A Very Potter Musical"!!!
If you would like to check out any other Starkid musicals, here is the link to their YouTube channel as well: WARNING, STARKID MUSICALS ARE ALL RATED PG-13.
http://www.youtube.com/feed/UC3d3_X0dUnt8YXVKyqr-XLA
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