Review Wednesday: A Very Potter Senior Year

I know I normally do books for Review Wednesday, but since I’m such a huge fan I’m taking a week for Starkid! Whoo!!

After years of waiting, A Very Potter Senior Year is now on youtube for the general public to watch. If you aren’t a Starkid fan you should be. If you have never heard of Starkid, go on youtube right now and watch A Very Potter Musical. It is a parody of the Harry Potter books. They also did a show called Holy Musical B@man! Basically, I love Starkid.

Anyway, A Very Potter Senior Year came out in March and I had a little freak out spaz moment. Then I watched it. I laughed, I cried, I randomly danced. I loved that it was jus the raw read through because you got to see the actual reactions of the actors and the fact that they had so little time to prepare proves how talented the entire cast and crew really is.

I have listened to the soundtrack at least 100 times and I can’t find a singular favorite because all of the songs are memorable and unique, but I have to say “The School is Mine” with Lauren Lopez and Darren Criss, “I’m Just a Sidekick” with Joey Richter, and “Get in My Mouth” with Jeff Blim really stick out to me.

This addition to the Potter musical tradition added in characters like Hagrid, Aragog, Gilderoy Lockhart, and the Basilisk all of whom were taken in amusing interpretations. Evanna Lynch who plays Luna in the Potter movies is officially a Starkid, joining the team as Luna in the musicals (and she has a lovely singing voice)

My only complaint about the videos is that Darren’s microphone has a weird sound to it throughout and in the first few scenes it is very distracting, but you get used to it really quickly.

Other questions about the musical: When did Tom Riddle become attractive–oh that’s right, because Joe Walker is playing him. And why is the most seductive song sung by a spider? Oh wait, this is Starkid!

Overall I think it wrapped up the series well and I am very excited for their next project “Twisted” the classic Aladdin tale from a different perspective.

If you aren’t a Starkid, give them a try and get hooked!