Starkid Productions - Summary

Before the days of Glee, Darren Criss (Blaine) was a humble student at Michigan University who had a dream. One day, he decided he wanted to start a theatre company within the University and so got his friends Brian Holden, Matt Lang and Nick Lang together and Starkid was born!

In 2009, the boys showed their first musical. They combined their talent and love of Harry Potter to create A Very Potter Musical and with the help of their friends in the Theatre, Music & Dance department of their University created one of the best American musicals of the 21st century.

Since 2009, Starkid have gone on to create five more musicals including a sequel to AVPM and are due to release the third of the Very Potter Musical series in the near future. Their latest musical, Holy Musical Batman, has had over 900,000 views on youtube since it's release in the spring. The group have had to successful US tours and have been the main attraction at LeakyCon for the past two years.

Starkid Productions is one of my favourite theatre groups of all time. They combine my love for the Harry Potter franchise with music. Darren Criss is now a pin up for all Gleeks having been in the show for 2 years playing Blaine Anderson and Starkid Productions is now an established theatre company based in Chicago. A lot of the members of Starkid Productions are involved in a side project called Jim and the Povolos (named after the Starkid member Jim Povolo) and released their first EP earlier this year.

Check out Starkid if you love cheesy music that makes you smile all day, they really are all geniuses in their own special way and they are a theatre group that deserve a place in everyone's hearts.

To go to Starkid's website, click here: http://www.teamstarkid.com/
To listen to Jim and the Povolos, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv2VnniCp6o&feature=related