A Very Potter Senior Year

A Very Potter Senior Year
MusicClark Baxtresser
Pierce Siebers
A. J. Holmes
LyricsClark Baxtresser
Pierce Siebers
A. J. Holmes
BookMatt Lang
Nick Lang
Brian Holden
BasisHarry Potter
by J. K. Rowling
Productions2012 LeakyCon
Awards

A Very Potter Senior Year (often shortened to AVPSY) is a musical written by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden with songs by Clark Baxtresser, Pierce Siebers, A. J. Holmes, and additional songs by Darren Criss.[1] It is the conclusion of the Very Potter trilogy of Harry Potter-inspired musicals produced over four years by StarKid Productions. Rather than a full musical, as with its previous installments, the production took the form of a live staged reading of the script with performances of the songs at LeakyCon in Chicago, Illinois, on August 11, 2012.[2] It featured nearly all of the StarKid actors and actresses who had starred in previous StarKid shows to date, including actor Darren Criss, who returned to the company to reprise his role as Harry Potter, and Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood, who played the character in the original film series.

The script and soundtrack became available in December 2012, and official footage of the musical was released on the StarKid YouTube channel on March 15, 2013. In March 2013, it had reached over 400,000 views, making the StarKid Productions page the most viewed of the month[3] and has gone on to reach over 600,000 views.[4] On the YouTube recording, Darren Criss' microphone did not record and, consequently, all of his audio had to be pulled from different mics.[5] The story is a parody, based on several of the Harry Potter novels (particularly Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) by J. K. Rowling, as well as their film counterparts.

  1. ^ "A Very Potter Senior Year Script". Archived from the original on May 17, 2013.
  2. ^ "Only at LeakyCon: 'A Very Potter Senior Year'". Archived from the original on July 19, 2012.
  3. ^ A Very Potter Senior Year Act 1 Part 1
  4. ^ A Very Potter Senior Year Act 2 Part 6
  5. ^ "Audio Interview: StarKid creators Matt and Nick Lang on 'A Very Potter Senior Year' • Hypable". Hypable. April 2, 2013. Retrieved May 30, 2019.