In the beginning, God and Darren Criss created Harry Potter: The Musical, a madcap Harry Potter parody originally performed at the University of Michigan in 2009. The musical, cowritten by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden and produced by StarKid Productions, arrived on YouTube that summer and quickly went viral, inspiring a 2010 sequel that helped to launch Criss into mainstream stardom. (Its popularity also inspired a name change meant to stave off the litigious Warner Bros; that’s why you now know the show as A Very Potter Musical.)
Potter’s Harry soon joined the cast of Glee, and StarKid...
Potter’s Harry soon joined the cast of Glee, and StarKid...
- 3/18/2013
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
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