StarKid Productions

StarKid Productions (also Team StarKid) is a musical theater company based out of Los Angeles, CA. They were formed at the University of Michigan in 2009, moved to Chicago in 2011, and moved to LA in 2017. 
As of May 2020, StarKid have performed and released to YouTube 12 musicals, produced two sketch comedy shows at Chicago’s Second City, gone on two national tours, and released 13 albums.teamstarkid.com, Musicals, Comedy Shows, Tours Albums 
See the official Wikipedia page for more details.
==Mission==
According to their website:
==Shows==
StarKid rose to fame with their 2009 Harry Potter parody A Very Potter Musical (starring Darren Criss, pre-Glee), and since then they have remained true to their parodying ways, in addition to writing original musicals.
Their other shows are:
Musicals
* Me and My Dick (2009)
*A Very Potter Sequel (2010)
*Starship (2011)
*Holy Musical B@man! (2012)
*A Very Potter 3D: A Very Potter Senior Year (2013)
*Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier (2013)
*ANI: A Parody (2014)
*The Trail to Oregon! (2014)
*Firebringer (2016)
*The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals (2018)
*Black Friday (2019)
*A VHS Christmas Carol (2020)
*Nerdy Prudes Must Die (2023)
*Cinderella's Castle (2024)
Sketch Comedy
*Airport for Birds [And Other Great Ideas] (2013)
*1 Night 2 Last 3 Ever (2014)
Concert Tours
*The SPACE Tour (November 2011)
*Apocalyptour (May-June 2012)
*Jangle Ball Tour (December 2022)
Web Videos
*Movies, Musicals, and Me
*Little White Lie
Zoomcasts
*Nightmare Time Episode 1: The Hatchetfield Ape-Man and Watcher World
*Nightmare Time Episode 2: Forever & Always and Time Bastard
*Nightmare Time Episode 3: Jane's A Car and The Witch In The Web
Some of StarKid's other fannish works include parodies of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, (here, most footage is now lost), and Sherlock and Doctor Who sketches at the Quidditch World Cup in 2013. An "improvised parody" sketch called Yes, I AM Afraid of the Dark was performed in fall 2015.Team Starkid presents: Yes, I AM Afraid of the Dark
During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, Starkid has livestreamed readings of several film scripts, including Scream, Hocus Pocus, and Addams Family Values.
==Fandom/Interaction==
StarKid has developed a small but loyal fandom of their own, and StarKid has appropriately remained very engaged with fans online and offline. They have hosted Google Hangouts,YouTube, Team StarKid "Hangouts On Air" Playlist most of their important announcements come as YouTube videos, and their Twitter account is very active.
They also regularly attend fan events, especially in the Harry Potter fandom,They have attended the last six LeakyCon/GeekyCons, and performed A Very Potter Senior Year at LeakyCon 2012. and they usually stayed after SPACE Tour and Apocalyptour shows to meet fans.LaurenLopez1, It was so great to meet some of you before and after the show!, 7 June 2012sarahhahearnn, I was able to see them come out after SPACE tour, tweet on 13 May 2012
An article on Storyboard addresses the appeal of StarKid and its fandom:
StarKid's shows in Chicago regularly sold out, but to protect fans who were unable to make it to the shows in person, attendees were asked not to reveal anything about the show before it was posted to YouTube.geekchic0017, March 24, 2012 Tumblr post says, "I can’t give you any specifics about the show (confidentiality agreement)" The Trail To Oregon! included an audience-participation element, where audience members voted to see which character would die at the end; to give internet fans this same experience, StarKid recorded and published each death, so internet viewers can choose for themselves (or, in most cases, watch them all).
Starkid has made several of their shows available to fans during their original runs through digital tickets, where fans can pay to stream an unedited recording of the show for several days. The practice is generally positively received by the fandom, many of whom see it as a way to make the original runs accessible to people who cannot see them in person. Sharing or bootlegging a digital ticket is widely discouraged, especially considering a tweet where the team said that if people were just going to bootleg digital tickets, they wouldn't release them anymore.Everyone just be cool, m'kay?, tweet from @TeamStarKid, November 7, 2019 Some fans count GIFing content from them or including footage in compilation videos on Youtube as bootlegging.
Starting with Twisted, StarKid began to fund their musicals through Kickstarter. Their Kickstarter campaign for their tenth anniversary, which funded the Starkid Homecoming reunion concert as well as their upcoming horror comedy musical Black Friday, raised $547,439, making it the most funded theater Kickstarter campaign as of May 2019. StarKid's 10niversary Celebration, Kickstarter
Twisted, Firebringer, and The Trail to Oregon can all be licensed for production.Licensing, teamstarkid.com. Both Firebringer and the Trail to Oregon have all ages editions that cut out some swearing and sexual content and cuts can be made to Twisted. The Very Potter Musical trilogy will never be available for licensing due to an agreement with Warner Brothers that only Team Starkid can perform them. There are plans to license The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, but it is not yet available as of March 2021.
=References=
Category:Theater Category:Starkid