StarKid distributes their musicals for free on YouTube, with recent projects being funded by Kickstarter and physical ticket sales.
Since the success of A Very Potter Musical, the group has produced thirteen stage musicals (including two Potter sequels), three national tours, two reunion concert specials, a concert in London, three sketch comedy shows, and three web series.
The members met while collaborating on plays through Basement Arts, the university's student-run theater organization.
[3] Inspired by the viral nature of the video, StarKid Productions was formed, named after a quote from A Very Potter Musical.
[6] Aside from the viral Harry Potter adaptions, Team StarKid has produced a number of other musical theatre parody shows, creating both original stories and pop culture-based parodies of Disney, DC Comics, Star Wars and The Oregon Trail.
StarKid and its members are associated with various other theater groups, most notably Tin Can Brothers and Shipwrecked Comedy.
It tells the story of Bug, a resident of a planet inhabited by insects, who dreams of becoming a Starship Ranger.
It is Based on the 1992 Disney film Aladdin, the tale of One Thousand and One Nights, as well as the musical Wicked.
[14] Based on the Star Wars series, the story centers around Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader.
In the show, audience members get to choose the names of the characters as well as decide on the musical's ending.
Set in the prehistoric era, the story features Zazzalil, who in pursuit of simplifying everyone's lives comes up with inventions and discovers fire in the process.
In the musical, Black Friday shoppers are overcome with an overwhelming desire to obtain a "Wiggly" doll, to the point of killing anyone who gets in their way.
In the musical, a plan by a group of nerds to fight back against a bully backfires when they become haunted by his murderous ghost with a vendetta against "nerdy prudes".
[15] In November 2024, an updated production ran at the Apollo Theatre in Chicago again with three new cast members and revised staging, but no new story elements were added.
[17] The musical is a dark retelling of the classic damsel-in-distress fairy tale with an original 80s-esque "synth-pop" soundtrack, elaborate puppetry, and a cast of 10.
The real life Workin' Boys depicts the events leading up to as well as during the staging of his musical.
"SPACE" in the tour title stands for StarKid Precarious Auditory Concert Experience.
The show was a parody of various pieces of 1990s pop culture centering on the exploits of a fictional boy band, 3Ever.
In 2007, members including Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Eric Kahn Gale, Brian Holden, Darren Criss, Lauren Lopez, Elona Love (née Finlay), Chris Allen, Meredith Stepien, and Jim Povolo produced an online video series called Little White Lie.
[29] Despite the series ending in a cliffhanger, StarKid members have confirmed at various events that there will be no season 2, as it was an expensive production and the actors who took part in it are scattered all over the country.
However, Eric Kahn Gale, one of the writers for the show, stated that he would write and publish a synopsis of season 2, which was released on September 3, 2013, on his Tumblr page.
The series takes place in an alternate world where every popular movie ever has been adapted into a Broadway musical.
The best of these musicals all star the same man, Halpert Evans, a vain and pompous, though brilliant, actor.
The series is structured as a mockumentary of Evans, chronicling the most significant musical roles of his career, along with commentary from various colleagues in Halpert's line of work.
The series introduces StarKid newcomers Esther Fallick as Halpert Evans and Mary Kate Wiles as Judy Davendale.
Joey Richter, Nick Lang, Brian Holden, Dylan Saunders, Lauren Lopez, Jaime Lyn Beatty, Corey Dorris, and Clark Baxtresser also star.
On October 1, 2020, StarKid announced a new three-episode horror anthology series set in the world of The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals and Black Friday.
[34][non-primary source needed] The episodes were released weekly on StarKid's YouTube channel between May 20, 2022, and June 10, 2022.