#26 See Starkid Live

It's Sunday.  The last day of summer.  The last 30 before 30 post of the summer.  I have to say this one might be the favorite from the summer!  Although if you don't know who Starkid is you might not be as excited that this happened as I am.  So let's start with the basics ;)

Starkid is a group from the University of Michigan...yes Michigan :( (Go Buckeyes!!!!!!!!!!).  In 2009, while still in school, they produced and preformed A Very Potter Musical. It was a musical adaption of the Potter books meshed together in a hilarious and thought-provoking way.  They put the production online and it was only a matter of time before it went viral.  Since then they have preformed and put online more original pieces of work as well as A Very Potter Sequel and most recently Holy Musical B@tman.

Part of BSE (Best Summer Ever) 2012 Ashely and I decided to make a return visit to Leakycon.  About a couple months before the event we were told that Starkid was going to be doing a stage reading of the third and last installment of the the Potter musicals: A Very Potter 3D: A Very Potter Senior Year.  I can't put into words how excited I was for this!  Even if it was just going to be a stage reading I was going to get to see Starkid live and I couldn't wait.

On the day of the event it was crazy.  They were pulling people in small groups at a time.  I was lucky and ended up being one of the first groups in and got okay seats.  And for those of you who don't know... "Okay is WONDERFUL!!"  But in all seriousness my seats were awesome!  When the show started they informed us that they decided they were going to do the full show...not just a stage reading!  Yes they had scripts in their hands (since they were only all together 3 days before they preformed).  Yes it was 4 1/2 hours long.  Yes it wasn't perfect.  But to me and everyone else in that room it was "All that I love and all that I need."  There were parts that I was laughing so hard it made me cry.  The end was so sweet and thoughtful that I found myself crying real tears.

I don't know how this group of amazing women and men think of shows and music and are able to put it all together in a way that makes you laugh and think.  I also don't know why more people don't know more about them!  So for those of you who have never heard of Starkid or for those of you who love them, check out the video below.  It is the very first scene from A Very Potter Musical.  It is "Totally Awesome!"

Ps- I forgot to tell you!  While at Leakycon I was able to meet them all and get their autographs.  So I was able to add them to my autograph wall in my classroom.  Also on my plane back to LA one of the members of Starkid was on it.  At baggage claim I went up to him just to say thank you for everything they did this weekend.  I don't know why I was so nervous but he was really sweet and didn't make me feel like a loser for approaching him.  And the biggie was that Tom Felton (who plays Draco Malfoy in the real Potter films) was also on my plane.  I wanted to yell out "Did someone say Draco Malfoy?" to him but I didn't...although that would have been a story, no?