FIRST TIME WATCHING: A Very Potter Sequel …Umbridge is the GOAT 

Honestly when I watch the Harry Potter films I'm always disappointed that he doesn't do any ballet

I 1000% believe Lucius and/or Sirius did ballet

I believe he’s supposed to be based off of Jareth from “Labyrinth”

@@SailorDoom21 How did you make this better???!!

They have a Third part named "A very Potter Senior Year". You must watch too, they made it on the Comic Con!!

To be fair that was me as a teen too 😂😂

Book 5 in particular lol

Which is funny because i always tbought this was reference to Movie 3 when hes like "Im gonna kill him!!"

I mean, tbf, he’s a teenager with trauma that keeps getting thrown into life-threatening situations over and over because he has a hero complex and feels like he has to save everyone even though no one should have a responsibility like that thrown onto them. Let alone a twelve-year-old kid

It’s pretty awesome

@@whitenoisereacts No, it's totally awesome 😂

No it’s FREAKING AWESOME

I will ALWAYS be bemused and dazzled by theater, regardless if I know the name of the God in the machine. And my wife HAAAAAATES it lol. She says I'm just too shiny and new for cynicism.

Time stamp?

His wig was slipping because he had a shaved head from a different show haha!

He was wearing it throughout the first play so I thought it was cute to have Harry give it to him :)

I know right?? Hearing her do a similar voice in “Black Friday” like triggered a potent nostalgia in me it really took me a second

@@SailorDoom21 Especially with the blonde wig there were a couple times where I saw Draco instead of Linda. XD

nobody says "candy lady" quite like lauren

My personal favourite is him in Twisted, like the emotion in that song is unmatched imo. Kick it up a Notch is a really close second tho

@@bellac6311 Twisted is definitely Dylan's best work to date. Second, for me, has to be Black Friday. Dylan's songs in that as Tom are just next level good. "If I Fail You" is my favorite song of the show.

Also Dylan singing the intro to Holy Musical B@tman! Is one of the main reasons that song is as good as it is!

@@bellac6311 I like his voice in Happy Ending from Twisted. Soooo good.

@@K5to9X Happy ending as well as the climax in the song Twisted are just chefs kiss

Fun Fact: The Original Draft of AVPS was very close to The Cursed Child. However, Matt and Nick Lang, upon a full read through, decided that it was too Fan-Ficcy, threw it out, and re-wrote it into the AVPS we have today.

@@ForeverDegenerate And I prefer it so much! (Also the ending scene in AVPSY: for me his name will always be Albus Severus Scarfy Potter)

@@franziskasanders3943 They didn't use Severus in AVPSY. The replaced it with Scarfy.

@@ForeverDegenerate I know but I mix the two in my head often.

@@franziskasanders3943 You're not the only one... >.>

Well Darren DID say that AJ Holmes is practically a Virtuoso.

I FIND this to be very interesting

Oh wow I couldn't even tell!

@@indigo6067 What was that!?

How the heck was I today years old when I learned this

Omg how did I not know this.

Have you seen the Percy Jackson fan musical? It’s amazing and has done a much better job than the movie franchise just like you said

@@Melanie-jy2nw YES

@@Melanie-jy2nw what’s the fan musical called?

@@theomeadows2946 it’s called “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical”

@@Melanie-jy2nw isn’t that like.....legit? that was off-broadway and then on broadway, I don’t think it was fan made unless you’re talking about another musical with the same name

It’s all about UMBRIDGE

Love how you just listed all the antagonists

Yeah I still wish they could somehow come together to do it with a full production... but money and they any charge for tickets due to the fact they don’t own the rights to Harry Potter... but still love it so much.

@@EK_Beast You can charge tickets for a parody show, but it has to be done without using direct original content. So no actors from the original, no props from the original, no decor from the original. You're probably thinking about DBZA or Yugioh Abridged since those are the most famous parodies of a show, but both shows dont use original drawings for 99.999% of their production. Thats why they cannot be monetized directly.

Also, the tie was apaid actor 😅

No worries, I’m still excited!!

Don't forget they managed to get Evanna Lynch to join them as Luna because that's the kind of awesome she is.

And Darren's mic didn't record..

@@gecegezgini8187 Darren's mic not recording is annoying af，but the senior year finale still has awesome songs and an interesting story made up from different chunks of the books. Plus it's got characters actually writing fanfiction

Darren Criss was inbetween shooting Glee or whatever, and most of the other Starkids also had tight schedueles due to having their own conflicting commitments, it was like a miracle for them all to clear off their scheduels for those few days at LeakyCon. Only a few days before the show was when almost all of them wound up there together, a few of them coming within a day of eachother, only to learn from the producers/writers (Brolden and the Lang brothers) that they're gonna stage this production with proper acting and costumes, as opposed to the proper reading that was originally planned. It was still in Darren's mind that they're just gonna do a normal reading, sitting together onstage and reading from the script with minimal acting, props or costumes. Darren only found out that they're staging it on the day he arrived, which was a few hours before the show itself. The Starkids had only a few days to learn their scripts, some having a bit more time than others, depending on the day they arrived. Joe Walker seems to have had significantly more time than the others, despite messing up once, he is onstage without a script more than anyone else there. Darren on the other hand, had only a few hours to learn his lines, and he was practically learning it as the show went on, and he managed to nail it throughout. As an actor, he's a fucking legend. As for production value, there's not much difference between AVPSY and AVPM, the only major difference is that in AVPSY they are reading from their scripts, while full-on acting, costumed, props and all, like in AVPM.

(From a person who has never watched the movies or read the books) It’s like I KNOW I’m not supposed to sympathize with Snape and like everything that happened to him was his own fault but every time I rewatch this musical that whole song and just the scene where snape yells sorry like I just feel so bad my heart breaks

Well if you read the books you definitely sympathize with him! You know he still did pretty bad things but you don‘t hate him

@@alenciaga21 I hate him lol. A lot of people do. Losing someone you care about isn’t an excuse to bully and abuse children. Plus he didn’t really love Lily he basically stalked her and was obsessed with her, he’s the reason she was killed which probably messes with his head but he did it to himself. He even called her a mudblood to try and look cool and for what..? You don’t do that to someone you “love” and it doesn’t give you an excuse to terrorize innocent kids

@@corneliastreet2491 I mean I agree with everything lol. But I do still sympathize with him even though I don´t like him. And I do believe that his love for Lilly was pure. He was just a toxic person but I do believe his love to be true. Not that that is an excuse for his behaviour obviously

@@alenciaga21 oh for sure, I feel for him at times, but mostly I feel sad that he made all the wrong choices and perpetuated the cycle, which sucks, because he was a talented person with a lot of potential.

Too bad they hated Red Vines. They preferred Twizzlers.

Yeah, Joey actually reveled that he prefer Twizlers

I love the Revientsts and their Tasty Tests! Turns out Red Vines can do a lot!

@@wildwesley9328 Red Vines: what the hell can't they do?

Hey, the promotion worked on me! I had never heard of red vines before, and after I first saw this musical I went out and got a pack to try…and I hated them. That’s when I learned most people are either a twizzlers person or a red vines person, and I’ve always liked twizzlers.

My life is a lie

A DUR DUR DUR DUR DUR

Yes. There have been a few comments about it lmao

And a Golden Globe ^^

@@gecegezgini8187 YES!!!

and a screen actors guild awards

To clarify, Darren wrote the songs, while Brian and Nick (and Nick's brother Matt) wrote the book.

I thought Dumbledore played Mama Umbridge? They even both say 'chillins'.

You *do* realize that they share several scenes together, right?

@@Quirderph as in the mother of Umbridge in that one scene.

I took me like a good few minute look at the replies to realise that you weren't calling umbrige mama but that you were talking about umbrige's mama

Guys like potter is my favorite song in the Sequel

Yess Bonnie is awesome

For me it was after I heard this song, that I started watching Starkid in the first place :) (I accidentally watched that whole scene in someone's animatics video and than watched the original video - that was enough to watch all the musicals)

@Martina Violic You should go watch Homecoming. She's even better 10 years later.

@@ForeverDegenerate trust me, I do that quite often lol

Same

Actually! It was on purpose! They knew they needed it for the next scene in Azkaban so they decided to do a bit where they pretended to break character and say it was "stuck with magic" to explain why it was still there. I remember nick talking about it in a livestream one time. Starkids break character/the fourth wall a lot in their comedy and it's great because you can never tell if it's real or just great acting to subvert your expectations later😂

Lmao do it! Do it!

@@whitenoisereacts love endorsing poor decisions ❤ I will Edit: it's 2:37am and I have no regrets

@@dumbraven7763 you're braver than me, I put it away after an hour at 1:30am lol

3:36 am for me and I can assure you that it was worth it 😂 totally awesome reaction on a totally awesome show

Well no wonder. They had to endure Professor Hidgens's musical pitch together. Suffering builds bonds.

Somebody saw my Top Comment on their previous video...

@@JamesMerlaut I didn't, I'm sorry xD

@@philippschafer4969 On the Musical reaction, I posted pretty much the same thing and it was the top comment.

@@JamesMerlaut how old are you tf

*i don't own any pans so I'm just going to hit my pan friend instead*

What I’d I told u we may do a Star kid marathon.....

No, it's wonderful

Agreed

@Clarissa Notini James Tolbert actually put up a video on his RU-vid Channel where he, along with a few other Starkid Members, teaches the choreography to Stutter. So anyone can learn it if they want. He also has the choreography to "Deck The Halls Of Northville High" from Black Friday on there too. The choreography for that song is complicated as HELL. So complicated, in fact, that he doesn't cover every variation of it. Yes, there are different variations of the choreography depending on who is dancing (Robert, Lauren, etc).

It's okay, but okay is wonderful

Blame James, i binged all his videos so i know all the choreo aswell (What if we all met Up and danced to stsrkid together oml)

thats quite unusual, I always thought they were cool with reactions. Maybe you needed to split it intoparts like others have done? either way its a shame, but thankyou for the extra effort!!

No way! I thought they were chill..

other reactors have posted starkid's content without copyright, so that is peculiar, especially since all of their musicals are free on youtube anyway... maybe you should split the last one into different parts? some others i've seen usually split them into parts.

Starkid usually doesn't copyright claim? Is it a claim from that weird company that tries to claim things that aren't theirs? Because they aren't affiliated with them.

@@jahnabanana that is probably the case, but yes to other suggestions, maybe split it up into parts even if it is the whole musical

I think it’s kind of hard to hear, but the scarf actually sorts Harry as metrosexual, so that might explain the descriptions... 🤷🏻‍♀️

Let’s do this...THE UMBRIDGE WAY!!

@@whitenoisereacts A DUR DUR DUR DUR DUR DUR

Lol they have started down the path from which there is no return.

@@SimsinWonderland I agree. That's how I got into it and I have no regrets😂

@@pandoamessi4079 one of us! one of us!

The scarf of sexual preference was right, after all

Everything has an end is like my go to sad song

@@JessicaBiilor oh I cried so much at that song!!

@@JessicaBiilor If i Believed is mine haha

@@kiki8792 Also a brilliant song! And Dylan sings it with so much emotion!

"Sidekick" gets me every time 😭

We’ll stick around. We got a ton of cool stuff coming ;)

Tbh I binged a bunch of them off camera, but we’ll finish the Harry Potter ones and see

@@whitenoisereacts Your friend's initial reactions would still be worth it, though.

It is based on an actual fan theory.

I’m not sure we are gonna any more starkid stuff, that’s why I thought it’d be a good way to end

@@whitenoisereacts don't worry, the last one is definitely a great way to end, especially if you're not delving into any more Starkid on this channel. The only difference from the first two is that it was actually filmed at one of the big HP Conventions rather than at UMich & at this point Darren Criss (Harry) was on Glee so the production is more of a runthrough than the first two. You guys will still have a fun time with it though!

@@whitenoisereacts As I commented under the other one: I would love if you did more Starkid stuff but even if you don't, be sure to watch it on your own time. It's worth it!

Well thank you so much!!

Awww...she was my favorite part!!

Also… Evanna Lynch as Luna

They are too cute i explode every time I see them together

actually i'm pretty sure it was meant to come across as it getting stuck so they have to improv, but in the script it actually isn't supposed to come off because it's where peter pettigrew came from. they just wanted to make it look like an accident and like they were playing it off with those comments, but it was meant to stay there.

Yeah, I'm like... addicted to watching LotR reactions on youtube. So even though that's not what I came to this channel for, I'm definitely staying for that!

Um...yeah!!! LOTR is only like the best film series of all time!

@@whitenoisereacts Fun fact! One of Meredith Stepien's ex boyfriends was a HUGE Lord of The Rings fan! She's seen the movie many times :)

I've never noticed that before 🥺 my little wolfstar heart

I love the rogues medley from apocalyptour

More like she found the Lang Bros Deleted Script for AVPS and used it. And, no I'm not joking. Nick said that they practically wrote the plot for Cursed Child when trying to come up with AVPS, thought it sucked, and re-wrote it. He said it was too much like a fanfic. And this was YEARS before Cursed Child was even a thought, mind you.

That would imply that she wrote The Cursed Child to begin with...

@@ForeverDegenerate fuck sakkkkeee

@@pixie9114 Yep. Someone asked Nick about Cursed Child and his opinions regarding it during a livestream and he was like, "We wrote it first. And it sucked." I'm paraphrasing, of course.

I agree. The best songs are i AVPS and in Starship (my personal favorite). The only one I feel can truly compete is Holy Musical B@tman and maybe 2 songs in Twisted.