Fellow StarKid Joe Walker likened the experience to being a DJ, and the collective nature of their performances were often the crowd drowns out the StarKids on stage. Without those singing fans, Team StarKid might have never fully existed.
Ever since "A Very Potter Musical," originally performed at the University of Michigan and put online in what was supposed to be an easy way to share the production with friends, exploded into a worldwide phenomenon, things haven't slowed down for StarKid.
Since then they formed their production company, their videos have accumulated more than million views on YouTube, and two of their five albums have charted on Billboard, including the first-ever appearance of a student-produced college musical on the Billboard Top Cast Albums.
Previously they've performed small, one-off reviews at Harry Potter fan events or standing shows in their home-base of Chicago, but the S. Tour was their first national run, and a chance to connect with their numerous fans offline, performing 21 times in 16 cites in November.
We're basically a band with four or five albums that never toured. And the purpose of tours is to promote and to reach out and spread the fanbase, which I think we have. This was the first tour and it's been a success.
Before Team StarKid took the stage in New York for the second time ever, fellow Michigan alumnus Charlene Kaye opened, playing mostly selections from her forthcoming Kickstarter-funded new album, but also left room for fan favorites like "Dress and Tie," a duet that features Criss.
His appearance on stage, the first glimpse of him for the night and only fourth show of the tour he'd been able to make due to "Glee" commitments, drew the first truly ear-shattering screams and crowd surge. Kaye and Criss spent a lot of time building grassroots fanbases touring together before Criss' put his solo career on the back-burner for television, and that musical synchronicity shows in their ease together. Even without Criss on stage the crowd clapped and sang along for Kaye, especially on the earworming title tracks from the in-production "Animal Love.
The setlist for these final shows included a few adjustments thanks to the arrival of Criss, who slotted in seamlessly with the group, who often joked about his arrival changing things or playfully suggesting they go on with the original plan and completely ignore his presence.
Criss, of course, wouldn't be ignored. Nor would the crowd let him be, surging forward en mass at this first arrival on stage, and screaming out their love for him on his few solo numbers, most notably "Home," a Potter song he dedicates to his mother in the audience.
Criss wasn't the only StarKid to shine, or to attract screaming fans. Each performer had their share, with Richter and Lauren Lopez performing the fan-favorite duet "Granger Danger," and while many of Dylan Saunders' solos were reappropriated by Criss for that evening's show, his duet with Joe Walker stood out for both as solid numbers. Those duets in particular, and their surrounding banter, received an interestingly queer reading thanks to the lack of costuming on tour Walker and Lopez both play opposite of their gender in the Potter StarKid productions.
Jamie Lyn Beatty was the most rubber-faced of the girls, her expressiveness shining on tunes like "No Way. Meredith Stepien riled the crowd up with some stand-up and discussion of Criss' newfound fame status he doesn't travel by limo, he's still riding via dragon like always, she joked before singing "Coolest Girl," a song sung by Hermione Granger in the plays, and something of an anthem for the predominantly female fanbase.
All-in-all, the troupe barreled through 21 of their numbers, most of which were performed in a group setting complete with dance moves, jazz hands and charm, the latter of which is their greatest weapon. The only group-favorite tracks StarKid left off their setlist were some from "Me and My Dick," the most adult-oriented of their musicals -- since the shows were all-ages, they opted to keep things as PG as StarKid gets.
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There are some mistakes here and there. Not at all! The songs came first. I was trying to write the perfect pop song. But [for the first show,] my hat goes off to A. Holmes for writing a lot of the new songs. All this sure-headedness that I thought I had is being totally messed up, and I hate it. Did the songs in this one work the same as the original show?
Were most of them pre-written? I wrote every song for that musical, and all except two were not previously written. So, I changed the words a little bit for that, and I changed it to be a little slower, and actually, to this day, after seeing it, I love the way it ended up. Other than that, every song in that show was a new song, and I got them all out in like a month.
They always change. I did not see that coming! Yeah, well I wanted to write a big ballad.
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