A Very Potter Musical Analysis

“A Very Potter Musical” was written and performed in 2009 by StarKid Productions in the University of Michigan campus. At first glance the musical seems like it would be rather interesting purely because it is every Harry Potter dorks dream come true. However, upon further look into the musical people begin to realize that the music isn’t really that great. For a person who does not have a musical background the play is rather enjoyable but when one turns a musical ear to it they want to run the other way. “A Very Potter Musical” presents us with Harry Potter’s second year but contains all of the final scenes from books four, five, six, and seven. Although this helps add lots of action to the story it makes all Harry Potter fans recoil with the sheer amount of inconsistencies because Harry did not live in the cupboard under the stairs in The Chamber of Secrets just for starters. From the announcement of the house cup (“how can it be a tri-wizard tournament if there are four teams”) to the rise of Lord Voldemort and Quirrel (“when I rule the world I’ll plant flowers”) to his fall at the end of the play the musical was full …show more content…
The music also wasn’t as great as it could have been seeing that it was overly simplified when the audience would have enjoyed having a deeper level to some of the pieces. Furthermore, the lack of dynamic contrast made it feel like like the singers were screaming at you the whole time rather than adding musical talent into the play. The acting was rather impressive as you had one person playing many different roles and approaching the characters differently so that there was some variation to their inntonations. By far, Draco Malfoy was the best character because of the sheer amount of energy that he gave to the musical and “if this homemade dark mark isn’t enough to convince” then we will have to agree to