Team Starkid: Boom or Bust?

From left to right: Joey Richter as Ronald Weasley, Darren Criss as Harry Potter and Bonnie Gruesen as Hermione Granger in A Very Potter Musical (photo by Kelly Meehan Brown on Centsai)

If you were a big Harry Potter fan back in 2009, chances are you would have heard about or even stumbled upon Team Starkid’s online debut. What started as a convenient way for performers to access recordings of “A Very Potter Musical” unexpectedly turned into a sensation with a whopping 10 million views today.

Some may even know Team Starkid through this iconic vine, a snippet from one of their older musicals…