Would A Very Potter Musical work today? We asked Darren Criss
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If you were an internet kid circa 2009, you are probably familiar with A Very Potter Musical. The student-made musical parody, which came out at the height of Pottermania, became an early viral hit and rocketed star Darren Criss to fame.So when Popverse video producer Veronica Valencia (and musical theater nerd) got to chat with Criss at C2E2 '24, she asked if the same magic (heh) could be captured again."It's hard," said the Glee and StarKid leading man, "because the paradigm like of being mainstream or having any sort of accessibility moves so much faster than the rate of content creation, that it's kind of hard to say what would happen. Anything that's a 'lightning in a bottom moment,' if you can use that as comparative image, the lightning happens so fast that the bottle has to be in a specific place that if it was moved a centimeter to the right, it wouldn't have gone in the bottle." Read more