History Trivia / AVeryPotterMusical

* OldShame: Cho's verse in "Going Back to Hogwarts" has become this for Darren Criss. In later performances, he either omits the verse entirely (skipping right to Cedric's line) or spends time explaining the context of the line and essentially apologising.

** A similar staging ended up becoming the opening of Starkid's later show, Theatre/HolyMusicalBatman!

** A similar staging ended up becoming the opening of Starkid's later show, Theatre/HolyMusicalB@tman!

** One specific example is how there was clearly very limited time for choreography, but Creator/JoeWalker's performance and Creator/DarrenCriss' music really fool people into thinking "To Dance Again" is a fully choreographed number. (Even though, as Joe points out, he's really just walking back and forth across the stage.)
* TroubledProduction: As noted under SerendipityWritesThePlot, no one took this show terribly seriously at first, seeing it mostly as a lark to entertain their friends. The total rehearsal process lasted three weeks, during which the show was ''still being written''. The songs were either songs Creator/DarrenCriss had already written ("Sami/Harry", "Not Alone") and repurposed, or were written in a matter of hours and then presented to the cast on the day they were written. The song "Voldemort Is Going Down" was added ''the day before opening'', during the dress rehearsal, as a last minute change because the Langs decided having the battle against Voldemort be a total AntiClimax wasn't funny enough. The thought that this show would become a worldwide beloved hit or that these songs would be performed over and over again on tour was the furthest thing from anyone's minds. (Indeed, the lyrics of many of the songs weren't fixed until the cast album made after the show went up on Website/YouTube.)

-->'''Hemione:''' Well, I may look different, but you guys should just treat me like I'm the same old Hermione you know and love. ''[To audience]'' And that goes for all you too. ''[She winks at audience]''

* CastingGag: The casting had some gag moments for people in the [=UMich=] theatre department, notably that Creator/LaurenLopez had previously played a "little British boy" in the Langs' oarody of Film/TheLordOfTheRings. There's also the fact that Nick Lang met Jaime Lyn Beatty because Creator/DarrenCriss had done a dramatic one-man show with Jaime playing TheLostLenore who only appeared in the form of photos of their past relationship, which made casting Jaime as Darren's love interest (Ginny) but having her be TheWoobie and him be InnocentlyInsensitive this time HilariousInHindsight.

** Apparently the Langs actually expected Tyler not to show up for the last show and were surprised when he did -- and had no recourse in mind for it he didn't other than awkwardly skipping past his lines and telling the audience to imagine he was there.

* ThrowItIn: Actually ''subverted'', perhaps an unprecedented feat with this trope. Ron's failure to take the Taylor Lautner poster down and the resultant {{Corpsing}} and ad-libs about there being a Lautner poster in every room, even the stagehands (not visible in the filmed version) who also fail to take the poster down between the two scenes - it was all completely staged, as evidenced by [[spoiler:the poster turning out to be Peter Pettigrew.]]
** [[spoiler:Given that the map pointed to Ron, it can be imagined that he was meant to be holding the poster when Pettigrew arrived and the blunder was, in fact, a blunder.]]

** Hermione's "transformation" being a result of using the Reparo charm on her face when Neville broke her nose.

* DeletedScene: The original stage production began with Bonnie Gruesen narrating a prologue where we silently see Voldemort murdering Harry Potter's parents. This was cut for time in the YouTube version under the justified assumption [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready all the viewers would already know the backstory]].

* DawsonCasting: Played for laughs. All the actors are university. Harry says he's 12.

* WriterRevolt: It seems the writers/creators have mixed thoughts about their decision to censor and edit ''A Very Potter Musical'' to something worthy of a PG-13 once it caught on with younger audiences online. Though censored F-bombs and edits appear in the sequel too, Lupin and other new characters seem to been written specifically with [[ClusterFBomb Cluster S Bombs]] and similar frequent (but PG-13-appropriate!) profanity sewn into their personalities, and in a sly nod to the original censorship, the kid characters (now only eleven!) cover their ears anytime Lupin swears.

** A scene where young Tom Riddle says goodbye to [[OneSceneWonder Damien, the orphan Anti-Christ]] at their orphanage. It heavily implies that they [[ExperimentedInCollege 'experimented']], with each other.

** They also cut out all of the lines were the Riddles accused [[spoiler: Tom of [[HeteronormativeCrusader being gay.]]]] It could be because the lines actually weren't played for laughs and actually made the scene more depressing.

** Right after [[spoiler: Hermione accepts Ron's proposal]], [[spoiler:Dumbledore and Rumbleroar]] made a cameo. There's no explanation as to why it was removed (if it was even in the live show).

* ActorAllusion
** Darren Criss refers to his actual hobby of covering Creator/{{Disney}} songs.
---> '''Harry:''' ...I make weird covers of Disney songs, [[SelfDeprecation who does that?]]
** Harry also gets sorted as [[CampStraight Metrosexual]] which is quite amusing considering how CampStraight Darren Criss actually is.
** Both in ''A Very Potter Sequel'' and ''Theatre/MeAndMyDick'', Nicholas Joseph Strauss-Mathathia's character leaves in the end of the play, and even uses the exact same piece of dialogue: "I could travel the world. I've always wanted to see Venice."
** Actress Brittany Coleman plays Dean Thomas, who sounds just like Gary Coleman.

* ActorAllusion: "Wizard of the Year" contains several lyrics mocking Harry that seem more based on mocking [[Creator/DarrenCriss his actor's]] role on ''Series/{{Glee}}'', specifically the loss of his "beautiful fro", his Warbler outfit, [[TakeThat his use of lip sync, and the lack of a real story for his character]]. There's also a "loser like me" line, a reference to one of Glee's original songs.

* SleeperHit: Even before the viral YouTube success, this show that was intended as a lark among college friends was a surprising word of mouth success. Team Starkid describes how right after their opening on Thursday night, they started playing to a packed house every show, with people driving to the University of Michigan from as far away as Chicago for tickets. They ended up having to extend the show to Sunday to accommodate everyone, at great inconvenience to several cast members (see TroubledProduction). And ''then'', after they chalked all this up as a wild once-in-a-lifetime he experience, they decided to put the recording on YouTube...

** Ron's habit of constant snacking was born of Joey Richter's own habit of doing so during rehearsal. In the performance recorded for YouTube, Ron's onscreen eating is [[EnforcedMethodActing Joey's actual dinner]] -- he didn't get to eat all day before the show so he bought Chinese food on the way and made wolfing it down while trying to get Ron's lines out part of his character.

* TroubledProduction: As noted under SerendipityWritesThePlot, no one took this show terribly seriously at first, seeing it mostly as a lark to entertain their friends. The total rehearsal process lasted three weeks, during which the show was ''still being written''. The songs were either songs Creator/DarrenCriss had already written ("Sami/Harry", "Not Alone") and repurposed, or were written in a matter of hours and then presented to the cast on the day they were written. The song "Voldemort Is Going Down" was added ''the day before opening'', during the dress rehearsal, as a last minute change because the Langs decided having the battle against Voldemort be a total AntiClimax wasn't funny enough. The thought that this show would become a worldwide beloved hit or that these songs would be performed over and over again on tour was the furthest thing from anyone's minds. (Indeed, the lyrics of many of the songs weren't fixed until the cast album made after the show went up on YouTube.)

** Luna Lovegood is also recast... but in a true CrowningMomentOfAwesome, she's recast with ''Creator/EvannaLynch''.

** Ron's habit of constant snacking was born of Joey Richter's own habit of doing so during rehearsal.

* SleeperHit: Even before the viral YouTube success, this show that was intended as a lark among college friends was a surprising word of mouth success. Team Starkid describes how right after their opening on Thursday night, they started playing to a packed house every show, with people driving to the University of Michigan from as far away as Chicago for tickets. They ended up having to extend the show to Sunday to accommodate everyone, at great inconvenience to several cast members (see TroubledProduction). And ''then'', after they chalked all this up as a wild once-in-a-lifetime he experience, they decided to put the recording on YouTube...

** Not only were there three weeks between casting and opening night, but thanks to poor planning on the Langs' part, almost all of the cast was committed to another play during the first week of rehearsals. Most of the cast only got ''two'' weeks of rehearsal, with the exception of Joe Walker and Brian Rosenthal -- which helps explain why Voldemort and Quirrell are the two most developed characters.