STAGE TUBE: Watch Team Starkid's Latest Musical, ANI: A PARODY
Team StarKid, the musical theater troupe and YouTube phenomenon, debuted their newest musical, ANI: A Parody this summer, and now the performance is available to watch online. Check out the full musical below!
Written by Nick and Matt Lang with music by TalkFine, and directed by Matt Lang, the Star Wars parody is set in the time between the original Star Wars movies and the three prequels.
Ani Skywalker is in the dumps. His wife is dead. He's stuck in a bogus government he hates. He spends most of his time staring out into space, thinking about the good old days. But things are about to change for Ani as he sets off for adventure in the galaxy's biggest come-back...
Formed at the University of Michigan in 2009, StarKid represents an ensemble of writers, directors, actors and designers. Now based in Chicago, StarKid has garnered over 150 million views and 329,000 subscribers on YouTube, 200,000 Facebook fans, and over 132,000 Twitter followers worldwide. The team has had its albums chart on iTunes and Billboard, and captured the attention of national media such as The Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly,Vanity Fair, Billboard, "Access Hollywood," "Entertainment Tonight," NPR, VH1, and MTV.
StarKid first invaded the internet in July 2009 with A Very Potter Musical-a fan-made parody that premiered on YouTube and immediately went viral. Filmed during a live performance through University of Michigan's Basement Arts, the show was an instant hit with fans of the Harry Potter franchise and quickly garnered nearly two million views. The group then followed with Me and My Dick (2009), A Very Potter Sequel (2010), Starship (2011), Holy Musical B@man (2012), Second City's Airport For Birds (2013), and two national concert tours: The SPACE Tour (2011) and APOCALYPTOUR (2012).
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