Correction Appended: "A Very Potter Sequel" will show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7 p.m.

Even as its members chat while lounging on apartment couches, the creative chemistry of Team StarKid pops. The group of past and present University students who run this theatrical production company fused together during their early moments in college, and their long shared history shows. As the StarKids discuss their highly anticipated “A Very Potter Sequel,” the jokes never cease to spark.

The idea for the original “A Very Potter Musical” ("AVPM") arose after years of the same sort of joking about the Harry Potter book series, but friends of brothers and writers Nick and Matt Lang never thought the parody musical would materialize.

After Matt Lang, a 2009 LSA graduate, spontaneously put up a poster for auditions last year, Basement Arts picked up the show, and the play was born.

Even though fans flooded Studio One to see the original Potter show, when the team uploaded the video to YouTube months later it was still shocked by the rapid fervid response.

“Without us even noticing, thousands and thousands of people started to watch this thing,” said Nick Lang, a 2008 graduate from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Act One, Part One of the original musical now has over 1.5 million YouTube hits, capturing fans from across the globe. The team was amazed because it didn’t intend for such a wide audience.

“So many of the things that are funny in the play are because they’re inside jokes,” said Bonnie Gruesen (Hermione), a 2010 School of Music, Theatre & Dance graduate and the producer of "AVPM." “There is so much to enjoy about the musical, obviously … but it was funny to be like, ‘Wow, these people are in on our inside jokes now.’ ”

In retrospect, the group members agrees the musical has drawn so much attention because it’s fresh and one-of-a-kind. It has a fully original script, score and take on Harry Potter characters. The musical follows Harry and his wizard friends’ journey through Hogwarts while twisting the novel's plot points for comedic effect.

The popularity of the musical quickly led Infinitus, a four-day Harry Potter fan and scholar conference to be held in Orlando this July, to invite the group to perform. The team decided the best thing to bring to Orlando would be a full-length sequel filmed at the University’s own Studio One. After embarking on another four-hour play, Team StarKid began to feel the pressure.

“Whenever you do something like this that is a cult hit, the tiniest cult hit that it is, you have to live up to not only what it actually was, but what people think that it is,” Nick said. “You remember it better than it was.”

The brothers adopted tactics so they would not fall into the conventional potholes that plague sequels. The jokes had to be completely different, and the story needed larger stakes and twistier turns.

“You have to come up with something that (the viewers) are not going to expect and that immediately throws off their guard so they’ll go, ‘All right, I don’t know where its going so let’s watch where it goes,’ ” Nick said.

But the team wanted to live up to the fans’ expectations while providing a whole new story to celebrate the books.

“We don’t want to let down those 20,000 people,” Nick said in reference to the core fan base. “And the thing is that those 20,000 people have been extremely nice to us, but they could be very mean.”

The Lang brothers, as well as fellow writer of both Potter musicals Brian Holden (a 2008 School of Music, Theatre & Dance graduate), are thoroughly satisfied with the final script. Without giving the plot away, they said the sequel adds new characters and draws heavily from the first, third and fifth books.