he'll kick your head

It is genuinely such an impressive theatre production when you consider that this was the first show Starkid put on independently of the resources they had at The University of Michigan. It was funded entirely out of their own money with no kickstarter campaign and had so many technical intricacies with the puppets. Not to mention that Joey was still finishing his degree while playing the lead and had to keep travelling between Michigan and Chicago in order to do the show. And Darren had just been signed on to Glee and was unable to write the amount of songs he had planned to.

Starship was the show which solidified Starkid as a professional theatre company. It was a major turning point and set the bar for all of their future work.

A rough sketch of these guys (based on that one instagram post from Will).

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