Team StarKid have rather subtly posted the YouTube release date of their long awaited “Very Potter Threequel,” A Very Potter Senior Year. While there has been no announcement message or video from the group, the banner on their official YouTube channel was updated today to advertise the release of the show on March 15.

This release date comes soon after a Twitter hint from Team StarKid writer, actor and co-founder Joe Walker, posted late last night.

Eager fans have kept their eyes peeled, expecting news on the A Very Potter Senior Year release date, and sure enough, the information was subtly provided today, albeit in a rather low-key fashion. We’re still keeping a look-out for a classic StarKid announcement video, but perhaps the group felt that for this – arguably the most long-awaited and vehemently desired in the group’s career – simplicity was all that was needed.

A Very Potter Senior Year is the third and final show in StarKid’s Potter parody series, the first of which, A Very Potter Musical, shot the group to viral fame in the summer of 2009. A second Very Potter show was produced around a year later, and the group was never secretive about the fact that they had also written a third part to round off the series. It became questionable whether the “threequel” would ever see the light of day, for a variety of reasons including Team StarKid’s development from university-funded student extracurricular group to a living, breathing, money-making company, the move to creating more original material, and of course, the difficulty of amassing the same central cast, particularly their Harry, Darren Criss, who scored a guest-starring role on Glee a few months after A Very Potter Sequel came out, and who has since gone on to become one of the show’s leading characters.

However, in August 2012, Team StarKid managed to pull off a huge feat by bringing nearly every person who’s ever been part of a StarKid production to the LeakyCon Harry Potter convention in Chicago, where, after only a few days rehearsal, they performed a one-off “staged reading” of A Very Potter Senior Year. This was filmed, and promised as a YouTube release. The final live product was five hours long after only 36 hours rehearsal with the full cast. It was completely uncut, full of goofs, and had never been run in order before. It contained songs, staging, choreography, and over 70 costumes worn by the 30+ members involved.

Late last year, the StarKid crew released a video expressing their concerns and plans about releasing Senior Year to the wider public, and ultimately decided to release the show’s script and songs first; and for Senior Year to make sense, for the goofs to be funny, for the footage of the reading to be worth watching, the fandom should be familiar with what the show should have been. On December 15, the script and soundtrack were made available, and this Friday, it seems that members of the StarKid fandom who were not among the audience in Chicago will finally be able to experience A Very Potter Senior Year and say goodbye to this particular version of Hogwarts. We were at the live performance, and it was definitely an emotional experience for the audience and cast alike. You can read Hypable’s review of the show here.

How excited are you to finally see A Very Potter Senior Year? Have you been blasting the soundtrack and poring over the script since December? And are you quite ready to go back to Hogwarts for the very last time?