Bat Boy: The Musical
by Laurence O'keefe, Brian Flemming, Keythe Farley

Off-Broadway
Bat Boy: The Musical Book Cover
Bat Boy: The Musical Cover

Highlights

120 mins Present Day Expandable Casting Flexible Cast Size Room for Extras Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Awards & Recognition

Lucille Lortel Award Outer Critics Circle

Winner! 2001 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical Winner! Two Richard Rodgers Awards Winner! 2001 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical

Synopsis

Based on a ridiculous tabloid story, Bat Boy: The Musical is a comedy/horror show about a half-boy/half-bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia.

For lack of a better solution, the local sheriff brings Bat Boy to the home of the town veterinarian, Dr. Parker, where he is eventually accepted as a member of the family and taught to act like a “normal” boy by the veterinarian’s wife, Meredith, and teenage daughter, Shelley.

Bat Boy is happy with his new life, but when he naively tries to fit in with the narrow-minded people of Hope Falls, they turn on him, prodded by the machinations of Dr. Parker, who secretly despises Bat Boy.

Shelley and Bat Boy, who have fallen in love, run away together from the ignorant townfolk and have a blissful coupling in the woods, but their happiness is shattered when Meredith arrives and reveals a shocking secret.

Soon the entire town arrives to hear the horrifying story of Bat Boy’s unholy origin.

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Press Reviews

"Smart, playful and funny… a giggling cult hit."

— The New Yorker

"Outrageously silly and totally charming."

— The Daily News

"At the end of the show, you’ve been gleefully, outlandishly entertained."

— Newsday

"Bat Boy: The Musical is a winner. You’d be batty to miss it."

— The Star Ledger

"Big laughs… it’s remarkable what intelligent wit can accomplish… a jaggedly imaginative mix of skewering humor and energetic glee."

— The New York Times

Characters

Character
BAT BOY
MEREDITH PARKER

Wife

DR. THOMAS PARKER

Husband

SHELLEY PARKER

Their daughter

SHERIFF REYNOLDS
RICK

,

RON

and

RUTHIE TAYLOR

Three teenage spelunkers

MRS. TAYLOR

Their mother

LORRAINE

A rancher’s wife

MAGGIE

Senior representative, Hope Falls Town Council

DAISY

A schoolteacher

MR. DILLON

A rancher

BUD

A rancher

NED

A rancher

ROY

A townsman

CLEM

A townsman

REVEREND BILLY HIGHTOWER
PAN
VARIOUS ANIMALS
YOUNG MEREDITH
MEREDITH’S FATHER
MEREDITH’S MOTHER
A DOCTOR
INSTITUTE MAN
+ 1 more characters

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Bat Boy – NY City Center Highlights

Publication

ISBN-13 9780822218340
ISBN-10 0822218348

Bat Boy: The Musical is a play written by Laurence O'keefe and published by Concord Theatricals .

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