# BAT BOY: The Musical (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652 "2005-04-16T18:26:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/1 "2005-04-16T18:26:43Z")
Anyone seen this? A local theatre group has mounted a production and some friends and I went last night. The titular Bat Boy is based on the Weekly World News [headliner](http://www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/images/00000157.gif). I’d heard the first song from the (I think) London cast recording and knew I had to see it. Pretty darned entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/2 "2005-04-16T18:29:15Z")
I think “pretty darned entertaining” sums it up. I just let go of the critical part of my brain and had a lot of fun. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/3 "2005-04-16T22:48:56Z")
[Hold Me, Bat Boy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=192430&highlight=hold) ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/4 "2005-04-16T23:46:33Z")
I saw a production here in DC a few years ago. I love the music, particularly the opening number, “Hold Me, Bat Boy” and “Joyful Noise.” ---
**Author:** ![Izzybella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e56c9b/32.png) [@Izzybella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Izzybella)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/5 "2005-04-17T02:07:22Z")
Saw a production at Theatre Three in Dallas. I thought it was very entertaining. The older couple in front of us hated it. I’m not sure what they expected but they were incredibly vocal about how good a time they **weren’t** having. They left at intermission, which, considering the second half of the musical, was probably for the best. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/6 "2005-04-17T03:45:52Z")
Portland Center Stage put it on two or three years ago. It was a good, lively, trashy, ridiculous show. And the music’s fun. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/7 "2005-04-17T11:09:51Z")
I saw it at the Shaftsbury in London. It’s a good, fun musical. The first half maintains some veneer of seriousness, raising themes about tolerance – but in the second half, that’s all forgotten as the musical descends into pure comedy. The scene where Batboy and his paramour escape into the woods and are serenanded by the forest king is particularly funny. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/8 "2005-04-17T14:17:21Z")
Hey **Otto** , I went the same night. My friend didn’t want to go when I was in London, so I got lucky and it’s showing here and my friends here have a lower class of humour. I thought it was pretty good. I couldn’t catch some of the lyrics, some of the music drowned it out. The scene with BatBoy and the girl in the forest was hilarious. Here they had the cast holding and dancing wtih animals from a taxidermy, and the racoon had a box of crackerjack in it’s hands. I wanna get the soundtrack now. Love your BatBoy. ---
**Author:** ![Taran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Taran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taran)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/9 "2005-04-17T15:12:45Z")
Another fan here. Balls-to-the-wall silliness from start to stop. I felt a bit let down by the story of Batboy’s origins, though; I think he works better if his creation is a bit mysterious. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/10 "2005-04-17T19:40:10Z")
I’ve also seen it. It was a long time ago though so I don’t remember any of the songs. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/11 "2005-04-17T21:01:30Z")
Seen it twice, and I loved it. I was surprised how good the music was, too. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/12 "2005-04-17T21:13:08Z")
Agree that the first song, “Hold Me Bat Boy,” is the best. It’s what inspired me to go. Apparently I’d seen Bat Boy perform in _Clue: The Musical_ but didn’t recognize him through the make up. > [@The Big Cheese](#): > > Hey Otto, I went the same night. Wow, to think I was in the presence of a fellow Dopeisonian and didn’t even realize. Should’ve started the thread before I went. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-boy-the-musical-spoilers/299652/13 "2005-04-18T05:35:43Z")
I music directed a production of Bat Boy a year ago. It immediately became one of my all-time favorite shows. Great music (Three Bedroom House and Comfort and Joy are probably my favorites), a funny and bizarre cast of characters, and a story that is typical in many ways while being truly weird in others.