Bat Boy: The Musical

BAT BOY: The Musical Story & Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe Directed by Danny Dunderman This smart, hilarious, and tuneful off-Broadway hit is an uproarious, high-energy parable about prejudice, community, love… and blood-sucking bats. 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