BAT BOY: The Musical at NYCC Encores!

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I wonder if this will reflect any of the London revisions--I hope not, I want to hear "Inside Your Heart"! I love this show but it will be interesting to see if the comedy in this holds up better than (or is revived more successfully than) URINETOWN. I thought of it as the one successful LITTLE SHOP imitator or heir, and that's mostly held up beautifully. 

Oh that makes me so very sad. 

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "this is another Encores show that is hoping to transfer based on buzz, but sales are sloooooow"

Yea the sales look awful. And the marketing is good and robust. I think it’s the first time in years that an Encores show has put the Access Club seats in the Mezz. Ambitious to think they could fill 14 performances.

Unless there’s some surprise big-big star lined up for the titular role, I can’t see any road to success for it on Broadway, despite having ATG money behind it. Off-Broadway doesn’t seem like the right fit, due to the cast size and expanded orchestra.

Updated On: 10/28/25 at 04:30 PM

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "BoringBoredBoard40 said: "this is another Encores show that is hoping to transfer based on buzz, but sales are sloooooow"

Yea the sales look awful. And the marketing is good and robust. I think it’s the first time in years thatan Encores showhas put the Access Club seats in the Mezz. Ambitious to think they could fill 14 performances.

Unless there’s some surprise big-big star lined up for the titular role, I can’t see any road to success for it on Broadway, despite having ATG money behind it. Off-Broadway doesn’t seem like the right fit, due to the cast size and expanded orchestra."

 

This isn't an Encores show -- this is their annual Gala/fundraiser -- like GYPSY, LITTLE SHOP, SUNDAY IN THE PARK, RAGTIME, etc.  No idea why they chose it for that prestigious slot?

I feel like this show should go the way Death Becomes Her did with marketing- TikTok. Come off like the fun hilarious show you gotta see.

My only qualm with this show is sometimes you feel stuck in the living room a lot in Act One.

Great Act Two.

I frequently had fun tonight and especially loved seeing Kerry Butler in the mother role but thought many of the revisions were very strange, especially involving the townspeople. Enough fun to go back to later if I can manage it! The principal cast was pretty much all fantastic. The sound mix was really rough, it got better over the course of the night but the band (not onstage) sounded muffled and I couldn't make out any of the lyrics to the opening number, which seemed to be different. But first show, hopefully that will improve. Not all of it ages gracefully, not all the new stuff makes sense, but I think it's a lot more successful than their URINETOWN. 

Inside Your Heart is great and that new song sounds like a second rate Heathers track. Haven’t loved what I’ve heard of the rewrites so far…

It was very enjoyable.  All the leads were great.  Sound was terrible, i figured it was because I was in the “gods” section but alas, I got earphone for the second act and it didn’t really help.  Maybe they’ll work on that as shows progress?  

Taylor was wonderful as Edgar.  Staging was great although they didn’t really utilize the upper tops of the set it would’ve seem that with all that space they would have put more action up there, seemed kinda of a waste to build that and not use it.

Highly suggest getting the earphone even though it might sound muffled. 

I will not miss “Inside Your Heart”

It’s sing songy. 

I did not miss "Dance With Me, Darling" and thought it was one point where the revision might have been a little bit stronger. (It was tbh always my skip track.) But yes, Act 1 is definitely more changed and whatever they were attempting to do with the townspeople just did not communicate last night. Maybe the lyrics I couldn't make out made a big difference, maybe there's a feeling about the limited usefulness of portraying people as flatly ignorant hicks in the Trump era, but I really don't know what they were going for. The new very intense, sort of ritualistic song sung around the full-sized cow puppet (oh, god, that puppet!) was at least a huge swing, which I'll give them credit for when revisals can mostly feel like a watering down. 

Scarywarhol said: "Also Alex Newell and her number got the biggest reaction from the audience (especially those seated up in the gods)."

*feigns surprise*