Bat Boy dirty??
Bat Boy dirty??
#0Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 12:56am
Hi, I'm sorry if this is completely wrong or if my mind is in the trash, but in the song "Inside your Heart" from BatBoy, does it have a sexual connotation? ie. the lyrics,
"Now you're scared; you're in need.
Clearly someone has to bleed.
I'll repay all you gave- I will give you what you crave.
Let me prove I love you; let me become part of you.
I see no better way to start!"
BWIDB Charlie
Broadway Star Joined: 5/6/04
#1re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 1:21am
Do you know Bat Boy at all? There are all sorts of innuendos throughout!
Charlie
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Up In Won
Leading Actor Joined: 9/15/04
#2re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 1:28amThat's probably the one song I don't take as 'dirty'. Hm.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
PennyLou
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/03
#3re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 1:33am
Yea I'm with Up In Won..
Shelly is actually telling him to suck blood out of her arm so he can live and be ok.. and everyone thinks him drinking there blood is killing people so she is saying she's not scared of hem.. she loves him..
Grace: My love for you is like this scar (points to elbow) ulgy but permanent!
#4re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:36amFor the London production, 'Inside your heart' has been replaced by a song called 'Mine All Mine', although they have re-used some of the formers lyrics. There is also the line "You'll spend your life on my arm" which makes it pretty clear that Shelly's talking about her providing Bat Boy with blood.
leeinlondon
Leading Actor Joined: 5/22/03
#5re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 7:39am
Even if it was about sex why does that make it "dirty" ?
Sex is lovely and nothing to be ashamed of..
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 8:05amBecause America is reverting to the Eisenhower era of prudishness and stupidity when it comes to sex.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
#7re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 8:14am
"Sex is lovely and nothing to be ashamed of.."
Try telling that to Bush.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#8re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 8:14amThe last thing I am is prude, dirty is just an adjective that would attract readers. And thanks, sorry I don't know the show that well; now it makes sense!
#9re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 10:16am
Everything has innuendo and sexual connotation if you read into it.
I've heard dirtier than Bat Boy. Try some Cole Porter.
#10re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 12:28pm
Maybe it's just me, but when I hear the line "Clearly someone has to bleed" I dont immediately think SEX.
Maybe Im just not having sex with the right people lol
Yes that's me. No, it's not a Rent homage.
#11re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 12:35pm
When reading this thread title, I can't get the voice of Karen from W&G out of my head saying, "Are you a dirty bat boy? Yeah...you're a dirty little bat boy. Squeak for me, bat boy. That's right! Louder!"
Did this happen to anyone else?
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Jwaa
Broadway Star Joined: 11/28/04
#12re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:01pm
God when i went to see Bat Boy in Westend after being a big fan of the Off-Broadway CD, you should of seen the look on my face when the jolly cute 'Children Children' song came on......
"are those animals?.....yeah they are!.....are they?...o dear god!"
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Updated On: 11/30/04 at 05:01 PM
#13re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:31pmI see on footlight.com that the orginal london cast recording has just been released. is it worth getting?
"What the hell happened to you? You look like a Make-A-Wish Kid. You know, I just knew you were gonna bring shame on this new family of ours, and it just figures you had to go make yourself over into some heroin-shootin skate board chic on the only day E! could interview you!" - Cherry Cherry, on her daughter Mary Cherry
BobbyAL
Swing Joined: 11/2/04
#14re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:02pm
I got the CD off of dress circle, a store in London where the Bat Boy website said it was being released, and it cost me thirty-something. Anyway, the CD's longer and includes a lot of the dialogue in the songs (i.e. all the dialogue between the lyrics in "Hold Me Bat Boy") but, in my opinion, the rap is ruined b/c a lot of the lyrics were changed around. However, I do like "Mine All Mine" but not as much as "Inside Your Heart"
Then again, I am very partial to Kerry Butler. Also, Devon May being on the recording is great!
If anybody wants, I'm willing to send "Mine All Mine" just so you can hear it. After a while of listening to it, it has grown on me!
Coll
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#15re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:08pmI have both recordings of the show and I WAY prefer the OLC. Mine All Mine is electric (although its effect is somewhat subdued if you haven't seen it on stage). I'd get both, but if you can only get one, get the OLC. Kerry Butler is great!
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
nodaybuttoday4
Chorus Member Joined: 12/27/04
#16re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 12/28/04 at 6:33pmSomeone has never heard or seen the song "Children, Children" where people come out in animal suits and hump each other. You just have to love the musical for what it is worth. There are plenty of sexual connotations, but you just have to accept them. It's what makes the show funny!
#17re: Bat Boy dirty??
Posted: 12/28/04 at 7:19pmThere is some kinky **** going down in your sex life Barnaby...
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
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