What was Batboy the musial about?

[ilovespamalot]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 7:49am

Tonight i am seeing a local production of Batboy the musical. Does anyone know what this musical is about? And is it good? Because i have no idea.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 8:15am

It's based on a series of articles in the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS - the ultra-sleazy supermarket tabloid that always has ridiculous headlines like "Face of Satan seen in clouds over Iraq" and "Space Ailen meets President Bush". The character of "Batboy" - a strange teenager with long pointy ears and big bug eyes, fist appeared in the Weekly World News about 15 years ago, and has been on the cover dozens of times. When last heard from, Batboy was in a Chicago hospital after being hit by a car.

By the way - buried somewhere inside every issue of the Weekly World News is a disclaimer that says everything in it is totally fictional.

[musicnmath]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 10:48am

where are you seeing it? I just saw the local production in Cambridge...

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 11:16am

Ugh! The Bat Boy website isn't working! I think there is a production NJ coming up really soon, and i can't find out anything about it!

[Jilani]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 12:11pm

Up in Lost, you can check out the websites from the London and Toronto productions here:

www.batboy.co.uk

www.batboy.ca

musicnmath, was that the Harvard production you just saw? I saw it on Saturday night. What did you think? I love the show (I saw the professional Boston production at the BCA twice a few years back), and thought overall it was pretty good for a college production, but I thought Dr. Parker was disappointingly weak.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 12:31pm

Baseball

[lildogs]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 12:39pm

it's a great fun show and it really opened the doors for many of the loopy, campy, fun shows on Bway now

[ilovespamalot]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 5:27pm

I am seeing it in New Orleans