Bat
Boy: The Musical
210
Shaftesbury Avenue
London
WC2H 8DP
The latest cult off-Broadway hit makes it's way across the Atlantic to the
West End.
Melding the macabre
and the kitsch in the way that all good musicals should, Bat Boy tells the story
of a half boy/half bat discovered in the caves of West Virginia. Captured, caged,
mockingly branded Bat Boy and threatened with execution by the vet Dr Parker,
things aren’t exactly looking great for our echo-locating laddie until he
finds unlikely salvation with Meredith Parker, the Vet’s wife. Re-christened
Edgar, Bat Boy blossoms under Meredith’s tutelage and becomes the paragon
of a modern gentleman – courteous, educated, sensitive and irresistible to
the opposite sex. If anything, the fact that he is part rodent and has vestigial
wings is even more of a turn-on for the ladies. This is musical-land, however,
and just when things are going great, the local cattle start dying in mysterious
circumstances and the chap with the furry ears becomes everyone's prime suspect.
Theatre:
Shaftesbury Theatre
Cost: ?20.00
- ?40.00
Performance Times (Mon - Friday):
7:45pm
Performance Times (Saturday): 3pm &
7:45pm
Performance Times (Sunday): N/A
Matinee: Thursday 3pm
Nearest Tube: Leicester
Square/Covent Garden 
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