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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