Bat Boy: The Musical | |
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Music | Laurence O'Keefe |
Lyrics | Laurence O'Keefe |
Book | Keythe Farley Brian Flemming |
Basis | Weekly World News's Bat Boy |
Productions | 1997 World Premiere (Los Angeles) 2001 Off-Broadway 2003 St. Louis 2004 West End 2021 Auckland |
Awards | Lucille Lortel Award 2 Richard Rodgers Awards Outer Critics Circle Award |
Bat Boy: The Musical is an American horror rock musical with a book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe, based on a June 23, 1992 Weekly World News story about a half-boy, half-bat, dubbed "Bat Boy", who grew up living in a cave.
Bat Boy premiered at Actors' Gang Theatre in 1997 and has since been produced off-Broadway, in London's West End, at the Edinburgh Festival and in scores of productions throughout the world.