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 | | Bat Boy: The Musical by Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming, Laurence O'Keefe ISBN-10: 9780822218340 ISBN-10: 0-8222-1834-8 ISBN-13: 9780822218340 ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-1834-0 Paperback 2002-09 Dramatists Play Service Find Lowest Price |
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Great Play with My Background CD Great script for an exciting, fun play. Definitely worth performing. In 2007, I recorded a background CD for a local production of this play. I used my keyboards, drum machine and digital multi-track recorder to recreate the music in a karaoke style for their performances. It came out quite authentic. I'm MRPJZ on myspace. | ||
Thrilling! I read this play and later saw it, too, performed at the local high school. The script itself is a brilliant work, but if you really want the full experience it is a must-see show. The music is heart-rending and inspiring, and the lyrics are creative and meaningful. I find the story, if a bit twisted, to be very truthful to our modern society, and it gives insight to our natural discriminatory ways. The Bat Boy has to face the hatred of the townsfolk and struggle to get them to see him for who he really is. This simple theme is packed with twists and turns galore, plenty of suspense, and loads of laughs. Every time a song or a scene gets pulled to a tense or teary climax, there will be a line, or even a subtle word, that provides comic relief. The script alone is wonderful to read, but I recommend you buy the CD with it, because the music is so incredible. Overall, a thrilling play! | ||
This musical rocks! Fully. My school is putting this on and I'm in it. When I first researched it, I was a bit skeptical, but the superb music and writing changed everything - this script only verifies my appreciation for Farley and Flemming's work. There's so much room for fun - choreography, character, song, setting, and things like that. The musical probably has every questionable subject possible: incest, rape, interspecies sex, gore, and the like - we have a box for letters, as most school productions of this likely do. But you watch it (or act in it) and you enjoy it so much, and you laugh yourself silly while thinking it's "so wrong". But that's the great part - it exposes all this material and makes fun of it without losing the sharp, dry wit, the earnest motives. And O'Keefe's music, of course, carries the day. Anyway, the script matches the musical well - it's concise and clear. Watch the show or be in it - it flows so well you'll have the time of your life. | ||
LVLT and BATBOY A few years ago a friend of mine gave me the CD of the original Broadway Cast. I really enjoyed this musical. About a year ater that, the Las Vegas Little Theatre in Las Vegas produced the musical, and I was the Stage Manager. I fell in love with the wild story, and its craziness. BATBOY isn't everyone's cup of tea in the theatre, but I loved the show. If you are an avid reader of "those kinds of newspapers", you'll get more than a few laughs over the CD, and the script. Oh yes, my CD was stolen from me, and I just had to have another copy for my collection. I still have my copy of the play. | ||
Musical Difficulty - 10 / Lyrics & Message - 1 If you can divorce yourself from the lyrics (and show) that really says nothing... and says it quite crassly, the music is amazing. I believe the composer is extremely talented and could make a competition quality arrangement of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall". Too bad this set of music doesn't say something equally important. Perhaps next time. | ||