Ruth Leon’s Pocket Review…Bat Boy: The Musical – New York City Center
Ruth Leon recommendsAnd now, as Monty Python would have it, for something completely different. Or is it? The gala production of Bat Boy at the City Center would have you believe that despite having lived in a cave, Bat Boy is just a charming young man who wants nothing more than to fit in with his neighbours in a small American town.
But let’s face it, Bat Boy is a vampire (vampire bat, that is). When he’s hungry, nothing will do but a delicious cup of blood. No matter how domesticated he has become by the nice Parker family, never mind that daughter Shelley Parker falls in love with him, or that the mother Meredith Parker has taught him to speak perfect English English, the fact remains that he’s a vampire and blood will out. (Sorry). Also, he’s got pointy ears which must disqualify him from normal life in Hope Falls.
This beautifully produced, thoroughly silly musical comes out of the same daft sensibility as the Rocky Horror Show or one of the more brainless pantos that British theatre foists on children at Christmas and was apparently a big hit in its first outing in 1992. It would be unfair not to point out that Taylor Trensch plays the pointy-eared one with winning sincerity and a fine way with a song.
This Bat Boy is, well, too batty to live.
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