BAT BOY The Musical Story and Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming. Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe. Following its UK premiere at West Yorkshire Playhouse and West End transfer, performing rights for cult off-Broadway musical BAT BOY - an ebullient, biting, literally batty black comedy - are now released. A great show for younger audiences and can be staged with a small cast. "Big laughs...-a jaggedly imaginative mix of skewering humor and energetic glee." -NY Times. "Outrageously silly and totally charming." -NY Daily News. THE STORY: Based on a cover story in The Weekly World News (which generated the newspaper's second-highest ever sales figures), BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL is a musical comedy/horror show about a half boy/half bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia. For lack of a better solution, the local sheriff brings Bat Boy to the home of the town veterinarian, Dr. Parker, where he is eventually accepted as a member of the family and taught to act like a "normal" boy by the veterinarian's wife, Meredith, and teenage daughter, Shelley. Bat Boy is happy with his new life, but when he naively tries to fit in with the narrow-minded people of Hope Falls, they turn on him, prodded by the machinations of Dr. Parker, who secretly despises Bat Boy. Shelley and Bat Boy, who have fallen in love, run away together from the ignorant townfolk and have a blissful coupling in the woods, but their happiness is shattered when Meredith arrives and reveals a secret. Soon the entire town arrives and hears the shocking story of Bat Boy's unholy origin. Cast: 6M, 4F (doubling, flexible casting) Instrumentation: Keyboard/Conductor, 2nd Keyboard, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums/Percussion LINKS West End production Toronto production London cast album from Amazon.co.uk New York cast album from Amazon.com Website of the Weekly World News