Audition Packet

Bat Boy The Musical

Story and Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe

Auditions are April 28 and 29 at 6pm

Callbacks are April 30 at 6pm & 8pm

CSS Theatre

ABOUT THE PLAY
Based on a story in the Weekly World News, 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 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 townsfolk 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 origin.

Bat Boy manages to be many things: an incisive look at how we treat people who are different, a love story, a family drama, and a Greek tragedy. The story may be derived from an improbable piece of tabloid sensationalism, but it is a timely show which speaks to themes which run through our world today: how society demonizes those who are different; the determination to deny one's self in order to fit in; and how fundamentalist "Christian charity" quickly closes its doors to those it deems unsuitable.