Friday, August 28, 2009
MIT Theatre Guild presents: Bat Boy: The Musical
Kresge Little Theatre
The Weekly World News is deader than Elvis, Hitler, and the
Abominable Beachman put together. But the legacy of the dearly departed
fake tabloid’s greatest cryptid invention — Bat Boy — lives on in (why
not?) song-and-dance form. Bat Boy: The Musical debuted
in LA in 1997 before flapping its fleshy baby wings over to Off
Broadway in 2001 and London’s West End in 2004. Boston got a glimpse at
the BCA a few years ago, but it’s been a while since our last Bat Boy sighting. Leave it to the folks at the MIT Theatre Guild to revive this histrionic, vaguely Edward Scissorhands–like tale of bloodsucking freaks, the women who love them, and the Deliverance–grade
rednecks who wanna slay them. Don’t deny your beast inside; get thee to
the Kresge Little Theatre, Building W16, 48 Mass Ave, Cambridge |
August 28–September 12 | $12; $3-$9 students | 617.253.6294 or //web.mit.edu/mtg.
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