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Bat Boy: The Musical is currently being staged in productions of various sizes around the world. A movie adaptation directed by John Landis is in development, with no casting announced or shooting date set.

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Mashup

Great fan mashup of "Comfort and Joy" from Bat Boy: The Musical with some obscure animated film... (Thanks, Susan!)...
May 19, 2008

Bummer

The Weekly World News is over. I issued a statement....
July 23, 2007

Go see Keythe Farley

The Bat Boy co-author plays the title role in an Actors' Gang adaptation of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and is getting rave reviews. At the Ivy Substation in Culver City. Get tickets....
July 10, 2007

He'll always be Bat Boy to me

Deven May, whose talent and commitment were essential to the success of Bat Boy: The Musical, was so good in the lead role that he became identified with it, which was both a blessing and a curse for him. But...
June 02, 2007

Looking for Bat Boy fans

Kerry Lengel, a reporter for the Arizona Republic, is writing a story about a Phoenix Bat Boy production. He writes: I'm trying to track down a rabid Bat Boy fan, one of those who travel to shows -- and who...
May 10, 2007

See "Bat Boy" in Nashville

Looks like a good production....
April 04, 2007

From Iraq to Hope Falls

An Iraq War veteran plays the role of Bat Boy....
February 16, 2007

Bat Boy

attacks Pennsylvania college....
February 02, 2007

All singing! All dancing! All girls!

An all-girl high school in L.A. is putting on a production of Bat Boy: Marlborough School will present "Bat Boy: The Musical," the '90s rock musical ripped from tabloid headlines, at 3:00 p.m. on November 16 and at 7:00 p.m....
November 13, 2006

Blogging Bat Boy

The University of Mary Washington is putting on a production of Bat Boy, and the whole process is heavily blogged. Main blog. Shelley's blog. Dr. Parker's blog. (Thanks, Lyssa.)...
November 03, 2006

Rare Bat Boy appearance in L.A.

For complicated licensing reasons I don't fully understand, Bat Boy is rarely produced in Los Angeles. But there is a production coming up, opening this Saturday right down the street from the little theater where the play was born: Bat...
September 28, 2006

Fringe Bat Boy

Congrats to Chris Adams and company on a well-reviewed show. Tickets here....
August 09, 2006

Keythe Farley in The Black Rider

Here in L.A., you may be able to catch Keythe Farley in The Black Rider at the Ahmanson before it closes. If you don't make it, here's what he looked like in the show:...
June 08, 2006

At the DebateBlog

You may know that I am debating a Calvinist, centuri0n, at his DebateBlog. And if you're at all like me, you're wondering why I bother. In response to my latest post in which I say this... We know that in...
May 01, 2006

Bat Boy flies home again

Another West Virginia production of Bat Boy....
April 23, 2006

Bat Boy SF

Review....
November 03, 2005

"Bat Boy: The Musical" in San Francisco

Bat Boy attacks San Francisco this Halloween. Check out the related blog: Becoming Bat Boy. (Thanks for the tip, Eli Newsom!)...
October 18, 2005

Bat Boy: The Musical

For those who wondered what the hell happened to the Bat Boy: The Musical official site a few weeks ago, the truth is, I don't really know the details. Apparently the previous owners (the producers of the Off-Broadway show) let...
August 31, 2005

The humor-impaired strike again!

A letter to the editor in the La Cañada Valley Sun: What is Play Teaching? The major topic of discussion at the La Cañada Governing Board meeting on April 19 was the selection of "Bat Boy" as the All-School musical....
May 06, 2005

"Parents Wary of Dark Side of 'Bat Boy'"

L.A. Times on the La Canada controversy. Good, fair story by Pat Biederman, who did her research. Apparently they're talking about this story on KROQ this morning. Keythe, Larry and I can't wait to see this production....
April 28, 2005

End of story?

I hope so. 'Bat Boy' all set to make its LCF run They get letters: At 16, I was exposed to a play containing many of the controversial references and then some found in "Bat Boy": patricide, incest and even...
April 23, 2005

Roundup of today in Bat Boy...

--NOTbatboy.com has taken down the copy of the formal complaint from the website, for reasons unknown. But if you want to see what the site looked like previously, Google has a cache of the previous version. --Commentary by Ann Doneen...
April 21, 2005

Perversion

Apparently my sarcastic comment below calling the La Cañada High School drama students "little perverts" has resulted in a mini-storm of scandal itself. The students, naturally, loved the epithet, but some supporters of the students have written me that Bat...
April 21, 2005

Bat Boy update

Glendale News Press on last night's meeting: Parents, students and teachers packed La Cañada Unified School District's board meeting Tuesday night, some to express support, others disapproval of La Cañada High School's spring musical. [...] Most students...spoke passionately about the...
April 20, 2005

Bat Boy 1, Focus on the Family 0

Sweet Jesus! I just got an insider update on the Bat Boy situation in La Cañada (see entry below). The Board has officially supported the drama department's decision to put on the play. Even though, as my source tells me,...
April 19, 2005

Bat Boy banned again?

Now a second protest movement is brewing to ban a high-school theater department from staging Bat Boy: The Musical. But this one could be bigger than the last one. Tonight there is a school board meeting in ultra-conservative La Cañada...
April 19, 2005

Bat Boy suppressed in Indiana!

For the first time that I know of, a mean ol' principal has stopped a scheduled high-school production of Bat Boy from being performed. It's been deemed "offensive and impossible to modify." (Best. Review. Ever.) Bryan Fonseca, producing director of...
March 17, 2005

Always the last to know

You think you know people, but you never really do, I guess. Keythe Farley, Larry O'Keefe and I have been working together since 1997. We're all pretty good friends, too, I thought. But now, in a review of Bat Boy...
March 03, 2005

Big in Japan

Bat Boy is also playing in Japan, and it sounds like the director really gets it....
February 23, 2005

A different kind of bat boy

There have been times when I have regretted the title of Bat Boy: The Musical. People unfamiliar with the Weekly World News and Bat Boy (turns out there are a lot of these people) tend to assume that the play...
February 22, 2005

Bat Boy flies into Toronto

Tonight is the first preview of Bat Boy's premiere run in my favorite country, to which I hope to flee before the fascists down here kill or imprison me. (Damn, I wish that was a joke.) Check out the batboy.ca...
February 09, 2005

David Hasselhoff: "Bat Boy" fan

Here he is with the London cast of Bat Boy: The Musical: And here's what just went up on a sign outside the Shaftesbury Theatre: Click pix for bigger. (Pictures by Lori Machens.)...
December 03, 2004

London "Bat Boy" cast up for honors

Emma Williams, who plays Shelley in the West End production of Bat Boy: The Musical, writes: Well, we got our first award nominations today! Woohoo! They are as follows: Deven May - Best Actor in a musical Rebecca Vere -...
November 30, 2004

John Landis to direct "Bat Boy: The Musical" movie

Well, Harry at Ain't It Cool News has the scoop, so I guess it can't hurt to reveal the info here on this little weblog. John Landis has been hired to direct the movie version of Bat Boy: The Musical....
November 18, 2004

"Bat Boy" taxi

One hundred of these now cruising the streets of London... And front of house, as they say... Thanks to Lori Machens for the pictures....
September 30, 2004

Bat Boy: The Controversy

Bat Boy: The Musical opens on London's West End to reviews that aren't so much mixed as they are polarized.
September 14, 2004

More Bat Boy photos

September 10, 2004

Pictures from London

By Keythe Farley......
August 27, 2004

To Leeds or not to Leeds

I've been trying to decide whether I can squeeze in a trip to Leeds in June for the production of Bat Boy at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
May 15, 2004

Eddie Clontz, Weekly World News editor, dead at 56

Keythe Farley just emailed me to tell me that Eddie Clontz is dead. No word on when he's scheduled to be sighted alive in Tallahassee. Eddie Clontz believed in Bat Boy: The Musical before anyone else--other than the authors--did. With...
February 02, 2004

"He'll glock a cap through your shizznack"

Man oh man, but do some people really love their Bat Boys. Thanks, Fred, for one of the best reviews of Bat Boy I've read. (Warning: Spoiler at the end.) Plus those pictures suggest it's one of the bloodiest productions ever. Quite an achievement.
December 10, 2003

Bat Boy in Houston review

No fewer than two members of the Houston cast of Bat Boy have written to tell me about the great review they got from the Houston Chronicle. Both are mentioned in this excerpt: Kara Greenberg gives a polished and witty...
December 09, 2003

Kerry Butler

Wow. If you feel like getting chills, go check out Kerry Butler singing "Somewhere That's Green" and "Suddenly Seymour" in the TV clips at her official site. Kerry played Shelley in the Off-Broadway Bat Boy. Looks like she owns this...
December 06, 2003

"Bat Boy: The Musical" Houston poster

Here's a jpeg of the poster for the Houston production of Bat Boy: The Musical, opening December 3. There have been some good posters in regional shows. I like Bat Boy's ears and fangs in this portrayal, but I wish he were bald. That's always been a producer/author conflict on Bat Boy productions. Larry, Keythe and I strongly feel that Bat Boy should look like the freak portrayed in the Weekly World News, but sometimes those who worry about filling seats in the theater try to make Bat Boy more "attractive."
November 17, 2003

Keythe Farley invites you to a graveyard

My pal, "Bat Boy" co-writer and actor extraordinaire Keythe Farley sends the following about his upcoming performances in L.A.: Dear friends, I'm playing Jacob Marley in the Circle X theatre company production of MARLEY'S GHOST. �I hope you'll come see...
November 13, 2003