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Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre)
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Bat Boy: The Musical is an American rock musical with its book written by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and Lawrence O'Keefe doing its music and lyrics. It's a musical production loosely based on the exploits of the Weekly World News regular, "Bat Boy".In the town of Hope Falls, West Virginia, three kids, Rick, Ron, and Ruthie, are spelunking when they discover a deformed kid in the cave. The kid injures Ruthie but Ron and Rick manage to subdue it and bring it to the town's sheriff, who brings Bat Boy over to Meredith and Shelley Parker, who agree to keep him until Meredith's husband, veterinarian Dr. Parker, returns home. Meredith and Shelley try to tame the creature whom Meredith names Edgar, but when the town of Hope Falls suddenly discover their cows mysteriously dying, eventually blaming Bat Boy, and Dr. Parker planning to put the creature down, any effort Shelley and Meredith take to dispel the fears surrounding Bat Boy and integrate it into society may be easier said than done...Ever since its first premiere in 1997, this musical has since been produced and performed off-Broadway, in London's West End and in worldwide scores and showings.Not to be confused with Batman. | |
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Instant Expert: Bat Boy goes from crouching savage to cultured dandy with a high school equivalency diploma in eight weeks. The scene is also an Affectionate Parody of My Fair Lady. | |
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...And That Would Be Wrong | |
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...And That Would Be Wrong: Dr. Parker screams to the town that he will kill again, only to deflect his statement on to the Bat Boy. | |
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Sniff Sniff Nom | |
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Sniff Sniff Nom: Bat Boy attempts to eat chicken, stew, a couch, and a book. | |
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Imagine the Audience Naked | |
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Imagine the Audience Naked: During Shelley and Meredith's verse of "Comfort and Joy", Meredith tells Shelley to imagine the revival attendants "in their underwear" while they get Bat Boy to integrate into society. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Meredith and Dr. Parker don't reveal that Meredith is Edgar's biological mother until the climax of the story. Their motivations for keeping this secret are more sympathetic than most examples of the trope, but if that information had been revealed earlier, the ending Meredith fantasizes about in "Three Bedroom House" could have actually happened. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "Dance With Me, Darling" for Dr. Parker as he sings about his relation with Meredith. Dr. Parker's parts in "Comfort and Joy" expresses his desire to get rid of Bat Boy. "Apology to a Cow" for Edgar, where he vows to get revenge on those who've hurt him. "Find/Kill the Bat Boy" for Dr. Parker and the townsfolk as they rally to kill Bat Boy. "I Imagine You're Upset" is partly an Angry Mob Song for the townsfolk, and Dr. Parker has a Villainous Lament towards the end. "Whatcha Wanna Do Tonight?" for Rick as he threatens Bat Boy for harming his sister Ruthie. "Mrs. Taylor's Lullaby" for Mrs. Taylor, who sings Ruthie to sleep promising her that she'll have Bat Boy killed. | |
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Looks Like Orlok | |
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Looks Like Orlok: Bat Boy with his bald head, pale skin and Pointy Ears make him look like a beast crossed with a man. | |
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Plot Armor | |
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Plot Armor: Shelley survives throughout the musical despite facing situations that could have harmed or killed her such as when Bat Boy nearly sinks his teeth into her arm only to be interrupted by an arriving Meredith. | |
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Training Montage | |
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Training Montage: "Show You a Thing or Two" has Meredith train Bat Boy's knowledge and intellect. Bat Boy later proves himself to be just as smart as anyone. | |
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Coming and Going | |
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Coming and Going: The musical has plenty of deaths to link up the sex moments in this show... | |
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The Sheriff | |
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There's also Sheriff Reynolds, who tries to protect Bat Boy, wants to avoid giving him in to an institute, and keeps telling the townsfolk not to shoot him. | |
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Please Dump Me | |
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Please Dump Me: Bat Boy tells Shelley to leave him in the woods to keep her safe. Shelley offers her arm for Bat Boy to feast on instead. | |
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Burn the Witch! | |
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Burn the Witch!: The townspeople do this to Bat Boy because he's different, allegedly monstrous and supposedly killing their cows. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Bat Boy is stabbed by Dr. Parker at the end. | |
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Deceased Parents Are the Best | |
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Deceased Parents Are the Best: Meredith dies when Dr. Parker, who had slashed his own throat, stabs her for trying to intervene when Bat Boy got stabbed mere seconds earlier. This leaves a still-living Shelley with both of her parents and her twin brother dead, leaving behind a horrifying memory of them all in the poor girl. | |
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The Eleven O'Clock Number | |
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The Eleven O'Clock Number: "Apology to a Cow" is Bat Boy's last major song before things get worse. | |
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Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number | |
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Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number: "Comfort and Joy" has Dr. Parker resolving to save his marriage with Meredith by killing Bat Boy, Shelley and Meredith planning to show the townsfolk that Bat Boy is not to be feared, the townsfolk expressing their hopes of the cattle receiving a cure during the revival. | |
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Hospital Surprise | |
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Hospital Surprise: Ruthie is given a lethal injection from Dr. Parker as Act 1 ends. | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal: A large part of Bat Boy's character conflict, especially shown in "Let Me Walk Among You" and his part of "Comfort and Joy". To be fair, he has the whole Vegetarian Vampire struggle without any of the traditional vampire powers. He does not win this conflict. | |
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I Want My Mommy! | |
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I Want My Mommy!: Meredith after she gets raped by bats and Ruthie after she gets bitten. | |
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You Are Too Late | |
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You Are Too Late: The institute man is called to take the Bat Boy, but by the time he arrives, nearly all the main characters, including Bat Boy, are already dead. | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: After testing an experimental pheromone, Meredith's rape by Thomas is treated dramatically but a flock of bats raping her later is played for laughs. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Meredith reveals that the Bat Boy and Shelley are fraternal twins, a product of when Dr. Parker and a flock of bats raped her one night, Dr. Parker, overcome with hatred for the Bat Boy, slits his own throat so Bat Boy will kill him, and in his dying gasp stabs both Bat Boy and Meredith as Shelley and the rest of the townspeople look on in horror, leaving them to tell the horrific and tragic tale to the arriving institute man. | |
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Raised by Wolves | |
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Raised by Wolves: Bat Boy was raised by bats. | |
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Her Heart Will Go On | |
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Her Heart Will Go On: Shelley survives the entire ordeal with her dear Bat Boy whom she grew attached to dead. She is understandably grieved over Bat Boy's death, but soldiers on to begin the town's reflection over what they had learned over the ordeal. | |
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All Musicals Are Adaptations | |
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All Musicals Are Adaptations: They turned a tabloid from the Weekly World News into a musical. | |
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Angry Mob Song | |
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"I Imagine You're Upset" is partly an Angry Mob Song for the townsfolk, and Dr. Parker has a Villainous Lament towards the end. | |
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Thank Your Prey | |
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Thank Your Prey: "Apology to a Cow" has Bat Boy apologising to one of the cows he found as he feasts on it. | |
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Serial Killer | |
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Serial Killer: Dr. Parker kills off a couple of characters in the show. | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Brother–Sister Incest: The Bat Boy and Shelley are actually twins born at around the same time. | |
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Phrase Catcher | |
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Phrase Catcher: "Sweet Wounded Jesus!" to Edgar. | |
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Belief Makes You Stupid | |
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Belief Makes You Stupid: Every townsperson in the show practices the Christian faith and use it to help them fend off any evil, but it blinded their judgement on Bat Boy and it never stopped their cows from dying especially since the cows were raised on the side of a mountain with little oxygen and water to go by. Highlighted in "Christian Charity" where Sheriff Reynolds wants to take action to contain the potential threat Bat Boy might pose, but decides to spare him and let the Parkers take him in due to his beliefs. | |
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"I Want" Song | |
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"I Want" Song: "Let Me Walk Among You", sung by the Bat Boy when he wants the townspeople to accept him. Also, most of the solos in "Comfort and Joy." | |
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Interspecies Romance | |
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Interspecies Romance: The Bat Boy and Shelley, as well as the other participants in the interspecies orgy during "Children, Children". | |
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Murder-Suicide | |
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Murder-Suicide: Parker slashes his own throat and then stabs Bat Boy and Meredith. | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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Back from the Dead: During the final number, the dead Parkers and Bat Boy come back to sing. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Rick Taylor threatened to kill Bat Boy during the first few minutes of the musical. As such, no tears are shed when Bat Boy attacks him and Dr. Parker gives him a lethal injection. | |
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Big "YES!" | |
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Big "YES!": Shelley when her father asks if she had sex with Bat Boy. | |
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Cross-Cast Role | |
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Crosscast Role: Many of the characters crossdress due to the small cast and need to differentiate characters played by the same actor from one another, but the most obvious crossdressing character is Mrs. Taylor, which is always a drag role Played for Laughs. | |
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Dr. Jerk | |
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Dr. Jerk: Dr. Parker turns out to be a Serial Killer who aims to kill Bat Boy while slaughtering others to prove Bat Boy is dangerous. Also a Deadly Doctor. | |
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Death by Irony | |
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Death by Irony: Mrs. Taylor kills her remaining son while trying to protect him from Bat Boy. | |
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Half-Human Hybrid | |
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Half-Human Hybrid: Bat Boy himself is a human but with fang-like canine teeth and pointy ears like a bat's. | |
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Black Sheep | |
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Black Sheep: Bat Boy is treated as not part of the town; the fact that he was accused of nearly everything that goes wrong doesn't help either. | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing: Subverted, when Ron dies people at first are relieved because they think the Bat Boy is dead, but quickly turns to horror when they find it was Ron. | |
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Spoof Aesop | |
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"AND DON'T KILL MRS. TAYLOR'S KIDS!": Never kill any children. It will only cause grief to their parents. Mrs. Taylor lost all of her children over the course of the musical. Ruthie died by a lethal injection from Dr. Parker, Rick perished by a combination of getting injured by Bat Boy and receiving a lethal injection from Dr. Parker, and Ron was burned to death with smoke inhalation when Mrs. Taylor herself lit the slaughterhouse, thinking Bat Boy was in there. As a result, Mrs. Taylor is left grieving over the loss of her remaining child, having lost him after losing Ruthie and Ron earlier. | |
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Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics | |
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Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics: There's a character who's a Serial Killer in the form of Dr. Parker made by the writers of this show to kill people. | |
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Forgiveness | |
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"Forgive": If anyone does you any wrong, you should turn the other cheek and let bygones be bygones. The Taylors did not forgive Bat Boy for injuring Ruthie and wanted revenge on him. Rick gets attacked by Bat Boy in return (albeit motivated by the sight of blood). Ron also dies trying to find and kill Bat Boy in the slaughterhouse, with his own mother burning him to death thinking he was Bat Boy. Dr. Parker also did not forgive Meredith over a triviality either, causing the vet to plot revenge against Bat Boy and become the musical's Serial Killer. | |
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Child by Rape | |
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Child by Rape: Shelley and Batboy were the result of Dr. Parker and later some bats sexually violating Meredith, resulting her in giving birth to a pair of really awkward fraternal twins.) | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": When Meredith tells the Bat Boy that she is his mother, as well as when Shelley tries to run away from Meredith, thinking that she has become like the angry mob who declares the Bat Boy an abomination. | |
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Exiled to the Couch | |
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Exiled to the Couch: Dr. Parker is seen on the family couch after arguing with his wife Meredith over Bat Boy. | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre) / int_c83a589c | comment |
Luke, I Am Your Father: Played Straight and Inverted; Bat Boy is actually Meredith's son, having given birth to him when she was first violated by Dr. Parker before they hooked up, and then by some bats. Also, because Shelley was born at the same time, she and Bat Boy are twin siblings. | |
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Minor Character, Major Song | |
Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre) / int_cb7fda55 | comment |
Minor Character, Major Song: Pan gets one of these in act II when with "Children Children". He is never named and randomly shows up and sings a song that results in an interspecies orgy. | |
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Intercourse with You | |
Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre) / int_dbfe8427 | comment |
Intercourse with You: "Children, Children" is made of this trope. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre) / int_dca70c44 | comment |
Reasonable Authority Figure: Faith healer Billy Hightower is actually one of the play's most levelheaded characters, being an enthusiastic practicer of the Christian faith and almost immediately accepting Bat Boy once he expresses his desire to integrate into society and live with his fellow townsfolk. There's also Sheriff Reynolds, who tries to protect Bat Boy, wants to avoid giving him in to an institute, and keeps telling the townsfolk not to shoot him. | |
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Broken Record | |
Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre) / int_e085feeb | comment |
Broken Record: In "Find him, Kill him", the ensemble constantly chant about killing Bat Boy. | |
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Death by Flashback | |
Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre) / int_e0dbaf11 | comment |
Death by Flashback: Dr. Parker, Meredith and Bat Boy all die but not before explaining the Black Comedy Rape that would give rise to the birth of the last guy in this point. | |
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Final Love Duet | |
Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre) / int_e25ae563 | comment |
Final Love Duet: "Inside Your Heart", sung by the Bat Boy and Shelley. Subverted with Parker and Meredith's duet in "I Imagine You're Upset"; Meredith is forgiving Parker for what he's done and telling him that they can renew their love and start over, while Parker is basically telling Meredith his rationale for killing the Bat Boy. | |
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Greek Chorus | |
Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre) / int_e4d079c1 | comment |
Greek Chorus: "Hold Me Bat Boy", "Comfort and Joy", and "Hold Me Bat Boy Reprise" has multiple folks filling in the harmonies and melodies for all of our characters living and/or deceased. | |
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Shadow Discretion Shot | |
Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre) / int_e602b55b | comment |
Shadow Discretion Shot: The "Revelations" scene is often performed behind a screen as a shadow play. | |
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Fond Memories That Could Have Been | |
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Fond Memories That Could Have Been: "Three Bedroom House" and to some extent "Home For You". | |
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I'm Not Hungry | |
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I'm Not Hungry: Bat Boy will not eat the chicken or stew Meredith prepares for him. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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The London version's new tracks are an inversion: "Hey Freak," which contains a Dark Reprise of the poignant "Mine, All Mine," is over a dozen songs earlier in the play. | |
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Last Words | |
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Last Words: "I am not a boy. I'm an animal!" Bat Boy to Shelley. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: The Ranchers were trying to raise cows on the side of a mountain as Meredith calls them out as the musical nears its conclusion. | |
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Accidental Unfortunate Gesture | |
Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre) / int_fd8cc713 | comment |
Accidental Unfortunate Gesture: Meredith is cleaning a chair rather suggestively while talking to Shelley about romantic relationships. | |
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The Song Before the Storm | |
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The Song Before the Storm: "Comfort and Joy" is only an expression of nearly everyone's hopes as the revival draws near and right before everything hits the fan in the second act. Inverted at the end of the song when Ruthie Taylor is murdered. | |
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