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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