Bat Boy at New York City Center, starring Taylor Trensch.
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“Poor little person with eyes so sad, where in the dark did they hide you?” sings the actress Kerry Butler as she plays Meredith Parker, a mother rescuing a half-monster, half-child who’s been found in a nearby cave. “Poor little creature, it makes me mad, to think of the childhood denied you.”
Butler stars in the rock musical Bat Boy, currently scorching through a two-week run at New York City Center. At once endearing, alienating and hilarious, Butler croons sweetly to the show’s titular long-toothed child, who huddles in a cage in her living room.