„Bat Boy“ kehrt nach 20 Jahren zurück. Ist es ein Schlüssel für die Zukunft des Broadway?

*A wave of musicals once thought lost are being re-written. As the economics for new tuners become more challenging, these shows might be coming just in time.*

*Chris Rovzar for Bloomberg News*

“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.

Her hopeful lament might as easily be sung for the show itself. Bat Boy hasn’t been performed on a professional stage in New York City in more than 20 years. A promising 2001 off-Broadway run was cut short after Sept. 11, and despite a cult following, subsequent American productions have been limited mostly to college and high school stages. Now it’s back, teeth freshly polished, in a star-stuffed iteration that’s been thoroughly rewritten, with five new songs to boot.

This is the stuff theater kid dreams are made of. [Read the full story here.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-05/-bat-boy-musical-returns-does-it-hold-the-key-to-broadway-s-future?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MjUxNTQxMSwiZXhwIjoxNzYzMTIwMjExLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNTk2Q0FHUFdDSkowMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMzU0MUJFQjhBQUY0QkUwQkFBOUQzNkI3QjlCRjI4OCJ9.–ueN6f8F3g-z1bJTWb3IwgpH9_KKmwywZtAb3j4dig)