The MIT Musical Theatre Guild's BAT BOY: The Musical Closes This Weekend 9/12

The MIT Musical Theatre Guild proudly presents its Summer 2009 production of Bat Boy: The Musical

Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe
Remaing dates are September 10-12 at 8PM

Performances will take place in Kresge Little Theater, on the lower floor of the Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

For more information or to reserve tickets: please visit http://web.mit.edu/mtg
Reservations can also be made by telephone at 617-253-6294.

Directed by Kristen Hughes
Vocal Direction by Shawn Gelzleichter
Orchestra Direction by Stephen Peters
Choreographed by Dawn Erickson

Starring:
Steven Camiña ** Greg Lohman ** Kerry Brooke Steere ** Karen Hart ** Rich Fulkerson ** Mike Piacentini ** Dave Berger ** Edmund Golaski ** Jackie Rogoff ** Priscilla Army ** Nicole O'Keeffe ** Chris Brathwaite

Tickets:
$3 First Year MIT students
$6 MIT and Wellesley Students
$9 MIT Community, Senior Citizens, other students
$12 General Public

Group rates availableBased on a story in The Weekly World News, /BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL/ is a musical comedy/horror show about a half boy/half bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia. For lack of a better solution, the local sheriff brings Bat Boy to the home of the town veterinarian, Dr. Parker, where he is eventually accepted as a member of the family and taught to act like a "normal" boy by the veterinarian's wife, Meredith, and teenage daughter, Shelley. Bat Boy is happy with his new life, but when he naively tries to fit in with the narrow minded people of Hope Falls, they turn on him, prodded by the machinations of Dr. Parker, who secretly despises Bat Boy. Shelley and Bat Boy, who have fallen in love, run away together from the ignorant townfolk and have a blissful coupling in the woods, but their happiness is shattered when Meredith arrives and reveals a secret. Soon the entire town arrives and hears the shocking story of Bat Boy's unholy origin. -- Dramatists Play Service, Inc. <http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3013>

Cast, production staff, and orchestra positions are open to everyone, although preference will be given to MIT students and community members in accordance with the MTG constitution.

Constitution of the MIT Musical Theatre Guild, Section 2.1: "A full awareness of the Musical Theatre Guild's affiliation with MIT will be maintained. In filling cast and production positions, priority will be given to members of the MIT community, and in particular to MIT students."

The MIT community includes all MIT students, alumni, faculty, staff, their immediate families, and Wellesley students. The membership of the Musical Theatre Guild consists of anyone who has worked on an MTG show within the past year, regardless of MIT affiliation.

MTG is a volunteer organization; compensation is not provided to production staff, cast, or orchestra members.