Just in time for Halloween, could this finally be Bat Boy: The Musical’s moment?

The show—story and book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming, music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe—was first performed in 1997, and has had runs off-Broadway, in London and elsewhere. But so long away from the stage, and with so little known of it, has accorded the show a cult, curio status—perfect then for New York City Center’s Encores! slate, which revives, in semi-staged form, forgotten or neglected American musicals.

Packed with much-loved Broadway stars, this lovely, just-opened production (booking to Nov. 9)—directed by Alex Timbers and with lushly confident orchestration led by Andrew Resnick—brings Bat Boy blazing-eyed, mouth ringed with blood, triumphantly out of the shadows.

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