You re in one Pudding Show, you re in them all. Yes, there s definitely a bit of a Pudding show in the musical approach to this show. There is however in Bat Boy a much more serious throughline in that the show s about one person. People have said is that it s as though someone has set out to write King Lear and really, really failed. It is as though some author set out to write a morality play with a real plot and real characters that will make you weep when they die or fail, but instead of making you weep they just make you laugh really loud.
Audiences are so far ahead of musicals in general.
If you ve heard verse one and chorus one of a love song and nothing changes, and nothing surprises you, your song is over. That was sort of our goal - to set up some sort of recognizable musical comedy moment or musical theater cliche like the beautiful moment, or the loving moment, or the tragic moment, and then just ruin it. That s me. Not quite yet. I m working on a few things with a few people that will do it.