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Bat Out of Hell: The Musical
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical (promoted as Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell: The Musical) is a rock musical with music, lyrics and book by Jim Steinman, partly based on the Bat Out of Hell album by Meat Loaf. Steinman wrote all of the songs, most of which are on the Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums (Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose). The musical is a loose retelling of Peter Pan, set in post-apocalyptic Manhattan (now named 'Obsidian'), and follows Strat, the forever young leader of 'The Lost' who has fallen in love with Raven, daughter of Falco, the tyrannical ruler of Obsidian. Steinman has said in interviews that a version of the Peter Pan story inspired some of the songs on the 1977 album Bat Out of Hell, and that is the connection between this musical and the 1977 album. Before the album Bat Out of Hell was released, Steinman worked on a musical of that storyline that was then called "Neverland".
The musical premiered at the Manchester Opera House in Manchester, England, on February 17, 2017, and ran there until April 29, 2017. The production was directed by Jay Scheib and choreographed by Emma Portner. It was produced by David Sonenberg, Michael Cohl, Randy Lennox and Tony Smith. The show originally starred Andrew Polec as Strat and Christina Bennington as Raven, with Rob Fowler as Falco and Sharon Sexton as Sloane.
The show opened at the London Coliseum on June 5, 2017, and ran there until August 22, 2017, before moving to Toronto, from October 14, to January 7, 2018. The musical returned to London and to the Dominion Theatre on April 2, 2018. An original cast recording album was released by BOOH Label on October 20, 2017. In 2023 the show was taken on an international tour (UK, Ireland, Germany and Australia) returning to the Peacock Theatre in London in 2023. In 2025 the show returned for a UK tour, returning to the Peacock Theatre in May/June, before going on to other UK cities.
In 1968, while at Amherst College, Jim Steinman wrote a newspaper article about the contemporary issues of the time, then decided to turn that into a rock musical called The Dream Engine, working with fellow student Barry Keating, who became the show's director. The Dream Engine starred Steinman as Baal, the charismatic 19-year-old leader of a tribe of semi-feral youths in California, and showed Baal's interactions with tribe members and recruits (inductions involving pain rituals) and various adult authority figures (the chief of police, a draft board representative, a psychiatrist, and killer nuns). Staging was very much influenced by Bertolt Brecht and The Living Theatre. It also contained the song "Who Needs The Young" and the "Hot Summer Nights" speech, which are in Bat Out Of Hell: The Musical.
Rights to The Dream Engine were bought by Joseph Papp of the New York Shakespeare Festival in April 1969, and upon his graduation that summer, Steinman was recruited to refine his work for larger productions, but these productions never took shape. By 1973, Papp moved Steinman from The Dream Engine and put him to work on the rock musical More Than You Deserve, where Steinman met the actor and singer Meat Loaf.
In August 1974, Steinman wrote to Papp to say he had rewritten much of The Dream Engine and it was now a musical called Neverland. Steinman was unable to secure the rights from the J. M. Barrie estate to put on the musical as it was.
Throughout 1975, Meat Loaf, Steinman, Ellen Foley, and others worked on the National Lampoon Road Show, substituting for John Belushi and Gilda Radner who had left to work on Saturday Night Live. During this time, Steinman wrote most of the songs for the album Bat Out of Hell and began to rehearse and record them with Meat Loaf and Foley.
In early 1977, Steinman went to Washington, D.C. to work on a workshop production of Neverland, which had many of the core elements of The Dream Engine, but was now a futuristic sci-fi interpretation of Peter Pan. Foley starred as Wendy. In September 1977, the Bat Out of Hell album was released.
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical (promoted as Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell: The Musical) is a rock musical with music, lyrics and book by Jim Steinman, partly based on the Bat Out of Hell album by Meat Loaf. Steinman wrote all of the songs, most of which are on the Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums (Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose). The musical is a loose retelling of Peter Pan, set in post-apocalyptic Manhattan (now named 'Obsidian'), and follows Strat, the forever young leader of 'The Lost' who has fallen in love with Raven, daughter of Falco, the tyrannical ruler of Obsidian. Steinman has said in interviews that a version of the Peter Pan story inspired some of the songs on the 1977 album Bat Out of Hell, and that is the connection between this musical and the 1977 album. Before the album Bat Out of Hell was released, Steinman worked on a musical of that storyline that was then called "Neverland".
The musical premiered at the Manchester Opera House in Manchester, England, on February 17, 2017, and ran there until April 29, 2017. The production was directed by Jay Scheib and choreographed by Emma Portner. It was produced by David Sonenberg, Michael Cohl, Randy Lennox and Tony Smith. The show originally starred Andrew Polec as Strat and Christina Bennington as Raven, with Rob Fowler as Falco and Sharon Sexton as Sloane.
The show opened at the London Coliseum on June 5, 2017, and ran there until August 22, 2017, before moving to Toronto, from October 14, to January 7, 2018. The musical returned to London and to the Dominion Theatre on April 2, 2018. An original cast recording album was released by BOOH Label on October 20, 2017. In 2023 the show was taken on an international tour (UK, Ireland, Germany and Australia) returning to the Peacock Theatre in London in 2023. In 2025 the show returned for a UK tour, returning to the Peacock Theatre in May/June, before going on to other UK cities.
In 1968, while at Amherst College, Jim Steinman wrote a newspaper article about the contemporary issues of the time, then decided to turn that into a rock musical called The Dream Engine, working with fellow student Barry Keating, who became the show's director. The Dream Engine starred Steinman as Baal, the charismatic 19-year-old leader of a tribe of semi-feral youths in California, and showed Baal's interactions with tribe members and recruits (inductions involving pain rituals) and various adult authority figures (the chief of police, a draft board representative, a psychiatrist, and killer nuns). Staging was very much influenced by Bertolt Brecht and The Living Theatre. It also contained the song "Who Needs The Young" and the "Hot Summer Nights" speech, which are in Bat Out Of Hell: The Musical.
Rights to The Dream Engine were bought by Joseph Papp of the New York Shakespeare Festival in April 1969, and upon his graduation that summer, Steinman was recruited to refine his work for larger productions, but these productions never took shape. By 1973, Papp moved Steinman from The Dream Engine and put him to work on the rock musical More Than You Deserve, where Steinman met the actor and singer Meat Loaf.
In August 1974, Steinman wrote to Papp to say he had rewritten much of The Dream Engine and it was now a musical called Neverland. Steinman was unable to secure the rights from the J. M. Barrie estate to put on the musical as it was.
Throughout 1975, Meat Loaf, Steinman, Ellen Foley, and others worked on the National Lampoon Road Show, substituting for John Belushi and Gilda Radner who had left to work on Saturday Night Live. During this time, Steinman wrote most of the songs for the album Bat Out of Hell and began to rehearse and record them with Meat Loaf and Foley.
In early 1977, Steinman went to Washington, D.C. to work on a workshop production of Neverland, which had many of the core elements of The Dream Engine, but was now a futuristic sci-fi interpretation of Peter Pan. Foley starred as Wendy. In September 1977, the Bat Out of Hell album was released.