As
with many great works of art, the genesis of the Bat Out Of Hell album occurred
across a number of years. One of the
songs was written while Steinman was an undergraduate at Amherst College in the
late 1960s. In the 1970s, Steinman wrote a theatrical musical that was presented in workshop
in Washington D.C. in 1974 and featured many of the songs that would ultimately
appear on the Bat Out Of Hell album,
which was released in 1977.
Bat Out Of Hell became one of the best-selling albums in history,
selling over 50 million copies worldwide.
16 years later, Steinman scored again with Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell, which contained the massive hit
I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t
Do That).
For
the stage musical, the legendary and award-winning Jim Steinman has incorporated
iconic songs from the Bat Out Of Hell
albums, including You Took The Words
Right Out Of My Mouth, Bat Out Of Hell, I Would Do Anything For Love (But I
Won’t Do That) and Two Out Of Three
Ain’t Bad, as well as two previously unreleased songs, What Part of My Body Hurts the Most and Not Allowed to Love.
Jim
Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical is a romantic adventure about rebellious youth and passionate love, set
against the backdrop of a post-cataclysmic city adrift from the mainland. Strat, the forever young leader of The Lost,
has fallen for Raven, daughter of Falco, the
tyrannical, ruler of Obsidian.
Jim
Steinman’s previous musicals include his collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber
on Whistle Down the Wind, including
the hit single released by Boyzone, No
Matter What, and the musical Tanz der
Vampire, which has been running for 20 years and has been presented in Vienna,
Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Budapest, Warsaw, St Petersburg and Tokyo.
Directed
by award-winning theatre and opera director Jay Scheib, the cast of Bat
Out Of Hell – The Musical is led by newcomer Andrew Polec as Strat and
Christina Bennington as Raven, with Rob Fowler as Falco and Sharon Sexton as
Sloane. Also starring are Aran MacRae as
Tink, Danielle Steers as Zahara, Dom Hartley-Harris as Jagwire, Giovanni Spano
as Ledoux and Patrick Sullivan as Blake.
Also in the cast will be Jemma Alexander, Emily Benjamin, Stuart
Boother, Georgia Carling, Natalie Chua, Jonathan Cordin, Amy Di Bartolomeo,
Jordan Lee Davies, Olly Dobson, Hannah Ducharme, Phoebe Hart, Rosalind James,
Michael Naylor, Eve Norris, Tim Oxbrow, Andrew Patrick-Walker, Benjamin
Purkiss, Anthony Selwyn, Courtney Stapleton and Ruben Van keer.
Bat Out Of Hell - The Musical has book, music and lyrics by Jim Steinman, direction by Jay Scheib,
choreography by Emma Portner, with musical arrangements and supervision by
Michael Reed, set design by Jon Bausor, costume design by Meentje Nielsen,
video design by Finn Ross, lighting design by Patrick Woodroffe, sound design
by Gareth Owen, orchestration by Steve Sidwell, casting by David Grindrod
Associates and musical direction by Robert Emery.
Jim
Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical is produced by David Sonenberg, Michael Cohl, Randy Lennox, Tony Smith,
and produced in association with Bat Out of Hell Holding Limited.
Website: www.BatOutOfHellMusical.com
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& Facebook: @BatTheMusical
