Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical is a loose retelling of the Peter Pan story. Strat is the leader of “The Lost” who never ages and falls in love with Raven, who also falls for him. 

The music is the highlight of the performance. Early in the second act is 1977’s “For Crying Out Loud”. “And I will receive somebody with open arms, open eyes / Open up the sky and let the planet that I love shine through / For crying out loud, you know I love you”. This is such a theatrical song and it fits in perfectly in this context. 

The penultimate song is “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”. Jim Steinman refused to allow Meat Loaf to record this song because he saw it as a “woman’s song”. Celine Dion’s 1996 version is the one that became famous and has over 391 million streams on Spotify. “But when you touch me like this / And you hold me like that / I just have to admit that it’s all coming back to me / When I touch you like this / And I hold you like that / It’s so hard to believe, but it’s all coming back to me / It’s all coming back, it’s all coming back to me now”. The performance of this song is excellent! 

The show ends with Meat Loaf’s biggest hit, 1993’s “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)”, which has over 336 million streams (combining the two versions). “I would do anything for love, I’ll never lie to you and that’s a fact / But I’ll never forget the way you feel right now, Oh no, no way.” The lyric “But I Won’t Do That” sounds like there is something she is asking him to do that he won’t do. It would make more sense if it was “And I Won’t Do That” to describe never lying and never forgetting the feeling. 

Cost of a ticket: $97 (Orchestra)

PlaylistHQ Economic Rating: Good Value –

Rating Scale: Exceptional > Good Value > Discounted > Go for Free > Don’t Bother

Unlike most musicals, this tour only does only one night in each city and is playing in some quite small towns. Get tickets now for Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical! Also, get tickets here for future shows at The Auditorium. 

Quinn Delaney