In the standout first-act sequence of Bat Boy , the horror comedy gleefully sinks its teeth into My Fair Lady . A good Christian West Virginian veterinarian family has taken in the titular half-human half-bat, and they’re trying to teach him to be a civilized person. They get him to pronounce the names of farm animals, move onto flash cards with important proper nouns like “Champs-Élysées” and “Great White Way.” He adopts a BBC-ready accent—he’s been watching a lot of Masterpiece Theater —but still stumbles through until his father takes him aside and feeds him the blood of a rabbit. Suddenly everything clicks: “I think I’ve got it!” He screams, launching into one of the songwriter Laurence O’Keefe’s more inspired bits of condensed wordplay: “Brooklyn Bridge, Lenin’s Tomb, Watergate,

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