As I just posted to a Facebook group Caryl and I both frequent:
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A brief message to Meat's fans, some of whom may be seeing the title Bat Out of Hell: The Musical and expecting something different from what is actually being offered:
- This isn't a show about Meat and Jim, though the casting that has appeared in early publicity should have been a clue. This is a fictional story entirely unrelated to Meat Loaf, whilst incorporating many of the songs that Meat made famous on his records. More specifically, this musical is that futuristic Peter Pan story that Jim has worked on, in one form or another, since 1969, and that Meat has reminded the public to be aware of as far back as Storytellers.
- To the best of everyone's knowledge, neither Meat, nor any Meat-like figure, will appear in the show at this time. (Meat once said he'd be interested in playing a role in the production, but given his current health issues, lending a hand with anything more than promotion seems unlikely. I understand there is a chance he might perform in the Broadway cast, but only a chance, and anything claiming to be more firm should be taken with a pinch of salt.)
If this should affect your decision to buy tickets, I'm sure those involved will understand, but as a good person who doesn't wish for others to be inconvenienced, I would rather people were fully aware what they were buying tickets to rather than showing up on the night and feeling tricked into attending something that doesn't meet their expectations.
I strongly encourage you to attend anyway, as anything that someone poured their heart and soul into for almost 50 years can't be all bad, but I understand if you wanted to see something different.
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You just gotta come at this expectation some Meat fans have, explain what it is they are paying to see, and hope they still want to go anyway. As for those who weren't keen on the idea and never wanted to see it, well, they went into the early coverage and got what they expected to see out of it, so why try to convince them?