- Lifestyle & Sports
- 21 Jun 22
The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre have announced that the award-winning musical will be coming to Dublin and will run from the 30th of August to the 10th of September 2022.
Tickets are available now for Bat Out Of Hell - The Musical which features an exciting selection of Meat Loaf's and Jim Steinman's greatest hits.
The tour will see the return of Glenn Adamson (American Idiot) as Strat, Martha Kirby (Grease, Rags the Musical) as Raven and original leading cast members Rob Fowler (Mamma Mia!) as Falco and Sharon Sexton (Mamma Mia!) as Sloane, plus Killian Thomas Lefevre as Tink, Joelle Moses as Zahara, James Chisholm as Jagwire, Kellie Gnauck as Valkyrie, and Danny Whelan as Ledoux.
Also in the cast are Laura Johnson as Kwaiden, Jamie Jukes as Markevitch, Rebecca Lafferty as Scherzzo, James Lowrie as Denym, Rory Maguire as Astroganger, Amy Matthews as Vilmos, Samuel Pope as Hoffman and Alternate Strat, Luke Street as Hollander, Leonardo Vieira as O’Dessasuite, Beth Woodcock as Spinotti and Jayme-Lee Zanoncelli as Goddesilla.
Bat Out of Hell – The Musical was lauded by critics when it played limited seasons at Manchester Opera House, London Coliseum and London’s Dominion Theatre from 2017 to 2019. The rock musical also ran successfully in Canada, Germany and at New York’s City Centre in 2019.
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)'.
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For the stage musical, the legendary and award-winning Jim Steinman 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'.
The UK and Ireland Tour of the rock musical is produced by David Sonenberg, Michael Cohl and Tony Smith, with executive producer Julian Stoneman.
In Bat Out of Hell – The Musical, Mr Steinman's electrifying rock songs propel an epic story of rebellious youth and passion as Strat, the immortal leader of The Lost, has fallen in love with Raven, the beautiful daughter of the tyrannical ruler Falco.
Tickets are available here through Ticketmaster and are priced from €21.