Bat Out of Hell The Musical Tickets

Love them or hate them, jukebox musicals are a major part of the theatre landscape. In the last two weeks, we’ve seen Bob Dylan-themed Girl from the North Country win two Oliviers, the world premiere of Tina the Musical, and the return of Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of Hell to London. We’ve had a little think about some musicians we’d like to see with their own musical in the West End, what the show-stopping numbers might be, and what plot of these musicals might be; whether they are bio-musicals or based on original storylines*.

The full casting for the return of Jim Steinman’s musical Bat Out of Hell, featuring the songs of rock legend Meat Loaf has been announced. Bat Out of Hell is set to open at the Dominion Theatre in April, and the show’s leads from the original run at the London Coliseum – Andrew Polec and Christina Bennington – will return in the musical’s central roles of Strat and Raven. The musical is set in the dystopian world of Obsidian, where Raven’s father Falco rules supreme. Strat, the leader of The Lost, a group who are forever young,  falls for Raven, but they face struggles to be together.

It has been announced that the Jim Steinman musical Bat Out of Hell will return to London at the Dominion Theatre from April. The musical had its world premiere at the London Coliseum in June 2017, after a run of previews in Manchester, and it was announced during the show's final performance of the original London run that the musical would return to London at some point of the next year. The Dominion Theatre has now been confirmed as the venue for the Bat Out of Hell's return, which will begin its run from 2nd April 2018. Tickets go on sale on Monday 4th December.

It has been announced that Bat Out of Hell will return to London following the show’s last performance at the London Coliseum. At the curtain call of the final show, it was announced the show would be returning to London next year. A venue has not been announced. The musical previewed at the Manchester Opera House in March before transferring to the Coliseum for its world premiere and officially opening in June. The musical features Jim Steinman’s songs from Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell albums, as well as a book by Steinman.

It's easy to be cynical about jukebox musicals. For the past two decades modern musical theatre in both the UK and USA has been dominated by shows that mine the work of pop music artists and aim to tell the story of the singer or group or use the material to tell a more fragmented story that utilises their most popular billboard titles.