Half-man, half-bat, all good fun in University’s ‘Bat Boy’

With the abundance of Internet gossip, the golden age of tabloids is over. The National Enquirer hangs on with celebrity stories, while another ? the Weekly World News ? has gone online. Still, World News? most famous subject lives on in a musical opening Friday, Nov. 18, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Mitchell Theatre. ?Bat Boy: The Musical? stars the half-man, half-bat ?discovered? in a West Virginia cave in 1992, and follows a town?s attempts to civilize him.