He’s in Charlotte this week to see the local debut of “Blue,” which premiered in Washington, D.C., in 2000 with Phylicia Rashad. Then he’ll make the second half of a round-trip flight to finish in Brazil; as he says, “that shows how grateful I a

Bat Boy: The Musical is back at Actor’s Theatre with many of the same faces that launched the company’s Stonewall Street facility five years ago — and Billy Ensley is once again in the director’s chair.

The music is catchy, the story is outlandish, and the singing actors appear as entertained as the audience. But the most compelling reason to see “Bat Boy: The Musical” is the bat.

It’s rare to experience a show as a comedy, horror, and musical. But this one works all three ways, satirizing a tabloid story of a wild child found in a West Virginia cave.