BAT BOY Kerry Butler x 2 (2025/2001) "Three Bedroom House"

"Three Bedroom House" seems to be everyone's favorite song from Laurence O'Keefe's score for "Bat Boy." Here it is in two versions, both featuring Kerry Butler. First is from the 2025 City Center revival, with Kerry Butler as mother Meredith and Gabi Carrubba as daughter Shelley. At 4:22 , you can revisit a previously posted video of "Three Bedroom House" as seen in the original 2001 off-Broadway production. Back then, Kerry Butler was daughter Shelley and Kaitlin Hopkins was mother Meredith. To pick up all the lyrics, you may wish to watch Butler and Carrubba performing the number in rehearsal at    • Kerry Butler and the Cast of Bat Boy Perfo...  . The lyrics are also posted below:

[MEREDITH]
Out! Out! Out! Time to get out!
[SHELLEY]
Out?
[MEREDITH]
Out! Gotta just rip out this page
Bend the bars of this cage and run free!
[SHELLEY]
Free?
[MEREDITH]
Free! No one but Edgar, you and me!
Gotta go find him and move on-
[BOTH]
And be gone before the dawn!
[MEREDITH]
Gotta get checkbooks
[SHELLEY]
Checkbooks
[MEREDITH]
Car keys
[SHELLEY]
Car keys
[MEREDITH]
Passports
[SHELLEY]
Passports
[MEREDITH]
Then goodbye!
[SHELLEY]
Toothbrush
[MEREDITH]
Toothbrush
[SHELLEY]
Blankets
[MEREDITH]
Blankets
[SHELLEY]
Daddy?
[MEREDITH]
No
[SHELLEY]
Why?
[MEREDITH]
Shelley, listen to me
What do you do when you blow out a tire?
[SHELLEY]
Tire?
[MEREDITH]
Trash it! Some holes you'll never patch
[SHELLEY]
You'll never patch?
[MEREDITH]
And who do you save when your house is on fire?
[SHELLEY]
Fire?
[MEREDITH]
Don't bring the guy who lit the match!
[SHELLEY]
Who lit the match!
[MEREDITH]
So we'll get a post office box
And we're gonna change all the locks
And we're gonna stay with my cousins a while
Then we'll get a three bedroom house
With a white picket fence and a gun and a lawyer
So smile!
Gonna get a homeowner's loan;
[SHELLEY]
Could...
[MEREDITH]
Gonna get an unlisted phone;
[SHELLEY]
Good!
[MEREDITH]
Gonna get away from this town gone insane!
[SHELLEY]
Kinda thought they would...
[MEREDITH]
Then we'll get a three bedroom house
[SHELLEY]
A beautiful three bedroom house
[MEREDITH]
Affordable
[BOTH]
Three bedroom house
[MEREDITH]
With a great big pit bull on a chain!
[SHELLEY]
Okay... Okay, Okay, Okay, Okay
Right! Right! Right! Mother, you're right!
[MEREDITH]
Right?
[SHELLEY]
Right! Still kinda sad that my dad lost what marbles he had
But we're free!
[MEREDITH]
Free!
[SHELLEY]
Free! I'll get a brand new fake I.D!
[MEREDITH]
And if we lack for anything I can hock this stupid ring!
[BOTH]
And we'll get a post office box
And we'll get a front gate that locks!
[SHELLEY]
And we'll get away from those ignorant pigs!
[BOTH]
And we'll get a three bedroom house!
[MEREDITH]
A livable three bedroom house
[SHELLEY]
A lovable
[BOTH]
Three bedroom house
[MEREDITH]
And some plastic surgery and wigs!
[SHELLEY]
For who?
[MEREDITH]
For all of us...
[SHELLEY]
Right...
[BOTH]
And Edgar will soon have
[SHELLEY]
A garden to walk in
[MEREDITH]
His own driver's license
[SHELLEY]
A car- NO! A van!
[BOTH]
And Edgar will soon have
[SHELLEY]
A ballroom to dance in
[MEREDITH]
A good dental plan!
[SHELLEY]
Cause Edgar will soon have a home...
[MEREDITH]
Yes, Edgar will soon have a home...
[BOTH]
A heck of a home!
And we'll get a post office box
And we'll get a front gate that locks
[MEREDITH]
And big electrified fence all around!
[SHELLEY]
Whoa!
[MEREDITH]
And we'll get a three bedroom house-
[SHELLEY]
Or even a two bedroom house-
[MEREDITH]
No, honey a three bedroom house-
[SHELLEY, spoken]
Mom... do you think Edgar would marry me?
[MEREDITH]
No, honey a three bedroom house
A three bedroom house
In a concrete shelter ten feet underground!
[SHELLEY, spoken]
Mom! I want to marry Edgar! I'm in love with him!
[MEREDITH, spoken]
No, Shelley
[SHELLEY, spoken]
What?
[MEREDITH, spoken]
You're not in love with Edgar!
[SHELLEY, spoken]
Yes, I am, Mom. I love him so much. And I want to be with him forever-
[MEREDITH, spoken]
No, Shelley! It's hideous! It's not right!
[SHELLEY, spoken]
You're just like the rest of them!
[MEREDITH, spoken]
You don't understand- Shelley! NO!
[MEREDITH]
What about the three bedroom house?
The three bedroom house!
Who do you save when your house is on fire...
Your house Is On Fire...
Your house Is On Fire!