Yale Kids Make “Darq Knight” Musical

by Dan Haley | October 21, 2008 at 10:13 am

IvyGate doesn't usually cover individual student theater productions. This is mostly because we aim to report things you want to read. But when a tipster told us Yale was running a Batman musical, we were intrigued. A musical based on "The Dark Knight," set to U2 and various 80s power ballads? We couldn't resist.

"Darq Knight: The Musical" was written by Marshall Pailet and James Pollack, '09, with help from Tessa Williams, '10, and Emma Barash, '11. It ran Thursday through Saturday at the Off Broadway Theater (I'm guessing this is a Yale student venue). In an email, Pollack said the show's premise is a hypothetical collaboration between Chrisopher Nolan and Bono.

The tipster describes the plot:

The overarching plot was the same as the real Dark Knight movie set to 80s music. Of course there were many flourishes such as the characters were Maggie Gyllenhaal and Katie Holmes instead of a Rachel (And Katie was dating Lord Xenu). Alfred was sexually attracted to Bruce/Batman, Bruce was a 6’7” skinny white guy, and batman was a much shorter African American guy. The three had a moment singing “With or Without You” together. And Morgan Freeman narrated the entire thing.

I hope you all understand how awesome this show must have been. After the jump, more pictures and the playbill.

Photos (above and after jump) are by Charlie Croom, '12.

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