Bright side of life

BrightSide Theatre revives “Spamalot,” the award-winning musical by Eric Idle and John Du Prez “lovingly ripped off” from the 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” It centers around King Arthur and his Round Table knights who encounter killer rabbits, flying cows, a rude Frenchman and a bevy of showgirls in a search for the Holy Grail. Jeffrey Cass directs.

Opens at 8 p.m. Friday, June 3, at Meiley-Swallow Hall, North Central College, 31 S. Ellsworth St., Naperville. $22, $25. (630) 447-8497 or brightside theatre.com.

LOW’s ‘My Fair Lady’

Nick Sandys, Remy Bumppo artistic director and First Folio Theatre artistic associate, reprises his role as prickly phonetics professor Henry Higgins in Light Opera Works’ revival of “My Fair Lady,” the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” Marriott Theatre veteran Elizabeth Telford stars as Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower seller whom Higgins transforms into a lady in director Rudy Hogenmiller’s production.

Opens at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 4, at Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St., Evanston. $34-$98. (847) 920-5360 or lightoperaworks.com.

Griffin’s ‘Bat Boy’

The discovery of a half boy/half bat creature in a West Virginia cave changes the lives of a local veterinarian and his family in “Bat Boy: The Musical,” a comedy/horror show inspired by a tabloid story and written by composer/lyricist Laurence O’Keefe (“Legally Blonde”) and writers Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming. Scott Weinstein directs Griffen Theatre Company’s Chicago-area premiere starring Henry McGinniss in the titular role.

Previews begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 4, at The Den Theatre, 1329 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. The show opens June 12. (866) 811-4111 or griffintheatre.com .

— Barbara Vitello