I got Wicked for Christmas. The novel, that is. I've been meaning to read it for a while, and I've never seen the show, but I'd heard so much about it that it has to be pretty amazing. I haven't seen Young Frankenstein either, so my opinion's useless. :)

When you mention bats, I always think about Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. My family went there when I was a kid. The caverns are very cool, and at dusk people gather at the mouth of the caverns and watch thousands of bats fly off into the night sky.