I've had to catch
bats in theatres... and have had the rabies shots to prove it. Last year, we had a pretty bad bat problem
in one of our spaces on campus. It's not easy to catch
bats in a 1500-seat
theatre. They would fly around and swoop the
stage during rehearsals and shows. A couple of them visited the
stage during the finale of our
pageant. That was an entertaining one. Here's a video of them swooping during a concert:
IIRC, we counted 5 or 6 in the air on that particular night. Eventually, we went up into the ceiling, climbed across a beam, and found a
cluster of somewhere between 150 and 200 of the little guys inside a spot where the roof flashing had come loose. We had a sonic bat repeller that we left on during the nights, but it didn't seem to do that much good. If you can get them into a smaller space, though, they aren't that hard to catch. We were able to drive one from the
stage into a hallway thanks to some color guard girls and their flags, and then I was pretty easily able to catch him in a sheet.
I also had one show up at my summerstock gig, unannounced - he dropped from the ceiling onto the drummer's knee. I took him outside wrapped in a paper towel. That is, at least, until he got tired of the paper towel and crawled out, and tried to nibble at my finger. I don't think he ever broke skin, but better safe than sorry - Rabies shots! Yay! /sarcasm