The backing band, The Neverland Express, includes musicians who actually played with Meat Loaf: guitarist Paul Crook, drummer John Miceli and guitarist Randy Flowers.

The man entrusted with recreating vocal workouts as “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” and “I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” and other songs with really long titles is “American Idol” season 13 champion Caleb Johnson. So a live tribute to their work should be especially meaningful here.

The main creative forces behind the classic rock album “Bat Out of Hell,” songwriter Jim Steinman and singer Meat Loaf, both lived for years in Connecticut. Wall Street Theater, 71 Wall St., Norwalk Steven Spielberg’s timeless classic about a kid who finds room on his bicycle for an alien gets the live symphonic treatment with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra playing John Williams’ score as the film is projected in the opulent Waterbury Palace. $17-$29 discounts for students, seniors and military. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. The community-based Little Theatre of Manchester is tackling the popular stage adaptation (by Simon Stephens) of Mark Haddon’s novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” It has an unconventional teen protagonist tackling a Sherlock Holmes-type mystery.

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