Andrew Polec & Christina Bennington Will Star in Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of Hell—The Musical Next Year in London

It’s all coming back to us now! Bat Out of Hell—The Musical is set to premiere in the U.K. next year, playing Manchester Opera House in the spring before heading to London. According to Daily Mail, the production, based on the most influential albums of Jim Steinman’s storied collaboration with singer Meat Loaf, will star The Fantasticks' Andrew Polec as Strat and Christina Bennington as Raven.

Directed by Jay Scheib, Bat Out of Hell is a romantic adventure about rebellious youth and passionate love against the backdrop of a post-cataclysmic city. Following Strat, who has fallen in love with the daughter of the despotic Falco, this new musical is a high-octane rock‘n’roll adventure that tears through over 20 of Steinman’s songs. Classic numbers will include “I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That),” “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth,” “Dead Ringer for Love,” “It’s all Coming Back to Me Now,” “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” and “Bat Out of Hell.”

The first Bat out of Hell album is one of the best-selling of all time, with 43 million sales; it’s sequel sold more than 14 million copies worldwide. Steinman was behind the short-lived Dance of the Vampires on Broadway and collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on Whistle Down the Wind in the West End.

Watch Jeremy Jordan belt “It’s all Coming Back to Me Now,” below, just because. You’re welcome.