You’ve heard the term, “Hollywood on this ... Hollywood on that ... ,” as in “Hollywood on the Hudson” (a book about the history of film-making in New York City and New Jersey), “Hollywood on the Potomac” (a web site; also, a book about the Hollywood-Washington, D.C., connection), “Hollywood on the Bayou (a web site about film-making in Louisiana) and “Hollywood on The Tiber” (a New York Times article about Rome’s Cinecittà film studio).

Add to the list, “Hollywood on the West End Theatre District,” courtesy of an invitation-only Aug. 11 Lehigh Valley premiere at Civic Theatre of Allentown for Disney’s family film theatrical release, “Pete’s Dragon,” starring Oakes Fegley of Allentown in the title role of Pete.

The event attracted family, friends, Civic patrons and the media to greet Oakes Fegley, who began his acting career on the very main stage of 19th Street Theatre where “Pete’s Dragon” drew ecstatic responses every time the 11-year old son of Michael and Mercedes Tonne Fegley appeared on-screen.

To paraphrase the 1933 movie musical, “42nd Street,” about Peggy Sawyer, another, admittedly fictional, star, from Allentown, Oakes Fegley went out to New Zealand “a youngster,” but came “back a star.”

In a surrealistic scene right out of the 1985 film, “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” where Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels) steps right off the movie screen, there was Oakes Fegley standing on the Civic stage being introduced to the audience by Civic Managing Director John Hedges in front of the on-screen image of the “Pete’s Dragon” logo with an image of Oakes nestled in Elliot the Dragon’s green hairy tail.

An estimated 400 were in attendance, according to Civic Marketing Director Alan Raisman.

“It’s more of a celebration that we [Civic Theatre] wanted to have for the family of the Fegleys and the supporters of the theater,” Hedges said to a reporter for The Press outside the theater before the screening while attendees took photos of Oakes Fegley in front of the “Pete’s Dragon” poster and Civic Theatre’s new logo and requested selfies with the young tuxedo-clad star. He was fresh from the “Pete’s Dragon” Aug. 8 red-carpet Hollywood premiere at The El Capitan Theatre that he attended with his parents; sister, August, 16, and brother Winslow, 7. The movie opened Aug 12 to an 85 percent positive critics’ rating and 78 percent positive audience rating on the aggregate movie review web site, Rotten Tomatoes.

As if to confirm Oakes’ superstar status, he’s already an action figure as Pete, the character he plays in “Pete’s Dragon,” as is Elliot the Dragon, which are available at toy stores and toy departments, and were already in the hands of Lehigh Valley actor David Smith, as well as T.J. Brokenshire of Whitehall, nephew of Lehigh Valley actor Troy G. Brokenshire, who all attended the Civic screening.

After the PG-rated “Pete’s Dragon” was shown at Civic, Oakes Fegley walked along the theater’s front rows, taking his bows to audience cheers and a standing ovation. The screening had the feel of a Saturday afternoon matinée, with lots of youngsters in the audience and visceral and audible reactions to the movie.

The “Critics’ Consensus,” according to Rotten Tomatoes, is that ”’Pete’s Dragon’ continues Disney’s current live-action winning streak with an update that gives the original a visual overhaul without overwhelming its sweet, soulful charm.”

Following the Civic screening, those attending agreed, albeit with personal twists and anecdotes of their own.

“It gives you great community pride to have someone who started in the local theater and made it to the big screen,” said Aliette Abo, Civic Board of Directors member.

“I really liked it,” said Odin Potemski, a classmate of Oakes Fegley. “At first I didn’t believe him when he said he was going to New Zealand to make a film.”

Oakes Fegley was in New Zealand for the first four months of 2015 where the $65-million budgeted “Pete’s Dragon” was filmed.

“It’s going to go down as a Disney classic,” said Michael Gontkosky of Whitehall, co-host of “The Movie Show.” “You could compare it to ‘E.T.’”

Oakes Fegley said it was especially great to see “Pete’s Dragon” at Civic with classmates, friends and family in the theater where he had his first acting role.

His father, Michael Fegley, noted the quality of choices by the movie’s screenplay writer-director David Lowery: “Where else are you going to have an action film with a Leonard Cohen song [‘So Long, Marianne’] and the Lumineers [‘Nobody Knows’] on the soundtrack?”

His mother, Mercedes Tonne Fegley, in a gorgeous floral-print dress she purchased in Wellington, New Zealand, said, “It’s so nice to share this with family and friends. We’re just so glad to be back here at Civic.”

“Very subtle, brilliant,” George B. Miller, Producing Director with Kate Scuffle of the Lehigh Valley’s Selkie Theatre, said of Oakes Fegley’s acting in “Pete’s Dragon.” “He is superb. I think big things are in store for him. Isn’t this how Leonardo DiCaprio started out? I think he is the next Leonardo DiCaprio. There is not a nicer family that this could happen to than the Fegleys.”