‘Back to the Future: The Musical’ Broadway review

[Kamaji]

‘Back to the Future: The Musical’ Broadway review: Watch the movie instead

By Johnny Oleksinski
August 3, 2023

Delightful and delicious? No — it’s DeLorean.

“Back To The Future: The Musical,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, doesn’t have much going for it in the way of tuneful songs, show-stopping dances or enthralling storytelling. But it does have a star vehicle.

Its very own Wells Fargo Time Machine. A Chitty Chitty Flux Capacitor. A Greased (Struck By) Lightnin’.

Onstage, the famous DeLorean drives, spins, flies and turns upside down with the actors inside it. The hotrod is the biggest special effect the Winter Garden Theatre has seen since “Rocky the Musical” plopped a boxing ring in the middle of the orchestra nearly 10 years ago.

But Huey Lewis did not sing “Power of Car,” he sang “Power of Love.” And heart is completely absent from director John Rando’s shiny and serviceable staging of the beloved 1985 science-fiction movie.

Coursing emotion, teen angst and can-do scrappiness are what set director Robert Zemeckis’ original film apart from other entries in the time-travel genre. “Back To The Future” wasn’t HG Wells or “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.” And it’s hardly remembered as a flashy spectacle, either. The flick was a fun ‘80s adventure romp about a guitarist who winds up in 1955 Main Street, America.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/03/back-to-the-future-the-musical-review-watch-the-movie-instead/

[Kamaji]

They made a stage musical out of "Back to the Future"?!?  Broadway really is devoid of creativity these days.

[deb]

Perhaps they should stick to Rogers and Hammerstein or Learner and Loewe.

[Kamaji]

Perhaps they should stick to Rogers and Hammerstein or Learner and Loewe.

[mountaineer]

They made a stage musical out of "Back to the Future"?!?  Broadway really is devoid of creativity these days.

I'm not much of a moviegoer, but they're the same way. It seems both Broadway and Hollywood are doing only remakes or stage/film versions of comic books these days. Very little original drama or comedy.