Films long have been source material for Broadway musicals. So why not Back to the Future, the 1985 time-traveling comedy that earned hundreds of millions at the box office and turned TV star Michael J. Fox into movie icon Marty McFly?
To adapt the story for the musical stage, the film鈥檚 director, Robert Zemeckis, and his co-writer, Bob Gale, enlisted Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard to compose 17 songs. Silvestri has written music for most of Zemeckis鈥� movies, including Back to the Future and its sequels. Ballard is known for his collaborations with Wilson Phillips and Alanis Morissette, whose album Jagged Little Pill inspired a jukebox musical.
The score also features 鈥淓arth Angel鈥� and 鈥淛ohnny B. Goode,鈥� used in the original film to establish the period to which Marty is accidentally transported in Doc Brown鈥檚 souped-up DeLorean.
Back to the Future: The Musical premiered in Manchester, England, in 2020 before moving to the West End and eventually Broadway. It received , lauded mostly for the stage magic employed in animating a DeLorean facsimile. is presenting a two-week run as part of the show鈥檚 first .
Details
March 18-30 at the Music Hall at Fair Park, 909 First Ave. $23.75 to $160.
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