Back to the Future, arriving on Broadway after an Olivier-winning London debut, delivers a glossy but hollow show with a mostly forgettable score. The show’s biggest star is the time-traveling DeLorean, which zips suddenly onstage and then, coupled with Finn Ross’s video projections and Chris Fisher’s illusions, appears to race across the stage and along small-town streets at engine-revving speeds. In the end, Marty (Casey Likes, mostly slack-jawed) and Doc Brown (Roger Bart, ratcheting up the eccentricity) are just no match for the technical wizardry on display all around them. And you won’t exit the theater humming the purr of a DeLorean engine.
Read my full review in the October/November issue of Musicals magazine.
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