Back to the Future – the Melodic audit: the famous film advances toward the West End stage

The vehicle is the undoubted star of this melodic variant of the much-adored 1985 film. It shows up in front of an audience instantly of blue light, and each time it returns, it thunders, it takes off, and consumes the roads of Tim Hatley’s staggering plans which keenly consolidate sets, backgrounds, and gadgets.

Those brilliant enhancements (counting lighting by Tim Lutkin that shoots around the Adelphi’s proscenium curve and out into the hall, deceptions by Chris Fisher, and recordings by Finn Ross) join with a lively cast to make a show that is massively great tomfoolery – while never being especially essential as a melodic.

It’s required an outrageously lengthy investment to arrive at the stage. The thought was first mooted to Robert Zemeckis and Sway Hurricane, makers and scholars of what turned into a film set of three, in 2005; it’s been in dynamic creation starting around 2010 and really came to the stage in Manchester in mid-2020 preceding Coronavirus pushed back its West End debut. Coronavirus brought on additional entanglements when Roger Bart, who is playing the creator Doc Brown, tried positive, leaving student Imprint Oxtoby in control on premiere night.

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