See it if Excellent great staging costumes dancing tech, acting, singing. Totally clever totally entertaining. Great for all. Fun happy feeling
Don't see it if You don't enjoy a big musical but this one has it all
See it if you want to see an amazing stage and great use of the theatre
Don't see it if you want a classic musical
See it if If you like a great musical great story fantastic singing acting dancing Visual and staging and the flying car was fantastic
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See it if you love Back to the Future. This play does it proud.
Don't see it if you dont like Back to theFuture and dont like big over the top special effects.
See it if you love the movie. and it is nostalgic. the tech is amazing
Don't see it if you dont like the movie and want a well written play. and not the same as a movie
See it if very cool stage design! especially that car lol
Don't see it if you are looking for a song that you can remember
See it if you like the movie and want a show with an amazing set and an extremely talented cast
Don't see it if you don't like the movie and or don't want to have a fun time at the theatre
See it if you are a fan of the movie.
Don't see it if you don't like the movie.
“...I have to admit that the car alone might be worth a ticket. It fills a deep Broadway longing for large objects performing audience flyovers — and, like the dear departed arthritic chandelier, may be doing so for the foreseeable future.”
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“What makes ’Back to the Future’ so confusing, aside from the general ineptness, is how little it seems to understand its own relationship to the material it is trying to exploit...A similar fate befalls too many shows that try to cash in on cinematic IP, and the Broadway musical, as an art form, can’t keep getting lost on these roads. If this is the future, please send it back.”
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“ ‘Back to the Future’ emerges, and continues to be regarded, as a funny, cult-classic romp. The musical adaptation... honors all these views at once and gives ‘Back to the Future’ the larger-than-life presentation it deserves.”
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“ ‘Back to the Future’ simply tries to hold up its plutonium-weight source material.”
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“The musical has been staged in lavish style...And the DeLorean, with its glowing neon trim, has been glamorized effectively...But the musical as a whole never achieves liftoff, or even the stage equivalent of 88 miles an hour. It cruises along in a low gear for almost three hours.”
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“With a cast directed to exaggerate every joke, gesture and facial expression – only the always reliable Roger Bart, who plays the eccentric genius inventor Doc Brown, has the chops and instincts to nail the over-the-topness...With a show like ’Back To The Future: The Musical,’ comparisons are, like resistance, futile. And your kids are gonna love it.”
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“Frenetically paced, relentlessly comedic and visually chaotic, “Back to the Future: The Musical” is aimed squarely at middle America...But the show still misses opportunity after opportunity to make people actually feel.”
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“...with the frequent breaking of the fourth wall and the milking of some meta moments, you wonder what exactly the show’s aiming to be: a self-aware joke for fans or a thrill ride with sincerity.”
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