“...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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