Back to the Future: the Musical is leaving New York at 88 miles per hour. The Broadway production, which opened at the Winter Garden Theatre August 3, 2023, will play its final performance January 5, 2025, after playing more than 500 performances.
The closing makes the show the second musical to announce a closing date on "Black Sunday," the first Sunday after New Year's that tends to kick off steep drop in tourism throughout New York City. Suffs will also close January 5.
Based on the 1985 Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment film about teenager Marty McFly—who is accidentally transported back to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by Dr. Emmett Brown—the musical has a book by Bob Gale, and new music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard, with additional songs from the film, including “The Power of Love” and “Johnny B. Goode.”
As previously announced, a German staging of the musical will open in the 2025–2026 season, with details to be announced. The show is also headed to Royal Caribbean's new cruise ship Star of the Seas in a 100-minute condensed iteration. That staging will debut along with the ship when it disembarks from Port Canaveral in Orlando, Florida, in August 2025.
Said producer Colin Ingram, “With nearly 40 percent of our audience never having seen a production on Broadway before, I’m proud that at a time when theatre is viewed by so many as being inaccessible that this show was able to bring in a new audience, and it is my hope that this legacy endures and these people return to see another Broadway show in the future. We are having the same success across the North American tour where the show has already been seen by half a million people—many also new to the theatre. We look forward to welcoming fans to the theatre with four new productions opening next year including Japan and Germany as they join our two existing productions in London’s West End (now in its 4th year) and the North American tour.”
The Broadway cast currently features Tony winner and 2024 Tony nominee Roger Bart as Doc Brown, Casey Likes as Marty McFly, Liana Hunt as Lorraine Baines, Jelani Remy as Goldie Wilson/Marvin Berry, Evan Alexander Smith as George McFly, David Josefsberg as Strickland, and Nathaniel Hackmann as Biff Tannen.
Tony winner John Rando directs. The production also features set and costume design by Tim Hatley, lighting design by Tim Lutkin and Hugh Vanstone, sound design by Gareth Owen, video design by Finn Ross, choreography by Chris Bailey, musical supervision and arrangements by Nick Finlow, illusions by Chris Fisher, orchestrations by Ethan Popp and Bryan Crook, dance arrangements by David Chase, and casting by Tara Rubin. Bespoke Theatricals serves as general manager.
Back to the Future: The Musical made its world premiere at the Manchester Opera House in March 2020. The West End production opened in London September 13, 2021, at the Adelphi Theatre (where it continues) and subsequently won the Best New Musical Olivier Award. The Broadway production was nominated for two Tony awards, taking home none.
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Company of Back to the Future celebrating 500 performances on Broadway
Company of Back to the Future celebrating 500 performances on Broadway
Company of Back to the Future celebrating 500 performances on Broadway
Company of Back to the Future celebrating 500 performances on Broadway
Company of Back to the Future celebrating 500 performances on Broadway
