David Josefsberg and Lucas Hallauer in the First National Touring Company of BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL | Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade, 2025

Back to the Future: The Musical, presented by Mirvish, is exactly what it promises to be. The book, an adaptation by one of the film’s screenwriters, Bob Gale (who wrote it with director Robert Zemeckis), is impressively faithful to that classic. In 1985, aspiring rockstar teen Marty McFly (Lucas Hallauer), dissatisfied with his home life—his mother’s a drunk and his father’s a pushover—uses his eccentric genius friend Doc Brown’s (David Josefsberg) DeLorean time machine to go back to 1955 where he tries to set his parents up and find his way back to a better future. Continue Reading