Review

Review: Back to the Future – The Musical

Sarah Lambie reviews Back to the Future: The Musical, performed at the Adelphi Theatre.
 A performance of Back to the Future: The Musical
A performance of Back to the Future: The Musical - SEAN EBSWORTH BARNES

A blast to-and-from the past, which delights devotees but lacks a tune you can hum

I have been a theatre-lover from a very young age, which has been a gift in many respects but has come somewhat at the expense of the film education that most young people undergo by default. Such it was that it took until the summer of 2021 for me to watch the classic movie Back to the Future (and its two sequels) – but I was able to do so with all the childlike enthusiasm of the 8-year-old I should have been.

I was, therefore, an unusually recently-informed attendee when Back to the Future: The Musical opened at the Adelphi Theatre on London's Strand: watching with the devotion of a new convert.

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