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Friday, August 11, 2023

Creating Back To The Future The Musical

One of my all-time favorite movie trilogies is Back To The Future. The others are the original Star Wars Trilogy and the Indiana Jones Trilogy.

Who can forget the incredible adventures of Marty McFly and ‘Doc’ Brown as they traverse time starting with 1955, to 2015 to 1885?

Filled with adventure, danger, humor and more than its fair share of surprises the Back To The Future Trilogy still resonates with movie goers today.

Writer Michael Klastorin and Abrams Books present Creating The Back To The Future The Musical a glorious and colorful hardbound book.

Bob Gale provides an introduction and director of all three films, Robert Zemeckis, writes the afterword with a foreword by Roger Bart.

How do you translate a hit movie to the stage and make it work? This book goes into great detail on just how it was done.

First there’s adapting the script, selecting a cast and recreating the classic scenes to fit on a stage, including the Delorean!

Visual effects were a must and just like the films they are incredible and impressive.

The entire script is broken down, including the musical numbers and each member of the stellar cast is spotlighted along with the production crew, director, producer and others.

Witness the construction of the various stage pieces, costume selections and the songs, musical numbers and so much more.

It’s a blast from the past using today’s cutting edge technology, a brand new cast, clever staging and best of all the blessing of the original cast and crew from the movie.

"Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." — Romans 8:26

 

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