ATLANTA, Ga. - The Broadway hit "Back to the Future: The Musical" comes roaring into Atlanta’s Fox Theatre this week — and Bob Gale wants to make you a promise.

"I’ve had many people come up to me and say, ‘I was afraid to see this, because I was afraid it was going to somehow mess up my memories [from] childhood,’" he says. "That’s not going to happen. That’s not going to happen."

And Bob Gale would know. Gale co-wrote the original 1985 blockbuster "Back to the Future" with director Robert Zemeckis, and then penned the film’s two successful sequels himself. Decades later, he returned to the property to craft the book for the stage musical adaptation, which won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical in London in 2022 and opened on Broadway the following year.

"We were presented the

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