MUSICAL THEATRE

BACK TO THE FUTURE THE MUSICAL

Sydney Lyric, until January 2026

Reviewed by JOHN SHAND

★★★★

You knew in your bones that a musical hatched from a sci-fi film would have at least one eye-bulging, jaw-dropping moment, and it didn’t disappoint. Forget Phantom ’s chandelier or Miss Saigon ’s helicopter: what the DeLorean does in Back to the Future is in a different stratosphere of wonderment. I won’t spoil it for anyone who goes, but it’s worth sitting through two-and-a-half hours of uneven show to see the car at “speed”, and then … flying!

For anyone who’s been hiding under a rock for 40 years, the story tells of Marty, an all-American student in 1985, who hooks up with Doc, a scientist who solves (most of) the problems of time travel. Marty shoots back to 1955 and

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