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Back to the Future: The Musical set for 2025 Sydney premiere

Based on the 1985 film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J Fox, the Olivier Award-winning musical opens in Sydney in September.

25 Nov 2024 16:32

Richard Watts

'Back to the Future: The Musical', original Broadway cast. A young man leaps into the air while playing an electric guitar, accompanied by a blaze of sparks.

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‘Back to the Future: The Musical’, original Broadway cast. Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman.

Back to the Future: The Musical, which won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 2022, is to have its Australian premiere at the Sydney Lyric Theatre in September.

The production, based on the family-friendly science fiction film Back to the Future (which became the year’s highest-grossing film worldwide following its 1985 release) features a book by Bob Gale, who co-wrote the original film with director Robert Zemeckis.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts