Back to the Future musical (Broadway touring) at The Music Hall, Kansas City MO (2025-04-01 through 04-06)
Wednesday, April 2: 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 3: 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 4: 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 5: 2 p.m.
Saturday, April 5: 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 6: 1 p.m.
Sunday, April 6: 6:30 p.m.
April 15 – 20 Tuls, OK Tulsa Performing Arts Center
April 29 – May 4 Tampa FL Carol Morsani Hall
May 6 – 11 Greensboro, NC Tanger Center
May 13 – 18 Greenville, SC Peace Center
May 20 – 25 Durham, NC DPAC
May 27 – June 1 Knoxville, TN Tennessee Theatre
June 4 – 8 Hartford, CT The Bushnell
June 10 – 15 Providence, RI Performing Arts Center
June 17 – 22 Rochester, NY West Herr Auditorium
June 24 – 29 Buffalo, NY Shea's Performing Arts Center
July 1 – 6 Pittsburgh, PA Benedum Center
July 8 – 20 Boston, MA Citizens Opera House
July 23 – August 31 Toronto, ON Ed Mirvish Theatre
September 9 – 21 Cincinnati, OH Aronoff Center
September 23 – 28 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre
October 14 – 19 Sioux Falls, SD Washington Pavilion
October 28 – November 9 Detroit, MI Opera House
December 9 – 14 New Orleans, LA Saenger Theatre
January 13 – 18, 2026 East Lansing, MI Wharton Ctr
January 20 – 25, Richmond, VA Altria Theatre
February 3 – 15 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Broward Center
February 24 – March 1 Baltimore, MD The Hippodrome
March 3 – 8 Memphis, TN Orpheum Theatre
March 17 – 22 Nashville, TN Tenn. Performing Arts Ctr.
March 24 – 29 Ft. Worth, TX Bass Performance Hall
March 31 – April 5 Houston, TX Hobby Center
April 14 – 19 Tucson, AZ Centennial Hall
May 12 – 24 Sacramento, CA SAFE Credit Union PAC
June 2 – 7 San Jose, CA San Jose Center
June 9 – 14 Salt Lake City, UT Eccles Theatre
“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”
Back to the Future has returned and this time, it’s live on stage!
Based on the classic 1980’s movie franchise, teenager and aspiring rock guitarist Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by his neighbor, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history.
With a tale most are familiar with via the films starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, they have to race against time to correct the present, align the past, and not interrupt the delicate time space continuum.
The musical version was a decade or so in development, with movie producer and writer (and Batman and Spider-Man: Brand New Day comic book writer) Bob Gale on board writing the musical’s book. Music heavyweights- the Emmy and Grammy Award-winning composer Alan Silvestri and six-time Grammy winner Glen Ballard (co-wrote/produced Alanis’ Jagged Little Pill album) were recruited to create new music and lyrics, and of course, to also include those classic Huey Lewis (and one from Chuck Berry) hits that are deeply associated with the franchise.
The production launched in Manchester UK, then to London’s West End before making its way to Broadway in 2023 and ending its run there, in January of this year. Along the way, it picked up an Olivier Award for Best New Musical and a couple of Tony nominations.
This first touring production is directed by Tony winner John Rando, who manged to reunite his entire London creative team. This was critical for a musical like this, as the marriage of set design, sound, video, digital illusions and more, need to come together seamlessly.
The result is one of the most complex stagings we’ve seen in a touring production, all of which greatly added to its entertainment value.
We’ll assume most know the story from the first film, and this stage version stays very accurate to it, complete with all the important scenes. Many of the players slightly echo their better-known film counterparts with some subtle nuances, such as a lilt in their voice or a quick mannerism.
Lucas Hallauer takes on the lead role of Marty, and while not having the most soaring Broadway voice, is compelling in the role, and is as or more manically active, as Fox was in the original film.
We could listen to Cartreze Tucker, who plays Mayor Wilson, sing all night, as he was vocally impressive at every turn he received, Ethan Rogers plays the bully Biff Tanner perfectly, and close your eyes and listen to Zan Berube as Marty’s mom Lorraine, and you’ll think it’s a young Lea Thompson up there.
Olathe’s own Fisher Lane Stewart received extra applause with his entrance, moonwalking with a sack of burgers and fries, no less. The lanky Mike Bindeman takes on the role of Marty’s dad George with a cartoon-ish absurdity that resembles an ‘In Living Color’-era Jim Carrey, and Don Stephenson as Doc Brown truly makes the role his own – not trying to mimic Christopher Lloyd (and looks more like Steve Coogan) and plays things with the right balance of brilliance, bewilderment, and bombast.
The show starts with a bang, with coordinates set to ‘land the show’ right in downtown Kansas City and ends with the thrilling sfx-filled scene of the Dolorean racing through Hill Valley, CA streets to leap forward thirty years ahead. An end clap- and sing-along to the Huey Lewis soundtrack hits sends everyone out the door with a smile on their face.
“I finally invented something that works!” says Doc Brown when he finds out about the success of his flux capacitor invention and Back to the Future: The Musical ‘works’ too- it’s a fun evening out that puts a fresh take on a modern film classic.
Back to the Future plays in Kansas City at The Music Hall through Sunday, April 6 with tickets available here: Back to the Future The Musical (Touring) Tickets | Event Dates & Schedule | Ticketmaster
(Tour and production photography provided by McLeod9 Creative, Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman. / Click on any image to enlarge and see in full)
