Back to the Future: The Musical is a 2020 stage musical with music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard and a book by Bob Gale. It is adapted from the original screenplay of the 1985 film of the same name by Robert Zemeckis and Gale. The show features original music, as well as songs originally featured in the film, such as "The Power of Love" and "Johnny B. Goode". The musical originally was slated to make its world première in London's West End in 2015, the year to which the trilogy's characters traveled in Part II. However, original director Jamie Lloyd left the production in August 2014 citing "creative differences" with Zemeckis, resulting in a delay in the production's release date. The show received its world premiere at Manchester Opera House in February 2020, ahead of an expected West End transfer. The show starred Olly Dobson playing the role of protagonist Marty McFly, originally portrayed by Michael J. Fox. Tony Award winner Roger Bart played Emmett "Doc" Brown, originally portrayed by Christopher Lloyd. The musical will come to Broadway in 2023, with Bart reprising his role, along with original London cast member Hugh Coles reprising the role of George McFly. The musical has received positive reviews, and received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 2022. Background During a question and answer session at a 2004 DeLorean convention, Bob Gale said that he was interested to adapt Back to the Future for Broadway theatre. In February 2012, a musical adaption of the 1985 film Back to the Future began development and had been explored for around eight years prior. Workshops for the musical took place in 2014, in July in London and the following month in Los Angeles, with the intention to open the show in the West End in 2015, in time for the 30th anniversary of the film. The movie achieved success at the box office, taking over $380 million. It follows Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time in a DeLorean to 1955. He meets his future parents in high school and accidentally attracts his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by causing his parents-to-be to fall in love, and with the help of scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd), he must find a way to return to 1985. Back to the Future marked