Creating Back to the Future: The Musical

The official behind-the-scenes companion to the stage musical adaptation of Back to the Future; includes the complete lyrics to all original songs!

This essential companion to the stage show will bring back fond memories for those who’ve seen it and prepare new fans who haven’t for the greatest musical of all time!

Welcome to Hill Valley! Creating Back to the Future The Musical offers fans of the film franchise and lovers of musical theater an engrossing and entertaining look at the birth of a new theatrical classic that adapts the timeless film for the stage.

With unprecedented access to cast and crew, author Michael Klastorin (Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History) shares exclusive, in-depth interviews and previously unpublished photography. His account reveals and details the years-long process, creative ingenuity, and technical innovation that went into the show’s Manchester tryout and West End premiere.

Premiering at the Manchester Opera House in February 2020 to rave reviews—including a notice from the Guardian that the show set “a new standard of spectacle”—Back to the Future The Musical opened at the historic Adelphi Theatre on August 25, 2021, to universal acclaim and blockbuster ticket sales, winning Olivier, WhatsOnStage, and Broadway World awards. Equal success followed when it opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on August 3, 2023, and North American and international tours are planned.

Featuring music and lyrics by multi–Grammy Award winners Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard and a book by Bob Gale, adapted from the original screenplay by Gale and Robert Zemeckis, and directed by Tony Award–winner John Rando, both the Manchester premiere and the West End debut introduced Tony Award–winner Roger Bart as Doc Brown and Olly Dobson as Marty McFly.

Foreword by Bob Gale, writer of the Back to the Future trilogy * Introduction by Roger Bart, Doc Brown of Back to the Future the Musical * Afterword by Robert Zemeckis, director of the Back to the Future trilogy

Michael Klastorin is a production publicist who has worked on more than 50 films—and is considered the official historian of Back to the Future. He spent every shooting day on the sets of Back to the Future Part II and III. He is the author of Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History and Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Ultimate Visual History. Klastorin lives in Los Angeles.