A musical based on Back to the Future is set to open in the West End next year, the 30th anniversary of the original film's release. The director and the writer of the 1985 movie and its two sequels, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, are behind the project alongside director Jamie Lloyd and producer Colin Ingram.
Jamie Lloyd has also been helping to shape the show and will direct two workshops: the first in Los Angeles in July, for producers at Universal Stage Productions and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment; and a second in London in August, for Ingram’s London colleagues and theatre owners.
Speaking to The Daily Mail, Bob Gale said: "We met Brits, and we met Americans, but we decided on the Brits - Jamie and Colin - because they're seeing our material through slightly different cultural eyes. "
The movie opens with The Power Of Love by Huey Lewis And The News. That song will be in the show, along with Johnny B. Goode, Earth Angel and Mr Sandman. Alan Silvestri, who wrote the original score for the films, will collaborate with Glen Ballard on some original songs. Ingram said the show will stick to the same time periods as the first film. ‘You can’t mess with history,’ he joked to the Mail.
"Now all we have to find is a young man to play Marty" Ingram told the Mail, "He needs to be a guitarist, a singer, an actor — and good looking. We’ll provide the time machine."
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