Olivier Award Winning musical BACK TO THE FUTURE is currently wowing audiences at London’s Adelphi Theatre.

Adapting the iconic story BACK TO THE FUTURE for the stage are the movie’s creators Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis. As well as original music by multi-Grammy Award winners Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard, the show features timeless songs from the movie including The Power of Love, Johnny B Goode, and Back in Time.

Directed by Tony Award winner John Rando, the arrival of this plutonium-powered production means one thing’s for sure: musical theatre will never be the same again!


What is Back to the Future The Musical about?
Based on one of the most beloved science-fiction movies of the 80’s, Back to the Future The Musical tells the time traveling tale of Marty McFly.

He’s a regular teenager living in small town America. Skateboards. Rock’n’Roll. High school sweethearts.

Slightly more unusual is that his best friend is eccentric scientist, Doctor Emmet Brown.

When Doc Brown invents a time machine inside a modified DeLorean, Marty’s world gets turned upside down. After accidentally changing the course of history, Marty has to to fix the present, escape the past and send himself… back to the future!

The success of the Back to the Future films made stars Michael J Fox (Marty McFly) and Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown) into household names. Now with their full support, the Academy Award-winning movie comes to the stage at the Adelphi Theatre for the first time.

Flux capacitors at maximum… Book your tickets now!

Adelphi Theatre

Back to the Future The Musical

The Adelphi Theatre is co-owned with the Nederlander Group. 

Throughout its fascinating 200-year history, the theatre’s gorgeous art deco interiors have hosted Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, Phantom-sequel Love Never Dies, the record-breaking One Man Two Guvnors, gloriously glam-drag Kinky Boots, and Sara Bareilles‘ hit Broadway musical Waitress. Currently, the Adelphi is home to the stage adaptation of the classic Hollywood film Back To The Future – winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Musical.

The original theatre, the Sans Pareil (‘Without Compare’, for you non-French speakers) was launched by businessman John Scott in 1806, primarily so he could show off the talents of his daughter. 

Luckily, writer and pianist Jane Scott actually had the skills to show off and proved to be a massive success over the next 14 years. 

She not only wrote and appeared in more than 50 pieces ranging from farces, melodramas, comic operas and pantomimes, she also changed the face of British theatre forever by putting on works that appealed to all classes, instead of just catering to the privileged few. 

Jane finally retired in 1819 at which point her father sold the theatre for a very healthy profit.

The next owners, Jones and Rodwell, changed the theatre’s name to The Adelphi and swiftly turned it into the place to be. 

They understood that nothing puts bums on seats like a spot of controversy. 

Their production of Pierce Egan’s Tom and Jerry; or Life in London (described as the Beggar’s Opera of its day) caused outrage and complaints from angry Methodists, who objected to its louche characters and bawdy exploits.

Naturally, audiences queued round the block.

The Adelphi has changed hands – and name – many times since Jones and Rodwell sold the theatre in 1825, but its reputation has endured. 

Terry and Frederick Yates found a smash-hit success with one of their first major productions, The Pilot, which broke Tom and Jerry’s record by playing a whopping 200 times.

Its current co-owner, Andrew Lloyd Webber (you may have heard of him) bought the Adelphi in 1993 and gave it another major facelift ahead of the world premiere of his musical Sunset Boulevard, starring Patti Lupone. 

It was the first of several major successes of his at the theatre, with the legendary stage later seeing revivals of Evita (2006) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2007), as well as the world premiere of Love Never Dies in 2010.

But Lloyd Webber’s musicals weren’t the only ones to chime with audiences. 

The Olivier Award-winning Chicago opened in November 1997 at the Adelphi and became the longest-running production in the theatre’s history – as well as the longest running American musical on the West End – finally transferring to the Cambridge Theatre in 2006. 
That’s quite an achievement, and surely no small thanks to a long list of celebrity castings including Brooke Shields, Alison Moyet and, of course, iconic TV superstar David Hasselhoff.


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