It flies over the audience and flips over — but that's not all that it does.
Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman/Back to the FutureCasey Likes is Marty McFly in the stage adaptation of"Back to the Future."Back to the Future: The Musical
In the 1985 movie and the new musical adaptation, the car is a time machine and the driver of the story, bringing teenager Marty McFly from his own 1985 to his parents' 1955. Ross and the rest of the team of designers knew that it was the car that would dazzle the audience. It had to look like a DeLorean, it had to have cool effects, and it needed to look like it was driving like a real car on real roads.
"Inside it all is a mechanical, steel, aluminum madness of gizmos and electronics and what we call turtles to make it spin," said Hatley."Motors, lights, effects, smoke machines, speakers. It's crammed with that. You canThe car itself only moves slightly, while turning around. So to create the illusion of speed, Finn Ross installed an LED wall at the back of the stage and a scrim in the front, with the car sandwiched in between.
And it leaves fiery skid marks. Early in the show, the DeLorean suddenly seems to appear out of nowhere. That trick was figured out by illusions designer Chris Fisher.
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