It flies over the audience and flips over — but that's not all that it does.
Updated August 25, 2023 at 11:47 AM ET, dozens of families poured out onto Broadway. One of them, the Angelos, had traveled from Sugar Loaf, Penn. to see the show.
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.
"I have Marty sail through on the skateboard, lit through the space," Fisher explained."So, there's nothing there. We're saying there's nothing there. And then bang, bang, bang, there's the DeLorean."
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