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Star Wars is an American epic space-opera media franchise created by George Lucas. The franchise began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.

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Olly Dobson plays Marty Mcfly and Roger Bart , the Doc in Back to The Future : The Musical

in the mood for a new Back to The Future film as a new Tranche in any other franchise. But to do one of the creators says another Film would be Like "sell your children into Prostitution " - it is so new, it was launched as a stage musical.

although the Manchester Opera House foyer will be extended a week before the premiere of " Back to The Future : The Musical medium, picking your way through piles of props and kit, waiting, in Position in front of the opening of the exhibition.

A skateboard, and some of the Doc's science equipment lying around, and a crew member goes to the wearing of what look Like dancers in 1950s clothes. The components of the Doc ' s nuclear-powered flux capacitor are probably distributed somewhere around.

A DeLorean car is on the stage, swimming in the colored lights and Dry Ice .

"by covering their eyes," says the theatre-manager, half-jokingly, as you escorted me to a backstage-room Interviews with The Team behind The Show .

Michael J Fox starred in the Original Film trilogy

In The Room , the distant strains of the film " familiar score leak through the door, Like the futuristic whoosh Sound Effects . "This is the DeLorean flying, right now," composer Alan Silvestri notes.

on Thursday, The First performance marks the end of a 12-year journey of one of The Most popular Films , on the stage. Another journey will Start - The Show is set to go to The West End to Manchester, And Then maybe Broadway.

It is an adaptation of the original 1985 Back to The Future movie with Michael J Fox as Marty Mcfly , finds himself stuck in 1955 and is trying to ensure that his own parents to hook up.

New songs

"It is the same story of the film," says Bob Gale , who has scripted the stage, and co-author of The Films . "But there are things you can do and can not do, on the stage, in the cinema. "

So in The Show , Marty plays more music and new songs to take us deeper into the feelings of the characters and the background story. But some of the measures (has been changed, such as the skateboard chase and the armed Libyan terrorists). And, unfortunately, there is no Einstein The Dog .

Christopher Lloyd (left) handed over The Keys to the DeLorean to Roger Bart

But she could not Show may be a stage in The Future without rebuilding The Most , perhaps The Most technically challenging bit of the history of the DeLorean is a high-speed-time-trip.

"Eighty-eight miles in the hour, the Clock Tower , Lightning - oh, yeah. One Point 21 Gigawatts. All of that is intact. Absolutely," says Gale.

"How do we do it? I'm not gonna say that! Good magicians never reveal their tricks. "

in November 2018, more people said they would see a new Back to The Future film as a new installment of Harry Potter , Star Wars , Toy Story or any other major franchise.

"a Lot of people were not to be overheard," Why don't you do guys, Back to The Future part 4? Why don't you make a reboot of Back to The Future ?'" Gale says. to do

'The wrong thing'

But he and Robert Zemeckis , Director and co-screenwriter for the Three Films they had written in their contracts with Universal, no new movie could be made without their say so. Studio bosses have tried their best to persuade you.

"All the time. All the time," says Gale. "What can we do to convince you to do guys, this is?'

"We have said 'Nothing'. 'You will make a lot of money. "We have already made a lot of money. '

"you don't know that they sell their children into Prostitution . It is the wrong thing to do. We put 'the end' at the end of part Three .

Michael J Fox appeared in a Parkinson's charity event in November

"Plus-Michael J to make Fox in the Form of a Film, and no one wants to see how Marty Mcfly with Parkinson's disease, and nobody wants to see another actor, Marty Mcfly , if there is a sequel should be.

"We have already seen, Star Wars and Luke Skywalker is an old man. "He Grimaces. "The can be painful a bit, right?

"We learn from the fact that so many studios have the good on some of their franchise properties, which are too many times, and the spectators disappointed and say 'Oh my God, you ruined My Childhood . '

"We don't want to ruin everyone's childhood, and a musical was the perfect way to make The Public more Back to The Future , without messing up what has gone before. "

In the Stage Show , British actor Olly Dobson's Marty Mcfly , while Tony Award-winning American star Roger Bart , Doc Brown , complete with the 'mad scientist' hair, Christopher Lloyd wore in The Movies .

The Iconic songs from the original movies such as The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News and Chuck Berry 's Johnny B Goode -. You are connected to is written by a series of new numbers from Silvestri, composed The Music , and the multi-Grammy award winners Glen Ballard .

Gale and Zemeckis enlisted to work in pair, to The Music , before the age of 12. "We have this legendary Film and really tried to find The Elements of the story that makes sense on the stage," Ballard says.

"We were under the Hippocratic oath approach - First , do no harm, especially for these characters and the story that everyone knows and loves. "

Alan Silvestri , who has worked with film music composed for The Films , believes the musical

Silvestri, The Music draws us further into what is a "deeply emotional story", and the lives of the characters can relate to The Audience .

"It is the quintessence of the bullied child will be transformed. The tyrant transformed. Marty is a great adventure, it turns out. It is great love and friendship between Doc and Marty," he says.

"It helps, because you are so clearly painted in the Original Film , you can go for big emotions, and you can go right for the Inner Life of these characters. "

While the musical team are not "hopes slavishly" new position of the film, Bob Gale , it is enough to make it work On Stage and meet fans of " the hunger, Something New from Hill Valley.

"There are many things that are very much the same. But there are things that are different," he says.

"And we hope that we've met, The Right mix, so that the people will say, 'I came here to see Back to The Future , and I saw Back to The Future . '"

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