Get ready to settle into a souped up DeLorean specially designed by eccentric Doc Brown to travel back to 1955 with Marty McFly who\u2019s traveled back by accident and interrupts what should have been his parents meeting, falling in love and eventually having him and his siblings. \u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Back to the Future: The Musical based on the iconic 1985 movie starring Michael J. Fox and Chrisopher Lloyd. \u00a0The musical\u2019s plot line follows the movie fairly closely: Marty\u2019s dad George is bullied by his boss Biff Tannen, Marty\u2019s mother Lorraine becomes infatuated with Marty rather than George, and the images of Marty\u2019s brother and sister start disappearing from the photo he has of them.<\/p>\n
It has a book by Bob Gale (co-creator and co-writer of the Back to the Future film trilogy), new music and lyrics by Emmy and Grammy Award-winning Alan Silvestri and six-time Grammy Award-winning Glen Ballard, with additional songs from the film including \u201cThe Power of Love\u201d and \u201cJohnny B. Goode.\u201d<\/p>\n
The musical also has expanded the role of Goldie Wilson, who\u2019s running for mayor. \u00a0Cartreze Tucker (National Tours: The Color Purple, Motown: The Musical, HAIR) plays both Goldie and Marvin Berry and says the two characters are miles apart.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoldie\u2019s optimistic, hopeful; he has sticktoitiveness. He\u2019s very purposeful, very driven and he\u2019s more grounded.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarvin \u2014 I fashion him after little Richard\u00a0 \u2014 he\u2019s very obnoxious, very flamboyant. Very colorful, very zany. In the movie he was only there for two seconds, for the punch line. He was Chuck Berry\u2019s cousin. They really gave me the freedom to make him whatever I saw him at the time. \u00a0They thought it was very colorful and funny. \u201c<\/p>\n
It\u2019s really easy to switch between the two, Tucker says, \u201cBecause they both require no subtlety. \u201c<\/p>\n
Tucker has been performing since he was 19. He got involved in musicals by accident, he says. \u201cI wanted to go to med school. \u00a0I had a friend at the time who was in theater in high school. We were hanging out once and I was singing in my 1991 Honda Accord in Atlanta, GA and she said, \u00a0\u2018Wait, you can sing?\u2019 and I go \u2018Can\u2019t everyone?\u2019 and she said \u2018No.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cShe persuaded me to take theater as an elective in junior year . The ball started rolling from there. My chorus teacher said \u2018You can sing.\u2019 My drama teacher said \u2018You\u2019re actually very charming on stage,\u2019 and I free\u00a0 voice lessons from my chorus teacher who really believed in me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy when he was 19.<\/p>\n
A friend recommended he try out for the national tour, saying that Tucker\u2019s voice was perfect for the mayor\u2019s role. He auditioned and six call backs later he was told he had the part. \u201cThey told me two days before Christmas 2023.<\/p>\n
The musical won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical and has been seen by more than 1.8 million people. Asked why he thinks it has been so successful, Tucker says:<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s the story. The movie itself is known to be one of the best screenplays of the 21st Century. \u00a0\u00a0So when you have really good material to start with, it\u2019s really easy for it to translate on stage. \u00a0Our creatives have done a fantastic job of elevating it through the technical aspects. \u201c<\/p>\n
Some 60 cast and crew members travel with the show to put it on stage across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was surprised by the care from the creatives. They really did care about these characters; they cared about the story we were telling specifically. \u00a0If you take away the special effects, the spectacle, they really care about the story, the heart of the story which is \u00a0a father and son story. About a child trying to understand the generation before him and bridging that gap. And about the power of love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and Sunday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at TUTS at the Hobby Center, 800 Bagby. For more information, call 713-558-8887 or visit tuts.org. $57-$122.<\/p>\n
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