Review: ‘Back to the Future’ on Broadway races for jokes and leaves the story stranded
NEW YORK — Stories about time-travel are seductive. We’re all trapped in our aging bodies and our creaking moment. And we all fantasize about leaving both of them behind, at least for a few hours at, say, the Winter Garden Theatre.
“This is heavy,” Marty McFly would say. But he doesn’t direct on Broadway.
Those existential concerns are nowhere to be found at the new musical version of the 1985 Robert Zemeckis movie “Back to the Future,” the show a frenetic new spectacle
