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How 'Back to the Future: The Musical' created a DeLorean that flies

It flies over the audience and flips over — but that's not all that it does.
Casey Likes is Marty McFly in the stage adaptation of "Back to the Future."

After a recent matinee of Back to the Future: The Musical, dozens of families poured out onto Broadway. One of them, the Angelos, had traveled from Sugar Loaf, Penn. to see the show.

"It was amazing," said 8-year-old Lula. "And the car? I can't even speak about it. It went upside down!!"

That's right. It flips upside down . . . because the DeLorean flies. Into the audience.

"I think the

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