Cory English is set to join the cast of Back to the Future The Musical at the Adelphi Theatre playing ‘Doctor Emmett Brown’.
Cory returns to the role having covered for Tony Award winner Roger Bart for six weeks over the 2022 Christmas period.
English played Max Bialystock in the West End and UK Touring productions of The Producers, directed by Susan Stroman, and his other credits include Sleepless at Troubadour Theatre Wembley Park, She Loves Me at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Igor in Young Frankenstein on Broadway and in the West End, and Benny Southstreet in Michael Grandage’s West End production of Guys & Dolls.
Roger Bart leaves the show on 20 March 2023 to open the new Broadway production of the show which begins performances at the Winter Garden Theatre on 30 June 2023.
Back to the Future is the critically acclaimed Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical, it opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London in September 2021 and is currently booking to 22 October 2023.
The musical is based on the much-loved movie starring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd as Dr Emmett Brown.
The show has a book by Bob Gale and 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 The Power of Love and Johnny B. Goode. The show is directed by Tony Award-winning director John Rando (Urinetown, On The Town), alongside the multi Tony and Olivier Award-winning design team of Tim Hatley (set and costume design), Tim Lutkin (lighting), Hugh Vanstone (lighting consultant), Gareth Owen (sound) and Finn Ross (video), with choreography by Chris Bailey, musical supervision and arrangements by Nick Finlow and Illusions by Chris Fisher. Orchestrations are by Ethan Popp and Bryan Crook, with dance arrangements by David Chase. Casting is by David Grindrod Associates.
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