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March 17, 2025 35 mins
Fonseca, AMV and the family are live from the Orpheum Theare in San Francisco 
Back to the Future: The Musical is a musical with music and lyrics by Alan Silvestriand Glen Ballard and a book by Bob Gale. It is adapted from the 1985 film Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis and Gale. The show features original music, as well as songgs featured in the film ("The Power of Love", "Earth Angel", "Johnny B. Goode" and "Back in Time").
Originally planned to première in London's West End in 2015, the year to which the film trilogy's characters traveled in Part II,[a change in directors delayed the production. The musical premiered at Manchester Opera House in February 2020, ahead of a 2021 West End transfer. It starred Olly Dobson as Marty McFly and Roger Bart as "Doc" Brown, with Hugh Coles as George McFly. The production received positive reviews in London and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 2022.
The musical began performances on Broadway in June 2023 and ran until January 2025. Bart and Coles reprised their roles, and Casey Likes played Marty. A North American tour began in June 2024.
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
So this time I was going to take the show
on the road a little bit, thinking I would do
this a lot better.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's your nerd side, brought to.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
You by Disney, and of course are friends at Amazon,
and I don't want any of you guys get upsets,
especially Disney. We're doing a Universal Movies production. We're talking
about it Back to the Future. Yes, it's a Universal
franchise that was made famous by Robert Zemeckis Bob Gail,

(00:47):
starring Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd, and it was so
big that they actually made a musical out of it.
And that's where we are today. We're at the Opeum
Free Theater in San Francisco to see Back to the
Future of the musical. Not once, but this is the
second time we're coming back. And I'm sitting here with
my son who's got his Back to the Future vest
gone and AMD's are over here across from me. He's

(01:09):
getting ready to go in and see it. So we're
gonna go sit down and talk real fast about it,
because last week you said we're gonna do reviews about it.
But better what better way would it do to do
a review is when we're about to start the show
and talk about it. Right, So let's start the show
as we rely from Back to the Future of the
musical at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. As it's

(01:30):
the second day from the closing of the show here
and it moves on across the United States and all
started in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
So let's start the show and we'll come right back welcome.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Where Once a year sci fi buffs take their lips
off the barrel of a loaded gun and spend half
a day adjusting their eyes to sunlight. Do you want
to see a comic book with pregnant zombie nuns?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
He was like, Court, what a bunch of freaking nerdos.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I'm a nerds to your personality needs some work. I'm
not fut of the popular quick.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
I'm kind of a lonely nerd.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
In high school, I started a quilt, I did yoga
twice a week, and were flip flops in public.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Like it's wide and nerdy.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm just.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
So. Last week we talked about Daredevil. We're talking about
how good it was. We loved due. I thought it
was one of the best things I've ever seen in
my life. And AMV goes, well, you forgot to talk
about something. You forgot to talk about something. And the
thing she said we read to talk about was Back
to the Future musical. We never got around to it,
and it were just always seemed to be busy all
the time. Okay, so what is your feelings about it?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I was just waiting for you to be really grateful.
That's the only reason why. But I was told from
above that I had to agree. My other son a
tale here.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
And my mom.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Now, I just want to say Andre, who is film
studies and I'll started off as a stage crew person.
He did not want to come because maybe it's not
as cool as it could be. But if you want
just purefoot, everyone different ages are here.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
We're just really enjoying it.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
I appreciate Alexa, who made my coke and whiskey very
nice and sweet.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
What I'm blown away about is the first showing that
we went to.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
I expected to see people I don't know if my
age are fifty three, fifties, forties that actually grew up
with Back to the Future, because they're all eighties child
or whatever. And I'm looking to the left in the
front of me, there's people that are older than me.
I'm talking them the late sixties. I said, oh, have
you ever seen it before? And they go, never seen
back to the future. You don't know anything about it,
but they came to here because it got great, great reviews.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
We wanted to see it.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
And I asked another person later on, like, have you
seen never seen the movie? So people are actually seeing
them play based on what its reviews are and stuff
like that.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Now people are asking me is it good? Is it
really good?

Speaker 1 (03:52):
There are things that are different about the play that
are not the scene in the movie.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
I don't know if it'll ruin it for you or not.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
So what so the question are you going to spoil it?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
And then also we have to say a big thank
you too, because the first time you saw is because
of Margaret and Jane. There's some Broadway fans who just
love coming to theater shows. Guess what I like theater
shows too. Hint, hint, my friend.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Oh, there are some shows that I do not want
to see, like Wicked. I never liked Waiting, Remember.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
I Wicked Wicked so much.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I don't like Wicked is just boring to me.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
But what about the Christmas Carol?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Christmas Carrol's okay? But okay, So what about Elf? Did
you like Elf?

Speaker 2 (04:32):
It was all right, there wasn't, Carl, That's why.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
But I do like going out enjoying with the crowd
and everyone.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
That is an enjoying experience.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
And I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
There's a lot of noise in here. And if you guys,
the background noise is these are theatergoers that are coming
in early for the show because we haven't been we
haven't been the minted to our seat yet.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
You know, they ran out of merchandise and it was
not even a forty minutes before the show, so they ate.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
The guy got.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Back, they got right jackets, they went to restop, they
had to go backstage to get some more.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
So the first time.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
I I have a unique ability to get free things
and I don't know how I do this, and I'll
be nicer like that.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
So we're here for the first showing.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
And all I wanted to do was when I come
to Back to the Future the musical, That's all I wanted.
And I've said this for over three four years when
it first shopping over and over, I want the Marty
McFly vest.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's all I want.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
I don't remember that I know you want to go to.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
I want the jacket. I want the jacket.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
So we get here and I get in line and
I go, Michael, you want a jacket.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yes, we got his small?

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Wait, I got it?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
No, you boy it uh huh.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
But it was extra Larius and can I dix large? Oh,
we're so thew I'm like, what, you got a large?
I even asked the one on the mannequin. He goes, no,
it's no, we can't tell it it skate pold up.
So I kept complaining about it over and over again,
and I talked about it and get one. And then
all of a sudden, I got a note in the
mail from Back to the Future of the Music. Oh,
blah blah blah, thank you so much supporting it so much,

(06:08):
and sent me the jacket, and it was a thank
you so hot. I just got to say thank you guys,
sending my best. And I'm wearing it right now like
capacitor on my left breast and on my back is
Back to the Future of the Musical.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
So and then the tale's coming over. He's not a
big fan like Grandma's. Can you imagine his Grandma's a musical,
But he.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Wanted a beanie.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
He wanted a mug. Now here's a question. A beautiful
eighty plus immigrant grandmother is coming to see the show
with that like it. She will like it because now
until you do agree with USA today, that is a
jaw dropping spectacle that hits all the right bets in Yes.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
It is okay, never won. The songs are fantastic. They
changed the story aline, they added new songs every moment.
There was always something, especially when they're going around. There's
a part that they did a big dance routine on
campus where they're trying to beat up this trying to
beat up Marty McGuire, Calvin Park.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
I'm gonna say, who's beating.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Up fifth And they're running around doing a dance team. Fantastic.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Even the extra choreography and the extra to when bip
uh Doc Brown falls asleep fantastic. The special effects alone
are amazing.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
How know?

Speaker 3 (07:21):
But did you notice how the people in the concessions
and we're a little bit disapproiring or were selling the
merch as Ross would say, when you kept on saying,
well I heard New York it was better. It flies
the way so you still want to go now, not
the way I want you to turn around? Turn around
real quick, so just let everyone listen. They are people

(07:41):
wearing actual costume, Like we're talking about the guest jacket,
the Nike shoes, yes, with the red bush, the plaid
kind of like or checker What do you call that
black and white T shirt?

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Right?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
And that's how I dressed me. Great, it's sad.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
That's that's how he had exactly the same with the
collars up with the collars to eighties dressing.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
That's how it was.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
That's all the bugle boy they should be. They don't
make bugle boy and boy with the pants. Martin McFly
wore beagle Boy and then later on they changed it.
Levi's in the second movie. The show is fantastic. I
loved it, did you You know? You can say you
can ask over and over again if I liked it
or not, but did you like it?

Speaker 4 (08:27):
I enjoyed it as a show. Is it better than
el Yes? Is it better than the Christmas Carrol? Yes?

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Better than Wicked?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
I would say it's the same level as Wicked. I
think it's just a very girly, girly show.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Wicked.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
I just it just didn't do anything for me.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
I think, you know what, I just really enjoy it
like people go to a local theater and just enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
One of the things that's important. I do like the song.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Now, let's talk about Doc Brown's song has a great
message about dreams and opportunities.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Do you remember that?

Speaker 1 (09:04):
But one where he fell asleep on the couch he
saw about the future. He said, he turns about the
future and there's gonna be no diseases or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
At the president. It's gonna be the best president in
the world in the future. I remember all that. That's
exactly what he said. Who's singing, I know, but it
was hopeful.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
There was a nice vocal message.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Let you guys know.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
That is a new song they wrote. When they come
back from intermission. It's him sleepy. He fell asleep on
the couch and he's dreaming about the future. He's so
excited about the future.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Dot Ground special effects of going back to that again.
Amazing the car, the driving, how they go eighty miles
an hour. It's an actual car. It's an actual car.
It's not a real car. It's moved on its own.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Sure the engines out, but it's a full size car.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's not it's a little smaller than the Lord was
actually eighty nine point five and this was serious.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, a little smaller than I can tell you.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
That was interesting.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
I did order you, Glorian manager. I think it was
I don't know, two feet long, and you said to
return it back.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, or when I put it. I have three Doloreans
in my car in my house, and you're in three.
Clarify that I have one to this big. I have
the original DeLorean. Back to the Future Par Two and
Back to Future.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Par You didn't mind the tumbler Back to the Future.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
No no, no, no, no no, no, no, no no
no teaching my coffee warm back in the future. So
the show's fantastic. You want to find more out about it,
go online to Back to the Future musical dot com.
It tells you all the next locations are going to
what they're doing. We're in San Francisco right now, the
second to last night showing second time being here.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I am a nerd. I love this show. Anything else
you want to add to go in? I want to talk.
I want to walk in and go s get seated
and we'll talk in the theater and explain it.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Let's do that, and let's make sure this theater is
a right time. So even though your local theater, school theater,
I'm plugging. There's so many kids out here, are there
not at a seven thirty show?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
It's Saturday.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Though it's Saturday. Go crazy.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Even kids are helping a don't take photos all that stuff.
Come out there and let's go back to the future.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Whoa, whoa?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Anybody fine? Things were finally sitting in the theater right now,
and as you can see in front of me, this
is this is what's amazing. I'm gonna explain to you guys,
because very few there is a screen that looks like
a and this is this is what's not right.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
It looks like a.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Twenty twenty five laptop in front of us on the screen.
This is Back to the Future of the musical. So
that's not nineteen eighty five. Okay, So since read the orphm,
we're sitting down wait for the music of the start.
I'm gonna I'm gonna test am V and see if
she knows what was in name in Back to the Future.
See how good you are with this? And people you
can answer this online. I want you cheating. What was

(11:59):
in the of the mall that Michael J. Fox went
to in the morning when he went super early in
the morning, he had to meet Doc round. Was it.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Twin Pines Mall or was it Lone Pines Mall.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
It's Twin Pines.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Is it like that to the whole movie?

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Or no?

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Well the mall is not always there at one point, so.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
This is what happened the original. It was originally called
Twin Pines Mall because old man Peabuddy planted two pine
trees because he wanted to grow pine trees.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
When Michael J.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Fox starts the car and he drives through to get
out of there, when he's shooting with the shotgun, he
kills when the pine trees.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
So now it's Lone Pines Mall. Thus he changed the future.
Now you get it.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
I do get it.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
But it's not that hard. I just throwed out there.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
These are little tidbits that people don't realize. All right,
here's the other history. Okay, what was the name of
the book that George McFly made at the Back to
the Future.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
It was the name of the book.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
All I gotta say is you're the creative guy and
I'm the money lady. That's all I know.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
It was a match made in space.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
That's the name of it, and he wrote it based
on what happened to him when George, when Marty went
back in time. All right, we don't know any of
this stuff, all right, so we're gonna start to playing.
Let's get back to the musical about it. Have you
heard of any of these performers, because I know their
names and stuff. Any of the performers from the playing,
have you ever heard of them before?

Speaker 3 (13:28):
They're very genuine, so sweet with Aaron Michael. The only
thing is I'm a little bit messed by there was
a beautiful woman saying next.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
To our son, So that's great. And if somebody's showing.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Way too much movies, I'll row double a behind me.
So I'm a little bit distracted.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
But otherwise no, but I think you look it. So
there were some that took been an actor for a
long time. I mean, we're not.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Theater buffs, but maybe this would be the beginning of
a great process doing this.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
All right. I think we got to move this guy.
Are we in your se?

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Is she in your seat? I was just talking to her,
I talk, all right. That's how theaters are things. They
moves around. So the guy you played Doc Brown is
Don Stevenson. It's amazing. It's amazing that Doc has top
billing and Lucas Haller plays Marty McFly in this. It's
amazing as top billing. People are just roaming in right now,

(14:23):
left and right to my left and my right, and
people are sitting down with all their alcohol and stuff
and amv and is sitting like four people away from me,
Aaron Michaels sitting to my left.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
You feel better yet?

Speaker 1 (14:33):
So I took him out to sushi part of this,
and now he's getting sick. He got sick early. Did
you really throw upstairs downstairs? Yes? I do. I'm sorry
Orphia Theater. My son threw up downstairs. So let's get
a kid's point of view. Why I have a few
moments here before he's show.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
What do you think of this?

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Be honest?

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Great musical? Why it's great for kids?

Speaker 1 (14:55):
The the.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Movies a little bit different.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
I kind of think the musical it's like a little
bit Family of Friendly.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Okay, a little bit more less?

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Is it blow you away? How much?

Speaker 3 (15:09):
But is it?

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Is it weird? How different they changed from the movie?

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Do you know why they did that? Right? There are
no Libyans in here.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
You know Libyans are they're from the country of Libya,
which is in South America.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
I mean it's from over the Middle East.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Sorry, from the Middle East because they didn't want to
do any political stuff with them anymore.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
So they're no terrorists or anybody like that building bombs.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
It's more Doc gets gets poisoning from the nuclear the
nuclear chamber he has.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
He's got take him to the doctors, and he's driving
super fast. So they had changed it a little bit.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, and you like the ending, the way that it's
not money, it's just the whole family. Everybody's happy. Yeah,
they changed it. And you know who originally in the
movie you wanted to change it like that, Christian Glover,
the guy who played his father, George McFly, didn't like
any of the original movie because he said, he comes
back in time and it's all about money. That's all right,

(16:05):
should be about family, loving family, and his dad became
a better person. Did you notice that nodges the car
and they're wealthy and stuff like that, so it works
with them. All right, We're gonna take a few minute break.
I'm gonna go try to get sitted seated and situated down.
Then we're gonna see you talk a little bit in
the beginning of it. All right, right, it's your nerd
side from the Back to the Future of the musical

(16:28):
the second to last night.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Of the show. It in San Francisco at the Orphany
of Theater.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Play a little doc.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Are you telling me that you built the time machine?

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Kind of a Deloreate? So I guess the play is
starting right now. We're gonna get in trouble, but we're
gonna let it play a little bit. So while the

(17:02):
play is going on, let me give you fifteen things
you didn't know about Back to the Future. Okay, you
ready for this?

Speaker 3 (17:08):
You mean like how that Deloreans were at out Saint
Patty's Parade in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
We'll get to that a little bit later on, but
I'm gonna paint. Let me paint a picture for you,
since we're going back to the future. Eighteen eighty five.
It was the year Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome and the
Goonies came out. All right, it's already endosm movies. It
was a year featured with some of the best zombie
movies ever, like Stuart's Gordon's Reanimator, John Romero's Day of

(17:35):
the Dead and Dani O'Brien's Attorney of the Living Dead.
You remember those. And then nineteen eighty five, Terry Gillion
filmed Brazil, Tim Burton made Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and
John Hughes directed The Breakfast Club and A Weird Science.
Even the worst movies of nineteen eighty five I came
to be known as one of the best worst movies.
They were American Ninja Commando, Red Sonia, Evasion USA. These

(18:03):
are just some of them, Okay, But in nineteen eighty
five a movie stands out above all, and that movie
was Back to the Future. Yes, and it started off
a franchise. So here we go, Amvy and everyone out there,
and you're like this fifteen things you probably didn't know
about Back to the Future. Okay, all right, here we go,
number fifteen. The script was rejected over forty times.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Did you know this?

Speaker 3 (18:26):
I believe it.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
They didn't like it. They said, oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Oh too much of an original out of the boss
idea Disney.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
They came to Disney, presented to them. They said, this
is this is, this is, this is horrible. We're not
going to make this movie. This is very much the
mom wants to sleep with the Sun. No way, Warner
Brothers didn't want to do it. It went on and
on and on and on. It didn't take until like
Stevens bil Read to go and tell them that Universe Studios.

(18:57):
They worked it out and they finally get it, but
at different times, different scripts, with different companies, different movie studios.
It never worked.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Now do you think that motivates Steven Spielberg to make
amblin Entertainment?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
I think so, But yeah, I think so. It's one
of the factors of it. But he really is. He's
not really hands on with Ambulin Arantina anymore. It's there
and he has green lights things.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
But I know I'm talking about back then though.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
I think, yeah, probably probably your own stuff. And it's
still on the Universal lot to this day. So he's
got good graces of them. And I really didn't want
to throw this out to there to you, but since
you said Steven Spielberg, Steven Spielberg, no, you said it first.
I know, but think about this, and I'm jumping the subject.
There is only and I wanted to talk about the

(19:44):
next show, but he greenlight Ready Player number two. They're
going to start making it now.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Wait he made the first one.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Did you ever read the book?

Speaker 3 (19:55):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:55):
I never got. I read like I got like halfway
through it and I didn't finish it. Why not because
I got busy. I got busy. Hold on, let's get
back to this list and ready player two number fourteen
Champ the Chimp and the Space Man for Pluto. Did
you hear about this?

Speaker 2 (20:13):
I have no idea what you just said?

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Without me more.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Universal Studios executive Sidney Schinenberg came up the idea of
changing the title Back to the Future into Spaceman from
Pluto because Mary goes very easy spaceboy future boy, but
they wanted to call it Spaceboy from Pluto because his
car crashes in there and it's like a space ship.
And they were so embarrassed about this. Steven Spielberg's demchis

(20:41):
they made a joke, go go, oh, this is a
great job. This is a drake joke.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Ha ha ha.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
So the guys didn't bring it up again. And also,
instead of the original script, it was a chimp that
was gonna be ducks, you know, person living in instead
of Einstein the dog. Did you know that?

Speaker 3 (20:59):
No?

Speaker 4 (20:59):
But it's good.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Most likely it's going to be their dog, right who
has a monkey living with them?

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay? And then in the years it was kind of weird.
In nineteen four they made a movie called The Adventures
a Buck Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension in which John
Lithgal you know, goes John Lithgow.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
He plays an amazing are you Jess was nominated for
the Oscar for what movie? Did you just watch? The
Oh yeah, I'm so sorry you lost mister Fox, said Conkye.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Well before Christopher Lloyd was casting in Back to the Future. Actually,
John Lithgow was considered and was very close to being
Doc Brown, but he didn't go for him.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Did not not about you know, he would have done
a good job.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Number twelve Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly. That is the
world famous thing.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
You know that, right?

Speaker 1 (21:51):
I told you.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Everyone talks about it, everyone old news, some.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Kind of wonderful and eighty seven. But he's originally hired
and he almost did. He did eighty percent of the
movie filmed, and Zamecas Skielberg look at the film and.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
They're like, this is he was playing such a serious actor.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Curious it just didn't work out, And they always wanted
Michael J.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Fox.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
So they just said we got to go begged and
begged and nice who did they beg?

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Who beg to.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Beg the crew from Family Ties to get him the
crew or the or NBC right, NBC, that's correct, which
is owned by Universal. Now, uh number eleven, tighter budget,
better movie since they had to replace Eric Stilt Mike
Jay Fox as a lead actor. And Back to the
Future meant the loss of war six weeks of shooting
approximately five million dollars in the movie budget way.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Five million back then or worth five million two.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Back then five million of the movie.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
So how much today they had a.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
I couldn't I couldn't break that day twenty seven million.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
That to rewrite the script on the fly. And the
original Climax movie is supposed to take place at a
nuclear test site in Nevada with the refrigerator and all
that good stuff which they used in Indiana Jones and
the crystal skull which I used later on. So they
go into the clock that was originally at a Universal backlot,
and they changed all the ending and that history became history.

(23:23):
And this is another one number ten people don't know
A tribute to The Time Machine nineteen sixty with I
Love So Much George Powell, produced by George Pounds George
Rod Taylor. I love those two. The time Machine. It's
design of the Lorens red and yellow green time displays
is the same colors used by the time display in
the nineteen sixty movie, which is one of my favorite

(23:45):
movies all time. And we actually got to go to
a Dickens Fair and send in the time machine. But
we didn't get to go any place.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
No, we did not.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Well, in my heart, you did go travel in my heart,
all right.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
So the other one with him take it over a
number nine, Michael J. Fox at the schedule from hell
he had to deal with and everybody knows this. Of course,
he did family ties during the day. They got him
a truck we'll put a bet on back of it
and came from the NBAC Studios family family ties. Such
as long as he could, they got him to the
Universal lot, let him sleep for about two hours, got
him up at him and got him. That's why if

(24:20):
you watch back the Future, most of it's at nighttime.
Twin pines, mall the Delorne going all. That's when he's
working at nighttime, just getting ready for family ties.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Ready.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
He wakes up in the middle of the middle of
the night, right or the day, remember, in his mom's bed.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, so everything's at nighttime if you watch it. Number
eight A guy I love and I fell in love
with him from the movie and I still like him
this day, even though he's a little weird. Crispin Glover,
who plays his dad, George McFly, even know him from
Charlie's Angels. Willard, he's the Charlie's Angel helped me out here.
He's the weird guy in Charlie's and Josie Assassin the

(24:59):
try to kill him.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Oh, the Sassin. Well, he was in another movie too,
wasn't that another time machine movie, The Hot time Machine.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
He had really long.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Haired the ski Resort.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yes, he was.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
He was the Wait, someone sounds a little bit impressed
by me.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Damn impressed. You remember that, And I'm impressed that you
those are one. I took her to go see the
movie and I thought it was one of those movies
you go, I don't want to see this crap. And
I thought it was hilarious. Yeah, you liked it. Christin Glover.
They said it was the hardest person to work with.
And all that stuff where he's really shy and nervous
and acts like a geek, and it was all really true.
They said, he's really shy. This was his first big

(25:38):
movie role, big big movie role, and they said they
had to go had him come back and re dub
scenes because they couldn't understand him because he was so shy.
Now this is the last time he appeared in the
movie because he said he wasn't happy with the ending
he liked. He said he shouldn't come back for monetary game.
It should be family gaming. And he said that's why
he didn't believe in the movie. It was really like that.

(26:02):
But number seven, least number seven, but at least Biff
tenancies to be a cool guy in real life. They say,
Thomas F. Wilson, Uh, you met Yes, I haven't met
Biff a few times. He's a really nice guy.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Are you being impressed?

Speaker 3 (26:15):
How much I remember things?

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I'm very impressed with this. I'm sad about. They asked
me if I wanted to give away his board it's
called pit Bull, and I said no, not right now,
because I already did something with Uh. I was doing
so with Van. I couldn't cross over promotions and I
wanted to pit pull van and I pit bull hoverboard,

(26:37):
but we didn't get it. But anyway, let's get back
to this. Uh. They they said he was a great
person to work with.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
And since he's also working as a stand up comedian,
he kept everyone laughing on the set, So he was different.
As much as you think they hated him because he
was a bad guy, No, they looked.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
It's a job.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
He was acting.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
Question in the musical, there's two different biffs. Which one
did you prefer?

Speaker 2 (27:03):
The first one that was tall and looked.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
Like him or the second one it was smaller.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
But the first Biff, the.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
First he did, I agree?

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Why?

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Uh? He seemed more of a dick in the and
the second doc, which we just saw. I liked him
better because he was funnier and more goofier, and he's
he's got an Australia British accent and it was just
hilarious and he's completely I.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Mean, you had nothing to do with that.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
He reached out and and your kid like he went him.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
I actually bumped him at the end of the show
and said to him, I said, hey, you were the
funnier one. He goes, oh, thanks so much, man, he said,
if you want to see the pictures of him, he
was he originally, he said. He either plays uh Strickling
from Back to the Future here, or he plays doc.
He goes back and forth. So and he's got the purpose.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
He does look like he has a couple of guinness.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
He goes, and I have the perfect hair to play Strickland.
I said, yes, you do. Yes, he is bald number six.
The Hill Valley Continuum continuum or Tye continuum. How are
they say it?

Speaker 2 (28:15):
What are you saying?

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Well, a lot of people don't notice it, but I
notice it, and I love it. People don't notice if
you go to the Twin Pines Mall, if you notice
the beginning of the end, the mall is called Twin
Pines Mall at the beginning of the movie, and when
he comes back, it's called Lone Pines Mall. And I
told you this guy before, and I told you earlier.
It's because Marty originally kills one of the trees for

(28:40):
old p Man Pea Buddies farm, and they call him
Peabuddy because Pea Buddy and Sherman of course, and he
killed one of the pine trees. So there's only one
pine tree. Most people love to see that. And number
five musical mishaps one of the high points of the
original movie. Come to see where Martin fly as she's
in the rock and Rollers, but Johnny be Good where
he actually you know, plays it, so we don't. It's

(29:04):
a whole content. Did he actually invent it? Did he
prevent correct rock and Roll or whatever? But this it's
a whole story. But there's a whole article that he
couldn't do this because the time loop wouldn't work. White.
But every time I think about this, I get a
headache and I don't want to get into it because
we don't go back into the multiverse. Like the multiverse,
you don't know until it happens one day and we actually,

(29:26):
you know, figure about it. All right, So did he
invent time machine? We don't know? Uh? And number four
radical skateboard bro think about this. Did Michael J. Fox
really ride the skateboard?

Speaker 4 (29:39):
Yes? Or no?

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Well at some point he did Michael J. Fox. Well,
this is what's funny. The original filming when they had
Stolt's doing it, he had a stunt double due for him. Yeah,
a Fox came in. He goes, oh, let me do it.
He tried to do a like no, no, no, no,
you're gonna get hurt. No, no, we got He goes, no,
I can do this. I can and he was flipping

(30:05):
off the stairs and all that. Michael J. Fox really
does write a good good skateboard.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Number three the DeLorean.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Everyone knows this deal. Oreans were made huge. Yes, you're
back in the eighties. Have nothing to do with cocaine.
But originally Ford knew that the Back to the Future
movies were coming out and they needed a car. They
said they would give him as many Ford Mustangs as
they wanted and they would pay for them. But Bob
Gail admitted and refused him as he would have compromised

(30:36):
his vision of the stainless skill steel car and the
doors open up for the spacecraft. He goes, no, we
have to use Delorians. It has to be the Looreans
and they were gonna make so much money off this.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Well, a question for you, good idea for the refusal
or bad idea?

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Fantastic idea for the refusal. Everything worked perfectly in it.
Everything in Back to the Future, And if you watch
the making of movies on Netflix, Back to the Future
was a movie made based on what they had and
time constraints and everything changed. This it is used and
I in college, I used it and other people do.

(31:16):
Back to the Future is one of the movies they
get to watch because it's used, because it exemplifies what
a perfect plot is, how the scenario beats character structure,
you feel for them, family involvement, and the big payoff
while it's all fantasy, and how it goes back in
the beginning is the end and it changes. And they

(31:37):
stopped in the middle of the movie, and I was
so pissy he kind of stopping because I was getting
into it again during class, but he goes, do you
see this is? And we go back to here and
this was all done in accident. So it is one
of those movies that is perfectly pieced together, edited and created,
and it's all by accident of different pieces happened because
these weren't the original visions. Everything changed. Number two, Ronald

(32:00):
Reagan loved the movie. They were scared he was gonna
love it. They sent the script to the White House,
so mister Reagan look at President Reagan to look over it,
and he says, well, lettyko because I love it, and
Mommy loves it too. He loved it so much. A
private show for him at the White House. Not only
of that, they try to bring him back to Back

(32:21):
to the Future Part three because they want him to
blaye a cowboy, but he said, no, I'm not feeling
too good. It was those days and here we go
number one. It took over two hundred days for Back
to Future to or earn over two hundred million at
the box office. Nowadays, bock bunchers right away, but not there.

(32:42):
It was different night. According to box office Mojo, we
read this moving it around eleven million during its first weekend,
a bit more than half its production budget. But Back
to Future then stay at the top of the box
office for twelve weeks. The feet offentually impossible. Pull off. Today,
after two hundred and thirty two days, almost thirty four weeks,
Back to the Future cross two hundred million threshold, which

(33:04):
adjusted for inflation, is almost five hundred million in today's dollars. Amazing.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
So he sho right, question, who's second place?

Speaker 1 (33:13):
That's Danna Jones. I believe Indiana Jones and the Temple
Doom kind of pushed me out a.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
Little bit because Steven Spielberg movie, uh huh.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
So, here's the thing. Here, here's the thing to happen.
I used to watch this thing on Showtime and it
was called they used to do this thing the top
ten movies of the weekend. And I remember I forgot
the guy did it, but it was on Showtime. It
was there, always show the car coming out, and they
would talk about every weekend still number one the box office,
Back to the Future the next weekend, next week and

(33:43):
back to the Future. And I was like, by the
fourth weekend, summer was still going on. I got my
five dollars and fifty cents, went with my buddies downtown
San Francisco at the Galaxy and what to go see
Back to the Future. And I came out and went, whoa.
That's when I started playing my skateboard. Hey, I wanted
to say something personally to you because we're going to
wrap it up.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
We're in the lawn.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
Oh wait, you forgot number A special secret thing. And
also your mother in law went to see Back to
the Future with you.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
How old is she? She is helped me with the map.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Wait, four to five eight, three years.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Old and she enjoyed it and loved the movie. So
I mean the play. She goes, this is fantastic, So
all the people Back to the Future of the musical.
Thank you guys for having us out there, thank you
for letting me do. Thank you for the jacket, thank
you for being in town. Here want the best the vesty.
Since they were in London, I was like, well, then

(34:44):
they came to New York. We think about flying out
there see it San Francisco. Selle, you did not let down.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Amazing, amazing, even though you kept asking everyone that you
thought the New York production was better.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
I didn't see it.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
I just heard it was uh huh, yeah, you were
a couple.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Pla.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
I heard the New York is better.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
It actually flies into the audience. That's chance to see
the play. Go see the play.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
It is definitely all right.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Next week we can get back to our regular show.
I just want to give a love, little love here
for Back to the Future Musical. Take us out. Let's
hear a little bit more from the musical, which I'll
probably get in trouble with saying this, but let's hear
some more of it.
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