Back To The Future - Cast Update

The creative team of Back To The Future are pleased to announce that stage and screen star Brian Conley will join the current cast to play Doctor Emmett Brown at the Adelphi Theatre from Wednesday 13th August 2025, for a strictly limited 12-week run, ending Monday 3 November 2025.

Brian Conley said, “Great Scott! I'm absolutely thrilled to be stepping into the DeLorean as Doc Brown – it’s a gift of a part in such an iconic musical. It’s pure, high-voltage fun, and I can't wait to bring my own spark to the mad genius!”

Brian Conley’s many West End credits include:

• Franklin Hart in 9 to 5 The Musical (Savoy Theatre)

• Edna Turnblad in Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre)

• Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium)

• The title role in Jolson (Victoria Palace) - Olivier Award Nomination 1996

• Bill in Me and My Girl (Adelphi Theatre)

  
  

His touring credits include:

• The title role in Barnum

• Fagin in Oliver!

  
  

Brian’s TV credits include:

• An Audience with Brian Conley

• The Grimleys and The Brian Conley Show,

• The Royal Variety Performance - achieving a record of 8 performances

• Tom ‘Rocky’ Cotton in BBC’s EastEnders - most recent credit

  
  

Cory English will return to the role of Doctor Emmett Brown from Wednesday 5 November 2025.

Current Cast

Caden Brauch as Marty McFly

Cory English as Doctor Emmett Brown

Sarah Goggin as Lorraine Baines

Orlando Gibbs as George McFly

C.J. Borger as Goldie Wilson and Marvin Berry

Alex Runicles as Biff Tannen

Talia Palamathanan as Jennifer Parker

Lee Ormsby as Strickland and alternate Doctor Emmett Brown

Liam McHugh as Dave McFly

Patricia Wilkins as Linda McFly

Ellis Kirk as alternate Marty McFly

The cast is completed by Kofi Aidoo-Appiah, Billie Bowman, Ella Beaumont, Gracie Caine, Charlotte Coggin, Lauren Dawes, Alexander Day, Helen Gulston, Matthew Ives, Connor Lewis, Adam Margilewski, Bryan Mottram, Anna Murray, Samuel Nicholas, Louis Quinn, Zachkiel Smith and Grace Swaby-Moore.

About the Show

The critically acclaimed Olivier, WhatsOnStage and Broadway World Award-winning Best New Musical enters its 4th year in London, having had its opening night on Monday 13 September 2021. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of the original movie, which was released 3 July 1985 in the US.

Back To The Future The Musical won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical, four WhatsOnStage Awards, including Best New Musical, and the Broadway World Award for Best New Musical. The productions in London and Manchester have so far been seen by over 1.6 million people and the musical has broken box office records at the Adelphi Theatre.

Based on the Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment film, Back To The Future The Musical 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.

Marty McFly is a rock ‘n’ roll teenager who is accidentally transported back to 1955 in a time-travelling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr Emmett Brown. But before he can return to 1985, Marty must make sure his high school-aged parents fall in love in order to save his own existence.

Back To The Future The Musical 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. Casting is by David Grindrod CDG for Grindrod Burton Casting.

Booking Information

Adelphi Theatre, Strand, Covent Garden, London, WC2R 0NS

Currently booking until Saturday 3 January 2026

Tickets: from £19.55

Please book via the website: BackToTheFutureMusical.com – no booking fees

Booking line: 0203 925 2998

Accessibility

BACK TO THE FUTURE The Musical has partnered with Gala Pro – a revolutionary app for accessibility and translation to enhance accessible experiences at live performances so you can enjoy any performance of Back to the Future with audio description and closed captioning.