I Should Hate "Back to the Future: The Musical" (But I Don't)

"In my bleaker thoughts, I wondered whether drama has been reduced to a kind of auxiliary feature for cinematic intellectual property, aiming to produce only minor feelings like recognition and comfort. The cheerier ideas were about theatre as graveside ritual, in which we impersonate or digest our ancestors to defeat death. So not that much cheerier." –Helen Shaw, 2023 "Back to the Future: The Musical" is many things: a blatant cash grab, a technical marvel, a depository of more than a dozen forgettable songs, the location of some of Broadway's hardest working musical theatre performers, and a story about time travel. Zach Barr (they/them) saw the national tour, and then couldn't stop thinking about it. Enjoy a deep dive into the modern trend of the IP Musical, and how it's thrusting Broadway and its audiences...Back to the Past. All music in this video is from the albums "Textural" and "Electronic II" by Podington Bear, and used under a Creative Commons BY-NC license (though Free Music Archive). "And Now They Sing" Playlist:    • Theatre History Video Essays   For suggesting topics: instagram.com/admiralzachbarr For donations: ko-fi.com/admiralzachbarr