instead, the understudy for the key role of doc brown, who has waited 30 years for his big break, gotayed doc in the film, was in the audience. earlier annita mcveigh spoke to the understudy, mark 0xtoby. yes, i did know that christopher lloyd was in the audience. and how much notice did you get that you were going to be performing as doc brown on that opening night? i got the call at around half 12, and you can imagine my surprise. i immediately whizzed into the west end and we started rehearsing, and it was a whirlwind to say the least. so not too much time to get excited about the fact that christopher lloyd was sitting there watching you. it was definitely time to forget that the legend that is christopher lloyd and all the other incredible talents such as bob zemeckis and alan silvestri and glen ballard, etc, etc, that are so heavily involved. to forget they were there and reallyjust try to get into a zone and tell the story. how often does it happen in reality that if you are an understudy that you get the call to step up? it does happen. it happens a fair bit. what doesn't tend

in fact, if you've seen the movie there is a line in the movie where marty mcfly said to doc brown do you mean to tell me you built s a time machine in a delorean. doc brown said if you're going to put a time machine in a car you might as well do it with some style.re the interest in deloreans increased and the car became aw collectors item. in that respect delorean might have had they last laugh as wel and mighted have been saved by hollywood in thech same way tha preston tucker was. what's thehe take away lesson fm what we've studied so far? what doesy history teach us abot the maverick auto makers? they don'ts have a good track record of success. in mafact, they fail and they fl they're trying to enter a business, auto manufacturing, that has such high capital and moneyyo costs, financial costs. you're subject to fickle consumer tastes often. you have problems, as i said, with supply chains and dealerships ander all the complexities of automobile manufacturing and sales. it's a very difficult business to get into. and so these maverick auto makers tend to be broken on the wheel, so

in fact there is a line in the movie where marty mcfly says to doc brown, doc, do you mean to tell me you built a time machine out of a delorean. and doc says if you are going to put a time machine in a car, you might as well do it with some style. the interest in deloreans increased because back of the future, which ended up being a trilogy of movies and the car became a collectors item. in that respect, delorean might have had the last laugh as well and might have been saved by hollywood in the same way that preston tucker was. but what's the takeaway lesson from what we have studied so far? what does history teach us about these maverick auto make centers well, they don't have a good track record of success. in fact, they fail. they fail because they are trying to enter a business, auto manufacturing that has such high capital and money costs, financial costs. you are subject to fickle consumer tastes often. you have problems, as i said, with supply chains and dealerships, and all the complexities of automobile manufacturing and sales. it's a very difficult business to get into. an

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