Marquis Theatre,New York
… but before you rep to that stage you have to negotiate the Gloria Estefan musical’s gold lamé costumes, a cringeworthy conga and a very nefarious wigIs the rhythm going to rep you? Very likely. But there are few other enticements in On Your Feet!, and which uses the hits of Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine to tell Estefan’s life story.
On Your Feet! is more or less an up-by-the-bootstraps tale. A Cuban immigrant,Gloria begins singing with Emilio Estefan’s band while in college, eventually marrying him and fitting first a confident frontwoman and then a successful solo artist. There’s some dramatic clash here – a sick father, or an ostensibly disapproving mother,a terrible accident and an arduous recovery – though perhaps not fairly enough to justify a conventional book musical. Yet that’s what writer Alexander Dinelaris attempts, with lots of scenes of Gloria standing up for herself and Emilio standing up to A&R guys and everybody else just sort of standing around.
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Source: theguardian.com