On Your Feet! (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (2,426)
See it if I expected to be a typical jukebox musical experience. I was BLOWN AWAY. The voices and dancing were out of this world. So Impressive!
Don't see it if If you not into musicals or gloris estefan
See it if You like or love Latin music. Interested in true stories or a fan of Gloria Estefan. We've seen it 2×, the music is great & it's a must see.
Don't see it if You don't like Gloria Estefan or her music. It's just that simple.
See it if You have feet you can get on!
Don't see it if You don't know how to have fun!
See it if Loved Anna and Josh. The music was super great. If you love music see this show the audience gets into it.
Don't see it if no comment
See it if you want to be inspired... I was so impressed with Gloria's husband's attitude to "never give up." Absolutely inspiring.
Don't see it if you don't like great singing, acting and a great life story
See it if I Loved Ita
Don't see it if must see it
See it if You love musicals with happy endings
Don't see it if You aren't into great singing and dancing
See it if you love Gloria Estefan music, like fast-paced theater, like to dance in your seat!
Don't see it if you are not a fan of latin music as well as Gloria Estefan. don't like dancing
Critic Reviews (68)
"The book here by Alexander Dinelaris is hardly a model of robust dramatic construction…But the story is packed with heart, above all in its tender depiction of the couple's sustaining love.…Musical-theater purists will sniff, but audiences looking for entertainment with emotional uplift will get what they came for. Even at its most shameless it's impossible to deny the production's generosity of spirit."
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“The appropriate doses of delight are dispensed from the stage all through 'On Your Feet!'...The book by Alexander Dinelaris conveys vivaciously that theirs is a partnership in every sense…'On Your Feet!' now takes its place in the upper echelons of the jukebox genre… If the Estefans’ musical remains pretty much by-the-numbers, at least those numbers really rock.”
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"In the course of the show's move from Chicago director Jerry Mitchell has greatly improved the storytelling and excised a few lingering cliches of the genre. In its final form, 'On Your Feet!' is at once a classy and populist entry into the Broadway season, offering enough of a musical entertainment to please those who danced to Estefan in the 1990s, and also has enough Latin flavor to appeal to an emerging audience usually ignored by Broadway."
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"It’s a pleasure to welcome 'On Your Feet!,' the rare show that earns its exclamation mark...This biographical jukebox musical packages every showbiz cliché...Sergio Trujillo’s high-energy choreography propels the action, but the show belongs to its cast. Villafañe’s Gloria is sexy in an approachable, likable way, while Segarra’s Emilio is just as hot but also endearingly self-deprecating. Add a brass-heavy orchestra, and you have a hit."
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"'On Your Feet' is a play in which good news always far outweighs the bad — both in its story and in the production. It’s a syrupy, feel-good bio-musical, sure, but a near-perfectly executed one, with great songs and amazing dancing…The band sounds great, Jerry Mitchell’s direction is unsurprisingly crisp and polished, and Sergio Trujillo’s exuberant, Latin-flavored choreography is ferociously fun to watch."
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"'On Your Feet!' has a whitewashed, corporate-approved texture, which makes Gloria and Emilio come off as utterly devoid of personality...It's so self-congratulatory that one gets the impression that they personally vetted every line. The production comes to life during upbeat production numbers, which have lively, salsa-flavored movement and a hot sound. But more often than not, it gets mired in flashbacks and other downbeat sequences in which the songs lack impact."
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"Shows like 'On Your Feet!,' so joyfully exuberant, manage to find that sweet spot for audiences and it is pointless to even try to pick it apart. So even if it's a formulaic jukebox musical that would be right at home in Vegas, 'On Your Feet!' is doing exactly what it promises, and fans are up on their feet and cheering…Director Jerry Mitchell does it again, exploiting the show's feel-good vibe. There's just enough heartfelt emotion to draw us in."
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"As far as these things go, 'On Your Feet!' is better than most. It won't change the course of musical theater, but you will have a really good time seeing it…This two-hour-twenty-minute concert-with-plot pleasantly breezes by, held together by Alexander Dinelaris' smartly efficient book…'On Your Feet!' suffers from the same flaws inherent in any musical that attempts to employ a musician's catalogue to tell a somewhat whitewashed version of a his or her life."
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