ON YOUR FEET! Reviews

I messaged Limelight Mike about this, but I haven't heard anything yet. So in the meantime...

Tonight is the opening night of the new jukebox/bio-musical On Your Feet! Starring Ana Villafane as Gloria Estefan and Josh Segarra as Emilio Estefan. Directed by Two-Time Tony-Winning choreographer Jerry Mitchell with a book by Academy Award-Winning screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris.

Post the reviews right here!

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/theater/on-your-feet-review-gloria-estefan-s-music-upstages-the-story-1.11059573

Updated On: 11/5/15 at 05:16 PM

Isherwood seemed to like it, but has issues with the book, which is no surprise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/theater/review-on-your-feet-rides-the-rhythm-of-the-estefans.html?ref=theater&_r=0

Isherwood's review is rather positive with lots of quotes and even a dig to HAMILTON.

He loved the leading lady too.

Mr Roxy said: "They caught a break when Brantley did not review it"

This.

The Brantley who raved over Mamma Mia, Lysistrata Jones, and Melanie Griffith in Chicago? He's not as predictable as some make him out to be.

Updated On: 11/5/15 at 11:07 PM

Mr Roxy said: "Surprised at the mostly.negative tone of the reviews."

Most of the reviews read rather positive to me. Even Jesse Green gave it a pass. Amazing.

And Isherwood gave them a few quotes to die for. They must be thrilled.

@VintageSnarker:

They list the songs in alphabetical order in the playbill for some reason, here they are:

Musical Numbers

“1-2-3″

“Anything for You”

“Coming Out of the Dark”

“Con los Años Que Me Quedan”

“Conga”

“Cuando Salí de Cuba”

“Cuba Libre”

“Don’t Wanna Lose You”

“Dr. Beat”

“Famous”

“Get on Your Feet”

“Here We Are”

“I See Your Smile”

“If I Never Got to Tell You”

“Live for Loving You”

“Mi Tierra”

“Oye”

“Oye Mi Canto”

“Party Time”

“Reach”

“Rhythm Is Gonna Get You”

“Tradicíon”

“Turn the Beat Around”

“When Someone Comes Into Your Life”

“Wrapped”

Surprising and refreshing to see that Murray didn't trash it. He finds much to like about it, although he has some serious reservations.

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/OnYourFeet2015.html

just read isherwoods review, which seemed overall generally very positive, yet he did not give it "a thumbs up" but gave it the cartoon character on teh bench who looks kinda bored

which seems inconsistent with what he wrote.

The show sounds like its worth seeing (even though im not a huge estafan fan), and I plan to see it on my next trip.

I think the reviews are spot-on for this. It has it's problems but it's so likeable and cast is just great. I hope it does well and has a long, healthy run.

I hope there's a cast recording. I'd like to hear Ana Villafane sing "Wrapped" again.

They offer student tickets with a large allotment of seats through Tix4Students https://www.tix4students.com/events/on-your-feet/

As of now, it's still doing pretty well financially.

I do think it's safe to say that it'll probably be joining Hamilton as a Tony Nominee for Best Musical next year. As we've seen in the past, nominators do seem to enjoy these kinds of shows (Jersey Boys, Beautiful). It should be interesting to see how it will potentially do in Tony nominations.