Topher Payne’s ‘Perfect Arrangement’ Takes on Govt’s Anti-Gay Witch-Hunt: INTERVIEWĬlive Owen Stars in ‘Old Times’ on Broadway and ‘Cloud Nine’ Comes to Atlantic Theatre Co. Matthew Broderick and Annaleigh Ashford Bring Canine Comedy ‘Sylvia’ to Broadway: REVIEW Keira Knightley Stars in Stunning Production of ‘Thérèse Raquin’ on Broadway: REVIEW The Royal Family Comes to Broadway in ‘King Charles III:’ REVIEW Unfortunately, it’s just not all that interesting. That artists telling their own story would be blind to their personal shortcomings, mistakes, and vulnerabilities (or simply reluctant to share them with their fans) is understandable. She’s smart and ambitious and a consummate daddy’s girl! He’s charming and, well, has an accent! While endearing at first, Segarra’s Cuban tongue is borderline clownish, and perhaps more regrettably, eventually interferes with his singing. In any case.) While Gloria and Emilio’s on-stage relationship is actually rather sweet, they are not real characters (who, presumably, might have a few flaws). The book by Alexander Dinelaris (who also penned The Bodyguard Musical) has moments of enjoyable humor, and sometimes speaks with a knowing tone that counteracts the Estefans’ uniformly cheesy lyrics.īut really, On Your Feet! is an unabashed brand endorsement, one that reaches its pinnacle when a suit from Estefan’s record label proclaims, “Madonna doesn’t have this kind of contract!” (Or maybe it’s when fans materialize to read their own letters.
The accident, along with a brief (and relatively unexplained) estrangement from her mother, is the only major adversity the pair faces in the musical’s plot. If you lived through the early ‘90s (or have visited Gloria’s Wikipedia page recently), you know that she was in a collision on her tour bus and suffered a devastating spinal injury, from which it took her nearly a year to recover. They record singles, hit the pavement to get their songs played in clubs, and before you know it, Gloria is out front and they’re on a world tour.
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You can enter your instruments, monitors, DI boxes etc, scale and rotate and provide full details of what you want. After that all you need to do is send the provided URL to the engineer of the venue. In her late teens, Gloria (played with vigor by Ana Villafañe for the rest of the show) meets Emilio (Josh Segarra, more on him later) and takes up singing with his band, which eventually becomes the Miami Sound Machine. Use our stage plan builder to create the exact stage plot for your gig.
When her father gets stationed in Vietnam, he plays cassettes of her songs for his comrades, and she can hardly make it through Miami’s quaint town square (yes, apparently) without igniting a group number. Under the direction of Jerry Mitchell ( Kinky Boots) and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo ( Jersey Boys), it is decidedly more Disney Channel-sweet than E! True Hollywood Story-scandalous.īorn in Havana and whisked to Miami at the onset of the Cuban Revolution, the young Gloria we meet is filled with pride for her homeland and an irrepressible love of music. It’s true that said old hits will lodge themselves into your head for hours (perhaps even days), but you’ll be forgiven for not remembering much else about the show.
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