Miami launches vibrant national tour of Estefan musical

“On Your Feet! The Emilio and Gloria Estefan Broadway Musical” earns that exclamation point the old-fashioned way, honestly and thoroughly.

Which is surprising since the show — essentially the same old pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps immigrant success story, this time starring Miami’s pop power couple, the Estefans — still manages to come off fresh, tight and sleek, even as it ticks off tropes with old school showbizzy zeal.

Seamlessly shifting from scene to scene and back and forth in time (occasionally we lose location in all the flurry), “On Your Feet!” opens with the toe-tapper “Rhythm Is Gonna Get You” and runs through the Estefan oeuvre with hits such as “Don’t Wanna Lose You,” “Conga,” “1-2-3” and “Coming Out of the Dark.”

Yet for all its briskly laid-out plot lines, much of the show feels elevated from the typical jukebox musical. For one thing, Miami’s own Christie Prades manages to channel Gloria’s particular timbre, especially in the upper register, without impersonating her. There is also an adept blend of the Estefan songbook into the narrative with the script by Alexander Dinelaris (the movie “Birdman [or the Unexpected

“On Your Feet” opened on Broadway in 2015 and closed in August after 780 performances. At the Tony Awards, it was outshined by the “Hamilton” juggernaut. Although this road version opened last month in Buffalo, which deserves another exclamation point on its own, the producers and Broadway Across America are touting the run in Miami as the Virtue of Ignorance]”). “grand opening” of the national tour. Friday night’s show saw the Estefans in attendance, Emilio bopping his head along with the beat and Gloria singing softly along with the score. Late in the second act, when Gloria’s real-life fight from the brink of paralysis is portrayed onstage, Gloria fought back tears while Emilio comforted her, gently rubbing her knee.