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Jerry Mitchell has released footage of an early test for Boop! the Musical's color-changing Act Two opening number. Watch a ...
She may be playing a two-dimensional character, but she’s one he ck of a triple threat. That’s Jasmine Amy Rogers, the 25-year-old actress who’s making a marvelous Broadway debut in “Boop ...
In a season saturated by on-stage screens and projections, Boop! has by far the most inventive use of them, taking the black-and-white color scheme of Betty’s old cartoons (which projections ...
When Betty Boop leaves her 1930s cartoon world in “Boop!,” she’s transported (don’t ask how) to a Comic Con convention in New York City where she discovers … color.
From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop!
Betty's on Broadway! Animation icon Betty Boop leaps off of the screen and takes the stage live in living color in BOOP! The Musical, opening tonight at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Jasmine Amy Rogers plays Betty Boop in a bright and bubbly musical that transports the toon icon to New York City. ... she likes him back because she is new to color and impressed by his blue eyes.
The same goes for Gregg Barnes’s costumes, which give Rogers a Boop-ish silhouette, but when they’re in color they’re generally bright and garish and made with flimsy materials.
Boop! The Betty Boop Musical will begin previews at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre on on March 11, 2025, with an opening night set for April 5.
Poor Betty was a victim of the Hays Code, or the Motion Picture Production Code, which in 1934 banned profanity and curtailed violence and sexual content in movies — even animated movies.
In a season saturated by on-stage screens and projections, Boop! has by far the most inventive use of them, taking the black-and-white color scheme of Betty’s old cartoons (which projections ...