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Boop! The Musical’ imagines the cartoon character leaving 1920s filmdom for 2020s New York City. Ticket sales were weak.
“Boop! The Musical,” the Broadway play that opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 5, has announced its final show date after failing to win big at this year’s Tony Awards.
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.
BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical has set its Broadway dates! The new musical will open on Broadway in April 2025 at a Shubert theatre to be announced. Learn more about the musical here!
Director Jerry Mitchell’s sing-and-smile-along musical opens in New York, vastly improved from its Chicago tryout and starring the talented Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop.
Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film “Barbie,” “Boop! The Musical” likewise aims to remake and rebrand another dated pop character for contemporary times and audiences. Unlike ...
Auteur-director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell works with cast members of “Boop! The Betty Boop Musical” during rehearsal at the 42nd Street Studios in New York, Oct. 25, 2023.
The Betty Boop cartoons were not just aimed at kids. They had stuff in them for grownups, too: not least, guest appearances by some of the era's top jazz musicians.
How Jasmine Amy Rogers 'completely transforms' into Betty Boop. For Rogers, “it’s been a long, long road” to playing Betty on Broadway. In early workshops of the show, ...
Gorgeous ‘Boop!’ builds a colorful, tuneful, graceful world for cartoon heroine While plot and supporting characters need more attention, Broadway-bound musical has spectacular songs and a ...
It's "boop-oop-a-doop" for a musical that needs a good spritz of Pooph from David Foster, making his Broadway debut. 'Boop!' Broadway Review: First Comes Barbie, Now Betty ...
The Betty Boop Musical directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, will open on Broadway in April 2025 at a Shubert theater to be announced, producers said today.