The young actress has earned rave reviews, and a Drama League Award nomination, for her portrayal of the iconic character.

But Betty Boop, the 1930s icon the show is based on, was once considered far too sexy and risque for wholesome and impressionable eyes. Poor Betty was a victim of the Hays Code, or the Motion ...

Who’s Betty Boop? Beyond the iconography you might have seen on a lunchbox or keychain, what do you really know? You can recognize her curls, her red flapper dress, and her pursed lips ...

As Betty, the flapper of early talkie cartoons, Jasmine Amy Rogers is immensely likable. She sings fabulously, sports a credible perma-smile, nails all the Boop mannerisms and has a fetching way ...

Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and ... Betty Boop. How David Foster went from recording studios to the Broadway musical stage.

28), with a quizzical raise of the eyebrow. The cartoon character of Betty Boop may be iconic—and she may have a diehard fan-base—but she is not big in the now. Not only that, the show ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In BOOP!, Betty’s dream of an ordinary ...

That musical is Boop!, a bright, colorful extravaganza of nostalgic comedy, charming songs, and high-stepping choreography at the Broadhurst Theatre. Book writer Bob Martin teamed up with David Foster ...

Most impressively for the newcomer, she’s h anded the tricky task of bringing to life a silly and largely irrelevant cultural icon — the 1930s cartoon character Betty Boop — and t ...

Unlike Barbie, who has had a ubiquitous cultural presence for decades, Betty Boop is a Depression-era cartoon character of a jazz-age flapper, and in looks, attitude and style, she is of her time ...

"Boop! The Musical" is a blissful, toe-tapping spectacle that imagines if Betty Boop (Jasmine Amy Rogers) left her black-and-white animated world for the colorful chaos of modern-day Manhattan.