I love pink.” It’s no surprise, then, that Jasmine Amy Rogers chose a diaphanous blush gown to celebrate her turn as Betty Boop in Boop! The Musical. Not only was Saturday her first opening night in ...

and Elle Woods from Legally Blonde is pink (Mitchell’s hat tip to himself), until Trisha (Angelica Hale), the one teenage girl in existence who happens to be a diehard Boop fan, gloms onto Betty, ...

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 ...

“Boop! The Musical” — now playing ... Or make that 27, because Pudgy, Betty’s pug, a marionette with a lolling pink tongue operated by the puppeteer Phillip Huber, sometimes shakes a ...

As luck would have it, Betty lands at Comic Con, where she fits right in and meets the most nonthreatening love interest imaginable, Dwayne (Ainsley Melham), a retro-jazz musician and manny who is ...

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 ...

Dveryone knows Betty Boop’s voice and catch phrases, but this is a surprisingly deep musical. How do you develop the humanity of a cartoon? Well, comedy is always rooted in pain. For me ...

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 ...

His favorite characters to draw—and he was drawing nonstop—were Popeye, Fred Flintstone and the Pink Panther. (Photo by Sergio Villarini for Broadway.com) As for Betty Boop—the first-ever ...

Performances in N.Y.C. 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! Credit ...

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 ...