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A blend of 40s fashions with 60s and 70s aesthetics, think Betty Boop if she raided Abba’s wardrobe ... and fluffy mules alongside a sparkling black cat suit with a fur stole and kitten ...
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 It girl with the spit curl looks great for 100, but her Broadway musical, which feels like one big merch grab, is ...
Boop!, tapping its way to Broadway with the encouragement and oversight of Fleischer Studios, tries its best to turn Betty ...
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 ...
Unlike Barbie, who has had a ubiquitous cultural presence for decades, Betty Boop is a Depression-era cartoon ... in a snappy opening number in the all-black-and-white, lingo-spouting, cartoon ...
What’s not to love about Betty Boop ... and forges a show wherein Ms. Boop undergoes a kind of early midlife crisis and craves a vacation. Thus she exits her black-and-white world via a ...
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 ...
Book writer Bob Martin teamed up with David Foster (music) and Susan Birkenhead (lyrics) to bring Betty Boop, Max Fleischer’s iconic cartoon character, out of her black-and-white past and into the ...
Christian Probst has been working on the musical since it went into development in 2022. He is in the ensemble.
Tony winner David Rockwell reunites with Mitchell, a frequent collaborator since the 2000 production of The Rocky Horror Show ...