A 1930s Cartoon Character, Betty Boop, Comes to Life as Broadway’s Most Compelling Musical Comedy Heroine in Decades. Credit the show’s librettist, Bob Martin, and the director and choreographer, ...

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 … Following on the high ...

When it comes to “hidden figures” in Black history, few have a legacy as instantly recognizable as Esther Jones. A largely Harlem-based jazz singer known as “Baby Esther” in the early 1900s, Jones ...

Jasmine Amy Rogers grew up feeling like a cartoon character. “My voice for a kid my age was a little lower than all the rest of the girls,” she says, “but it was also very, very raspy and ...

Who was Betty Boop? New stage musical in Chicago tells a tale of the timeless cartoon creation Almost 100 years after Max Fleischer created the character, she remains a wildly popular slice of ...

Boop! follows our ingenue Betty Boop, the 1930s cartoon character portrayed here by Jasmine Amy Rogers, as she yearns to leave the cold, gray, two-dimensional world of her old-timey cartoon. Her fame ...

Instead of stiff movement, cartoon characters in Fleischer Studios cartoons suddenly could swing and sway like Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong or Betty Boop, an affectionate caricature of a maybe ...

Betty Boop, the bawdy, big-headed, sweet-voiced cartoon character with the spit-curled hair created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer, was a major draw in the 1930s and has long since become an ...

Betty Boop was “born” in 1930 on Myron “Grim” Natwick’s drawing table at the Fleischer brothers’ Manhattan animation studio. As the journalist Peter Benjaminson details in “The Life ...

“I feel like I’m in a Betty Boop cartoon,” said Mark Fleischer. Visitors to the exhibit, which is on the lower floor of the museum, will get a full history of the character, including some ...

The Betty Boop Musical' will open in April of 2025. Go to the ... No word yet on who will take on the role of the iconic animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer back in 1930 for his ...