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, Jerry ...

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 ...

Mystery is key when it comes to this famous member of the G.I. Joes. Snake Eyes’ skills as an infantryman go hand-in-hand ...

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 ...

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! The Musical is an exciting original production currently running its pre-Broadway tryouts, one premiere location being Chicago. It brings the iconic Betty Boop cartoon character to life in a way ...

The show is the fourth to announce an early closure in the recent weeks, after the shows struck out at the Tony Awards.

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 ...

Ten years in the making, it’s a musical-comedy adaptation of Max Fleischer’s 1930s cartoon character Betty Boop that earned unanimous rave reviews for its Chicago tryout a year ago.

The Betty Boop Musical is scheduled top open on Broadway in April 2025 at a year-to-be announced theater owned by the Shubert Organization (there are 17 in total!).

“Becoming Betty Boop” features drawings, photos, toys and figurines starring the bold and brash character that was created by artist Max Fleisher nearly 100 years ago.