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“Boop! The Musical,” the Broadway play that opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 5, has announced its final show date ...
Boop! The Musical” is the latest show to close on Broadway after leaving the Tony Awards without any hardware. The show, ...
Poor Betty was a victim of the Hays Code, or the Motion Picture Production Code, which in 1934 banned profanity and curtailed violence and sexual content in movies — even animated movies.
When it comes to “hidden figures” in Black history, few have a legacy as instantly recognizable as Esther Jones. A largely ...
The show is the fourth to announce an early closure in the recent weeks, after the shows struck out at the Tony Awards.
Director Jerry Mitchell’s sing-and-smile-along musical opens in New York, vastly improved from its Chicago tryout and starring the talented Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop.
How Jasmine Amy Rogers 'completely transforms' into Betty Boop. For Rogers, “it’s been a long, long road” to playing Betty on Broadway. In early workshops of the show, ...
Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film “Barbie,” “Boop! The Musical” likewise aims to remake and rebrand another dated pop character for contemporary times and audiences. Unlike ...
“Boop! The Musical” borrows from “Barbie” and “The Wizard of Oz,” takes on #MeToo Baddies and Eric Adams, and brings a show-stopping rainbow of joy to Broadway.
Mitchell figured out that it says Betty Boop on the marquee, and he excised a hefty chunk of the old Chicago caper plot in favor of giving as much stage time to Rogers as possible. Excellent choice.
It's "boop-oop-a-doop" for a musical that needs a good spritz of Pooph from David Foster, making his Broadway debut. 'Boop!' Broadway Review: First Comes Barbie, Now Betty ...