Betty's on Broadway! BOOP! The Musical just opened yestedray at the Broadhurst Theatre and BroadwayWorld was there to celebrate. Check out photos from the company's first offcial bows below.

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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 ...

Betty Boop has tumbled out of her black-and-white cartoon world into moden-day New York City with all its vibrant sights and ...

In BOOP!, Betty’s dream of an ordinary day off from the super-celebrity in her black-and-white world leads to an extraordinary adventure of color, music, and love in New York City—one that ...

Paramount Pictures has owned the copyrights to the Betty Boop cartoons, and some are entering the public domain as those expire. But the character is still owned by Fleischer Studios, and is ...

The Betty Boop cartoons were not just aimed at kids. They had stuff in them for grownups, too: not least, guest appearances by some of the era's top jazz musicians. Grammy-winning composer David ...

That musical is Boop!, a bright, colorful extravaganza of nostalgic comedy, charming songs, and high-stepping choreography at the Broadhurst Theatre. Book writer Bob Martin teamed up with David Foster ...

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 ...

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 ...