approaches some of Betty Boop’s contradictions, but they never make it into the core of the thing. Casting a Black woman as Betty underlines the mainstream white American ... that makes you resort to ...

Despite a strong lead performance by Jasmine Amy Rogers, fun songs and nifty designs, this cartoon of a show remains stuck in ...

Photo: BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical is exuberant fun. Photo courtesy of Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman / Provided by ...

recreate the famous look and style of Betty Boop and the other monochromatic cartoon characters, the updated clothing worn in our present-day city, and the magnificent sparkling theatrical attire of ...

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

Who’s Betty Boop? Beyond the iconography you might have ... the ensemble flips around in costumes that are half color, half black-and-white. If her character remains obscure, at least Rogers ...

So much attention is paid to Tony Awards-season Broadway shows that feature celebrities, or that derive from existing pop-culture properties, that one approaches a show like Boop! The Musical ...

“Boop,” a fun if not fantastic musical with a fizzy score by David Foster and Susan Birkenhead, gives Betty the ... into the harsh real world. Itching to escape her black-and-white ...

Betty’s multitude of nutty roles during her decade-long heyday is cleverly addressed head-on in a snappy opening number in the all-black-and ... “Who is the real Betty Boop?,” ...