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 ...

“Boop! The Musical” — now playing ... In any case, Grampy and Valentina reunite when he returns to the real world to reclaim Betty, without whom the black-and-white world at home is fading.

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 ...

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?,” ...

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

“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 ...