CHICAGO - A Tony-Award winner from Michigan has helped bring a cartoon icon to life. You could be among the first people in the world to see a new Broadway-bound musical comedy about Betty Boop.

The classic cartoon character Betty Boop is bigger than ever with a Broadway musical, makeup, clothes and more.

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They know Boop perhaps only as an image on a T-shirt or keychain. Betty Boop became a pop culture icon for the ages. This special-edition Monopoly game celebrated the cartoon darling.

On August 9, 1930, Fleischer Studios introduced a new crooning cartoon. She had the head of a poodle, the body of a pin-up girl, and the charming catchphrase, “boop-oop-a-doop!” Over the next ...

Jasmine Amy Rogers stars as the titular 1930s cartoon icon in “Boop! The Betty Boop Musical,” featuring music by David Foster, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead and a book by Bob Martin.

Betty Boop, the bawdy, big-headed, sweet-voiced cartoon character with the spit-curled hair created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer, was a major draw in the 1930s and has long since become an ...

Betty Boop was “born” in 1930 on Myron “Grim” Natwick’s drawing table at the Fleischer brothers’ Manhattan animation studio. As the journalist Peter Benjaminson details in “The Life ...

Jasmine Amy Rogers has an infectious, irresistible giggle. It’s perfect for the new role she’s stepping into — Betty Boop, the sexy, baby-faced flapper of cartoon fame who’s now getting ...

First introduced in 1930, Betty Boop was created by Max Fleischer for his black and white “Talkartoons” animated series, the world’s first cartoon talkies which Fleischer Studios produced ...