Boop! The Betty Boop Musical will begin previews at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre on on March 11, 2025, with an opening night set for April 5.

Betty Boop debuted in 1930, initially as a dog-like stage performer. She evolved into a human character, becoming the world’s only female animated screen star in 1932, voiced by Mae Questel.

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 ...

Upon the release of Betty Boop the cartoon, Helen Kane, a white singer and actress, sued Max Fleischer and Paramount Publix Corporation, the person and company behind it, for $250,000.

A short item promoting PBS’ Black History Month programming suggested the Betty Boop cartoon character was based on a Black performer of the Jazz Age. That’s not entirely true.

Boop-Oop-a-Doop! “Boop! The Musical,” the Broadway play that opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 5, has announced its final show date after failing to win big at this year’s Tony ...

Here, Betty does not allow any of that to happen. Thus “BOOP!” builds and communicates its own optimistic world, inhabits it fully and makes no apology to anyone.

Here, Betty does not allow any of that to happen. Thus “Boop!” builds and communicates its own optimistic world, inhabits it fully and makes no apology to anyone.

Police have arrested a man who wore a mask and a Betty Boop T-shirt when he stole a 10-week-old puppy from a North Texas pet store. According to McKinney police, the suspect, identified as 28-year ...

A musical about Betty Boop is the latest to join Broadway ’s 2024-2025 season. Helmed by director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical will open on Broadway in April 2025.

When, in the Act One finale, Betty joins Dwayne at a jazz club—and, in a La La Land touch, Dwayne, a white guy from the 2020s, sings a song to a flapper about how much he loves jazz—her ...

Paul goes behind the curtain with the director/choreographer of Boop, Jerry Mitchell (“Kinky Boots,” Pretty Woman”) and legendary composer David Foster about the creative process behind making this ...