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

Betty Boop may be ready for her close-up ... could just be the tonic the doctor ordered. Frank Scheck, New York Stage Review: Much of the credit for that goes to Jasmine Amy Rogers, making ...

such as “Betty Boop, MD,” or “Betty Boop’s Big Boss.” Don’t come looking for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Boop?” And why would you? I didn’t always care where the story was going.

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

Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and ... Betty Boop. How David Foster went from recording studios to the Broadway musical stage.

It's "boop-oop-a-doop" for a musical that needs a good spritz of Pooph from David Foster, making his Broadway debut.

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 ...

28), with a quizzical raise of the eyebrow. The cartoon character of Betty Boop may be iconic—and she may have a diehard fan-base—but she is not big in the now. Not only that, the show ...

What’s not to love about Betty Boop, U.S.-based international ambassador? It’s a rhetorical question, folks. She cannot be fired. Vastly improved from its Chicago tryout — Mitchell being a ...