Jasmine Amy Rogers is the breakout star of the Broadway season for her Tony-nominated performance as cartoon siren Betty Boop ...

Jasmine Amy Rogers grew up feeling like a cartoon character. “My voice for a kid my age was a little lower than all the rest of the girls,” she says, “but it was also very, very raspy and also a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After a successful run as dance captain in Broadway’s “Hamilton,” the Tony Award winning hip-hop ...

But Betty Boop, the 1930s icon the show is based on ... At the character’s peak, her iconic look that’s still well-known today was a flapper minidress, hoop earrings and a garter above ...

Making Betty Boop a draw 95 years after she debuted. At this point, the icon isn’t really nostalgic to anyone or at the top of anybody’s mind. Whatever you may feel about the big-eyed flapper ...

As she came into womanhood, Brigante, who once won a Betty Boop look-alike contest, says she identified with the animated Jazz Age flapper, whom she describes as “very much a feminist icon.” ...

Betty Boop was a dog. Pardon the expression ... Jasmine Amy Rogers plays the flapper with the wide eyes, short skirts and baby-girl voice who was originally inspired by the "boop-oop-a-doop ...

Betty Boop has tumbled out of her black-and-white cartoon world into moden-day New York City with all its vibrant sights and sounds. It's a big adventure for our 1930s flapper girl, and an even ...

Unlike Barbie, who has had a ubiquitous cultural presence for decades, Betty Boop is a Depression-era cartoon character of a jazz-age flapper, and in looks, attitude and style, she is of her time ...

The company owned the rights to several golden-age cartoon characters and needed someone to do a few drawings of the lithesome, flirty, baby-voiced flapper Betty Boop. The one-day gig turned into ...