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 ...

If you’re a Betty Boop fan, look for Jeri Lynn Brigante at your next car show, rockabilly concert or swing dance. There’s a good chance she might be there with the ladies from the Long Island ...

NEW YORK — In high-school choir, Jasmine Amy Rogers discovered Audra McDonald, the six-time Tony-winning Broadway legend. “I cried the first time I heard her voice,” recalls Rogers, 26.

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 ...

Most impressively for the newcomer, she’s h anded the tricky task of bringing to life a silly and largely irrelevant cultural icon — the 1930s cartoon character Betty Boop — and t ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. From her 1930 debut as a poodle-human hybrid to a modern-day symbol of empowerment, Betty Boop has had an unusual journey to the Broadway stage. Boop-oop-a-doop! Credit ...

As luck would have it, Betty lands at Comic Con, where she fits right in and meets the most nonthreatening love interest imaginable, Dwayne (Ainsley Melham), a retro-jazz musician and manny who is ...

As Betty, the flapper of early talkie cartoons, Jasmine Amy Rogers is immensely likable. She sings fabulously, sports a credible perma-smile, nails all the Boop mannerisms and has a fetching way ...

Jasmine Amy Rogers, left, is a first-time Tony nominee for "Boop! The Musical." “I’m just the luckiest girl in the world,” says Rogers, who is making her Broadway debut as Betty Boop ...