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

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 ...

Who better then to give life to Betty Boop, the intoxicating character that gives Boop! The Musical its name, that classic cartoon Jazz Age flapper with the funny voice and a head big and round ...

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 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 ...

“Bill said, ‘What kind of feel would you give Betty Boop?’” Foster says ... (Angelica Hale), who looks up to the trailblazing flapper. “It’s so heartfelt and honest, and it ...

Conceptually, or in different hands, “Boop!” might have been a squick-fest, which only highlights its creative triumph. Befitting Betty’s flapper free-spirit, joy and jazz are everywhere in ...

Betty Boop never really went away ... This time, the chirpy, high-pitched flapper with the unmistakable bob serves as the inspiration and jumping-off point for the new, fish-out-of-water musical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...