Boop-oop-a-doop, here she comes!
BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical
To Open On Broadway April 2025
At a Shubert Theatre to be Announced
New York, NY (June 27, 2024) – BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical will open on Broadway in April 2025 at a Shubert theatre to be announced following a critically acclaimed engagement in Chicago last year.
Tony Award®-winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell brings the Queen of the Animated Screen to the theater in BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical, with celebrated multiple Grammy® Award-winning composer David Foster, Tony Award®-nominated lyricist Susan Birkenhead and Tony Award®-winning book writer Bob Martin.
Casting for the Broadway production of BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical will be announced soon.
Director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell said “Creating BOOP! with David, Susan and Bob and premiering in Chicago last holiday season was a gift to all of us and our entire family. I can’t wait to bring Betty home to Broadway next Spring.”
Betty Boop, that sassy-sweet champion of empowerment, that spit-curled icon of joy, that songstress of strength, comes alive in BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical, the new Broadway musical comedy extravaganza.
For almost a century, Betty Boop, created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer, has won hearts and inspired fans around the world with her trademark looks, voice, and style. Now, in BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical, Betty's dream of an ordinary day off from the super-celebrity in her black-and-white world leads to an extraordinary adventure of color, music, and love in New York City — one that reminds her and the world, “You are capable of amazing things.”
The design and creative team for BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical includes David Rockwell, set design; Gregg Barnes, costumes; Philip S. Rosenberg, lighting; Gareth Owen, sound design; Finn Ross, projection design; Sabana Majeed, hair and wig design; Michael Clifton, makeup design; Skylar Fox, illusions design; The Huber Marionettes, marionette design; Daryl Waters, music supervision and arrangements; Doug Besterman, Orchestrations; Zane Mark, dance music arrangements; and Andrew Resnick, music direction and additional arrangements. Casting is by Tara Rubin.
BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical premiered at Broadway In Chicago’s CIBC Theatre November 19 through December 24, 2023, opening December 6, 2023. Here’s what the critics had to say:
“BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical is Off the Charts! Jerry Mitchell has taken Broadway to a new level….BOOP! brings to life what had been a one-dimensional historic cartoon that has maintained presence in society for 100 years, and vividly creates a three dimensional world. It’s not a Jerry Mitchell show without incredibly strong voices, choreography and sets….BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical is no exception.
BOOP! reaches new heights and this show will take Broadway by storm.” -Paul Lisnek, WGN Radio
“BOOP! is highly polished with a lush score by David Foster.” -Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
“Joyous, spectacular, and a creative wonderland.” -Dean Richards, WGN TV
“Gorgeous. BOOP! has one spectacular number after another.” - Chicago Sun Times
“Big, bold and brilliantly directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.” - Daily Herald
“An amazing show filled with wow and wonder.” - ABC-7 Chicago
BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical is based on the characters created by Max Fleischer.
ABOUT BETTY BOOP AND FLEISCHER STUDIOS
First introduced in 1930, Betty Boop was created by Max Fleischer for his “Talkartoons” series, the world’s first animated “talkies” which Max’s company, Fleischer Studios, produced for Paramount Studios. Betty initially appeared as a dog-like stage performer who sang and danced with another dog-like character named Bimbo, joyfully entertaining vast audiences of other Fleischer characters from the animal kingdom.
Inspired by the collective energy, style, and sound of the many popular Jazz Age flappers and entertainers of the 1920s, Betty quickly evolved into a full-fledged human character, and by 1932 she had become the only female animated screen star in the world. Voiced by Mae Questel, Betty starred in more than 100 cartoons, 90 of which are included in the official Betty Boop series, which ended in 1939. Since then, Betty has appeared in dozens of hit movies, television specials, commercials, and was the first cartoon character to be profiled by A&E’s Biography series.
Today, Fleischer Studios and their great team of creative professionals, have parlayed the iconic Betty Boop into a worldwide licensing phenomenon entertaining millions of fans and collectors alike.
TM & © 2024 Fleischer Studios, Inc.