BOOP! The Musical
Opening Night: April 5, 2025
Theater: Broadhurst Theatre
Website: boopthemusical.com
Betty Boop longs for an ordinary day off from fame in her black-and-white world. What she finds is an extraordinary adventure of color, music, and love in New York City!
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April 7, 2025
The most disappointing subgenre of musical, at least in terms of opportunity cost, is the “why?” show: a well-crafted, charmingly performed, highly professional production that nobody asked for. Its intentions are foggy and sometimes suspicious. “Boop! The Musical” — now playing at the Broadhurst Theater, in a production directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell — is a “why?” show par excellence.
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April 8, 2025
In “Boop! The Musical,” the canonical cartoon recounts stints as a lion tamer, judge and hula dancer — professions lifted straight from her shorts. But evidently, Betty Boop missed a credit: magician. Because by the end of this new musical, she left us all boop-boop-a-bewitched.
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April 7, 2025
The alternating worlds are meant to be playful, but Toontown especially gets exhausting quickly, with characters mugging, clowning and amplifying every limp punchline. But the real world is not much subtler, limiting the emotional weight the show might have.
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April 7, 2025
With a zippy score, terrific tap numbers choreographed by director Jerry Mitchell, energetic performances from a top-notch cast, and a plot that doesn’t tax your brain, Boop! is one of the feel-good musicals of the year.
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April 7, 2025
We may not know Betty Boop deeply, but we can agree she has that certain “It” quality that has made her stick around for nearly a century, even if just on lunchboxes. I wish, after seeing this musical, I were closer to identifying why.
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April 7, 2025
Like all the best early 20th century works tragically and systematically erased from our cultural memory, she’s bright, effervescent, relentlessly charming and sexy. Pretty much the same can be said about Boop! The Musical, which just opened at the Broadhurst, but especially about Jasmine Amy Rogers, the instant star imbuing each of the cartoon’s iconic curls with larger-than-life charisma.
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April 7, 2025
It’s difficult to say what’s more embarrassing: the people in Disney outfits out on the street or the chorus at the Broadhurst in costumes that look just as seedy and smelly. Pooph, anyone?
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April 7, 2025
Yet you will likely have more fun at Boop! than in many other theaters this spring; this is an old-fashioned stage-frolic filled show, with big songs and bigger dancing, including roof-raising numbers overseen by director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell, with the company tap-dancing and high-kicking in perfect rows of synchronized movement. If you desire sheer escapism—and I can’t imagine why, the world being just peachy right now—this show is for you.
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April 7, 2025
[Rogers] can do it all. As smiley, effervescent and, well, animated as t he actress is for most of the night, she finds power and emotional resonance in her 11 o’clock number “Something To Shout About.”
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April 7, 2025
Directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, this is an old-fashioned candy shop of a show, where tasty confections are sold in bulk. When Boop! is corny, it’s candy corn. Gorge on the multicolor gumdrops of its high-energy production numbers; chew the jelly beans of its gentle social-mindedness; let the caramel creams of its love story melt slightly oversweetly in your mouth. And above all, savor this show’s red-hot cinnamon heart: Jasmine Amy Rogers, making a sensational Broadway debut as the 1930s animated-short icon Betty Boop.
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The big, dazzling musical showcases the best of Broadway, with sparkling costumes, transformative sets, and tap dancing.
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Marshaled by director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell, talent is everywhere you look, and decent songs are everywhere you listen. Yet all this effort is in service of one of the most maladroit storylines Broadway has encountered in years, with cardboard characters that serve plot purposes only, a book that doesn’t listen to the lyrics and dialogue that doesn’t listen to itself. To quote the King of Siam, who had a really good libretto backing him up: Is a puzzlement.
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And Mitchell handles everything with his usual slick, Broadway-style flair, filling the stage with so much energy that you get caught up in the sheer giddiness of it all.
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April 7, 2025
Yes, it’s kid-friendly. Yes, it’s visually slick. But it’s also toothless. A show about a boundary-pushing cartoon icon shouldn’t feel this safe or generic. Betty Boop may be ready for her close-up, but this isn’t the vehicle she deserves. You are better off watching the original animated shorts on YouTube.
READ THE REVIEWApril 7, 2025
Enter at the Broadhurst Theatre, a joyous, retro, family-friendly charmer for a discombobulated world. Jerry Mitchell’s sing- and smile-a-long production of “BOOP! The Musical” is like gulping a glass of fizzy sangria after a rough day, heck a rough three months and counting, of stress and strife.
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Little of it feels original, and none of it feels necessary. But just like actual Betty Boop merchandise — the many toys, t-shirts, scrunchies and socks covered with her image – “Boop!” doesn’t have to feel necessary; it’s fun. And the main reason for that is Jasmine Amy Rogers.
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