‘Boop! The Betty Boop Musical’ Sets 2025 Broadway Opening

Greg Evans

27 June 2024 at 9:57 am·2-min read

Boop! The Betty Boop Musical directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, will open on Broadway in April 2025 at a Shubert theater to be announced, producers said today.

The Broadway production follows a successful engagement in Chicago last year that starred Jasmine Amy Rogers as the title character. Casting for the Broadway production will be announced soon.

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In addition to Mitchell, the Boop team includes composer David Foster, lyricist Susan Birkenhead and book writer Bob Martin.

“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,” said Mitchell in a statement. “I can’t wait to bring Betty home to Broadway next spring.”

Betty Boop, the bawdy, big-headed, sweet-voiced cartoon character with the spit-curled hair created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer, was a major draw in the 1930s and has long since become an iconic image in American culture. In the new musical, according to the synopsis, “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 the Broadway production 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! premiered at Broadway In Chicago’s CIBC Theatre November 19 through December 24, 2023, opening December 6, 2023.

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