![]() But there’s just something about her, a kind of sexy, fun, confident, independent spirit that really speaks to people.”īetty Boop was the brainchild of brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, who began their careers in animation at Manhattan’s Bray Studios before setting up a shop of their own in a basement apartment in 1921 (several years earlier, Max invented the rotoscope, a game-changing apparatus in which artists traced over live action footage frame by frame to create animated films). What’s interesting is the vast majority of those people have probably never even seen any of her shorts. “I walk down the street and I see her everywhere-on jackets, cell phone covers. ![]() “It’s pretty amazing when you think about it,” observes Martin, who earned a Tony nomination for his performance in The Drowsy Chaperone and shared the award for Best Book of a Musical with collaborator, Don McKeller. Now in a pre-Broadway run at the CIBC Theatre in Chicago through December 24, the show comes from folks packing some pretty impressive bona fides - director/ choreographer Jerry Mitchell ( Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde), writer Bob Martin ( The Drowsy Chaperone), 16-time Grammy-winning composer David Foster, and lyricist Susan Birkenhead ( Working, Jelly’s Last Jam).īetty Boop first made her appearance when Herbert Hoover was in the White House, but her image-a combo of pert assurance and endearing vulnerability-has endured. Not only is the character taking to the stage, but as conjured by the creative team of Boop! The Musical, she’s stepping from her cartoon world into life as we live it today. The classic can-do girl of animation fame-first introduced in 1930-is going live. Summer’s over and Betty’s back! Boop that is.
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