Betty Boop is tired of being a cartoon and with the help of a machine by Professor Grampy (Stephen DeRosa), Betty leaves her black-and-white cartoon world and sneaks off to modern-day NYC for a vacation –– where she goes to the most hospitable place for a cartoon character: Comic Con at the Javits Center! She also finds love.
“One major dance number takes place on the red staircase by the TKTS booth in Duffy Square on the north side of Times Square, where Betty and her love interest, Dwayne (the Australian performer Ainsley Melham), live large in Technicolor New York anonymity, far from their black-and-white world. There’s a so-called B plot, too, a late-in-life romance between Professor Grampy and his modern-day belle Valentina, as played by the longtime Broadway star Faith Prince.”
“If this stranger-in-a-strange-land story, or the idea of a fictional piece of someone’s intellectual property now struggling with life in the real, modern-day world, puts you in mind of “Enchanted,” “Elf” and, most recently, “Barbie,” such comparisons are not being entirely discouraged.”
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