Betty Boop?

[jamiekennywicked]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:21pm

Has anybody heard more about this? Anybody know when it's supposed to premiere? I know Rose Hemingway, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dick Latessa took part in a recent reading.

[emo_geek]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:27pm

I know nothing about it, but after a little google I found this:
http://vimeo.com/24353702

[dexter3]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:49pm

I believe nothing is happening with it at all.

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 8:03pm

I think it's opening the same season as Unchain My Heart, The Nutty Professor and the Brigadoon revival. (What does it take to get Playbill to remove something from its list of upcoming shows?)

[NewYorkPulse24]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 8:56pm

I was actually just thinking about this the other day and wondered if it was still happening

[DooWahDiddy]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 9:00pm

All I know about it is JRB wrote two songs for it (http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/weblog/2009/10/sound_blog_13title_withheld_on.php) but then the bottom fell out and the project died.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 9:09pm

While the number in the video was lovely and beautiful, I think JRB's songs have a much more memorable feel to them.

I remember when Kristin Chenoweth performed "Spread A Little Joy" at her Carnegie Hall concert eons ago and said it was a number from Lippa's take on it.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 9:51pm

I love Betty Boop (and am annoyed we still don't have a decent DVD collection, using the non public domain edited prints, of the wonderful, surreal cartoons she did pre the movie code, when suddenly she could no longer have boyfriends, or a strapless dress, and took on a cute puppy dog). But this seems like one of those completely "why" musicals. Her appeal was in crazy, surrealistic, 7 minute short cartoons. I don't really see any story there (while Annie is a long ways off in tone from Little Orphan Annie it at least is based on a serialized comic strip, same with superhero adaptations). Seeing Cheno play her in a short skit or 30 min one act would probably be amusing, but an entire show made around her?

[gabrieljwickedone]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:20pm

I'd like to see this come to fruition...but not on Broadway. They should do a big regional production at Paper Mill or 5th Avenue or something. Maybe a tour. Then put the licensing rights out. I'm sure it'd be popular with high schools and community theaters.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:36pm

Why is this so dull?

[BroadwayStar4]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 5:48am

I think a Betty Boop musical would great. I love her. I hate how Hello Kitty gets all the attention.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 8:55am

The audience for Betty Boop? Gay men who love campy nostalgia, and young women whose grandmothers told them they look like Betty Boop.