Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’ve won 16 Grammy Awards and now want to write your first Broadway musical. What source material do you pick? There are so many ...

Get ready for Betty! BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical has officially opened its pre-Broadway run in Chicago at the CIBC Theatre. The reviews are coming in now. Find out what the critics are saying about ...

For a character who retired in 1939, Betty Boop has managed to not only stay in the public eye, but thrive in it. Betty's unmistakable look can be seen on coffee mugs and T-shirts, she's active on ...

The new Broadway-bound “Boop! The Musical” imagines what might happen if the early 1930s animation film-short sensation, born at Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount, found herself in modern ...

In 1917, a man named Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a combination of projector and glass drawing board that allowed animators to trace over live-action film, one frame at a time. Fleischer’s ...

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Who’s Betty Boop? Beyond the iconography you might have seen on a lunchbox or keychain, what do you really know? You can recognize her curls, her red flapper dress, and her pursed lips, plus maybe the ...

Do you remember this cartoon? Betty Boop is the original animated siren, a character who has transcended her black-and-white ...

Ignore the cynics and their interest in intimidating ironic innovation! With the market tanking and worry exploding all around, affordable escapism soon will be having a boffo moment at the Broadway ...

You’ve won 16 Grammy Awards and now want to write your first Broadway musical. What source material do you pick? There are so many great novels, movies, straight plays and TV shows out there to choose ...