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David Foster Makes Surprise Appearance at BOOP! Curtain Call to Announce the BOOP! Original Broadway Cast Recording
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BOOP! The Musical
Original Broadway Cast Recording
Released via Melody Place
Arrives June 6, 2025
Album Produced by David Foster, With Music by
Foster, Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead,
and Orchestrations by Doug Besterman
BOOP! The Musical is the winner of 3 Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical (Jasmine Amy Rogers), Outstanding Choreography (Jerry Mitchell), and Outstanding Costume Design (Gregg Barnes). BOOP! The Musical has also been nominated for 3 Tony Awards, 11 Drama Desk Awards, 3 Drama League Awards, 3 Chita Rivera Awards and 1 Dorian Theatre Award. Additionally, Jasmine Amy Rogers won a Theatre World Award for her outstanding debut performance in BOOP! The Musical.
BOOP! The Musical Original Broadway Cast Recording is produced by legendary 16-time Grammy^® winner / show composer David Foster and Executive Produced by Melody Place (Founder / Chairman, Leigh Shockey; President, Sanborn McGraw; and COO Tony Gottlieb).
Tony Award^®-winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell brings the Queen of the Screen to the theater, with celebrated multiple Grammy^® Award-winning composer David Foster, Tony Award^®-nominated lyricist Susan Birkenhead, Tony Award^®-winning book writer Bob Martin, Tony Award^®-winner Daryl Waters, music supervision and arrangements; Three-time Tony Award^®-winner Doug Besterman, Orchestrations; Rick Fox, music director; and Tony Award^®-nominee Zane Mark, dance music arrangements.
David Foster said “I’ve worked on so many albums over the years but none more personally satisfying than this BOOP! album for so many reasons. To have something ‘marinate’ over so many years was a completely new experience for me. I think that’s why crossing the finish line felt so different than any other project. Major shoutout to our lyricist Susan Birkenhead for her stellar and uncompromising lyrics!! The musicians were world class, and the cast worked so hard to get to the perfection that I always try for -a one in a million experience!!”
“Melody Place could not be more proud of the work David Foster and the entire team have put into this truly magical show. David Foster’s Broadway debut in and of itself is historic…add in the fact nobody makes records like David does…ones with such lush production, sonic quality and attention to detail, it’s clear that this album will stand the test of time” said Sanborn McGraw (Melody Place President/ General Manager).
BOOP! The Musical Original Broadway Cast Recording will feature 20 tracks, performed by the original Broadway cast of BOOP! The Musical.
BOOP! The Musical has just been nominated for 3 Drama League Awards including Outstanding Production of a Musical, Outstanding Direction of a Musical (Jerry Mitchell) and the Distinguished Performance Award (Jasmine Amy Rogers).
Critical praise for BOOP! The Musical:
*“Fun!”
-New York Post, New York Theater, Talkin’ Broadway, The Daily Beast, Time Out New York, Variety
“Joy and jazz are everywhere in the brassy score. Foster has an exceptional hand with songs that distill concise narrative and tender feeling. High-energy numbers, including an opener that reels with a tapping kick line, give the show a rollicking momentum.”
-The Washington Post
“BOOP! is a blissful, toe-tapping spectacle.”
-USA Today
“BOOP!’s score is fizzy and fun.”
-Variety
“BOOP! is bright and bubbly new musical that leaves you grinning.”
-Time Out New York
“BOOP! has big songs and roof-raising numbers.”
-The Daily Beast
“BOOP! is the feel-good musical of the year!”
-Theatermania
“BOOP! is exhilarating, enchanting entertainment.”
-The Sun
“This is the musical I can see getting the cast album and listening to it over and over.”
-Broadway Radio
The principal cast of BOOP! is headed by Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop and Tony Award®-winner Faith Prince as Valentina, Ainsley Melham as Dwayne, Erich Bergen as Raymond, Stephen DeRosa as Grampy, Anastacia McCleskey as Carol, Angelica Hale as Trisha, Phillip Huber as Pudgy the Dog, and Aubie Merrylees as Oscar.
The cast also includes Lawrence Alexander, Courtney Arango, Colin Bradbury, Tristen Buettel, Joshua Michael Burrage, Victoria Byrd, Dan Castiglione, Rebecca Corrigan, Ian Gallagher Fitzgerald, RJ Higton, Nina Lafarga, Morgan McGhee, Ryah Nixon, Christian Probst, Ricky Schroeder, Gabriella Sorrentino, Derek Jordan Taylor, Lizzy Tucker, Amy Van Norstrand, Damani Van Rensalier, and David Wright Jr.
For almost a century, Betty Boop, created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer, has won hearts and inspired fans around the world with her trademark looks, voice, and style. Now, in BOOP! The Musical, 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 finding love in New York City — one that reminds her and the world, “You are capable of amazing things.” 
The design and creative team for BOOP! The Musical includes Tony Award^®-winner David Rockwell, scenic design; Three-time Tony Award^®-winner Gregg Barnes, costume design; Philip S. Rosenberg, lighting design; Tony Award^®-winner Gareth Owen, sound design; Tony Award^®-winner Finn Ross, projection design; Emmy Award^®-winner Sabana Majeed, hair and wig design; Michael Clifton, makeup design; OBIE Award^®-winner Skylar Fox, illusions design; The Huber Marionettes, marionette design; Casting is by The TRC Company, Kevin Metzger-Timson, CSA and Tara Rubin, CSA. DB Bonds is Associate Director, Rachelle Rak and Jon Rua are Associate Choreographers, and General Management is by Foresight Theatrical.
BOOP! The Musical premiered at Broadway In Chicago’s CIBC Theatre November 19 through December 24, 2023, opening December 6, 2023.
BOOP! The Musical is based on the characters created by Max Fleischer. 
ABOUT DAVID FOSTER
David Foster is one of the most illustrious composers of our time. With 16 Grammy Awards, including three for Producer of the Year, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe, and Three Oscar nominations for Best Original Songs, Foster has earned a reputation as a keen spotter of new talent, playing a key role in the discovery and career launches of Celine Dion, Josh Groban, and Michael Bublé.
Few other individuals can claim to have their fingerprints on more major moments in all of popular music than DAVID FOSTER. He has created hit songs for a diverse array of artists including Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, Chicago, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind Fire, Tony Braxton, Natalie Cole, Michael Bolton, Seal, Chaka Khan, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Hall Oates, Brandy, ’N Sync, Boz Scaggs, and Gloria Estefan.
In 2008 and 2011, Foster stepped out as a performer in his own right with “Hitman: David Foster and Friends” PBS specials which became PBS’ highest-rated shows in decades. In 2018/19 Foster started touring with his show “An Intimate Evening with David Foster.” The shows garnered rave reviews and were so successful that he now devotes much of his time to selling out concerts around the world.
Foster composed the scores to BOOP! The Musical, a new Broadway musical about the iconic animated character Betty Boop. In 2023 David released a Christmas album with Katharine McPhee, titled Christmas Songs.
Foster has made charitable work his life’s other priority. Meeting with a young girl from his hometown who was awaiting a liver transplant had a profound impact and led him to create The David Foster Foundation in 1986. Its mission is to provide financial support to Canadian families with children in need of live-saving organ transplants, along with a new focus on organ donor awareness.
ABOUT BETTY BOOP AND FLEISCHER STUDIOS 
First introduced in 1930, Betty Boop was created by Max Fleischer for his “Talkartoons” series, the world’s first animated “talkies” which Max’s company, Fleischer Studios, produced for Paramount Studios. Betty initially appeared as a dog-like stage performer who sang and danced with another dog-like character named Bimbo, joyfully entertaining vast audiences of other Fleischer characters from the animal kingdom.
Inspired by the collective energy, style and sound of the many popular Jazz Age flappers and entertainers of the 1920s, Betty quickly evolved into a full-fledged human character, and by 1932 she had become the only female animated screen star in the world. Voiced by Mae Questel, Betty starred in more than 100 cartoons, 90 of which are included in the official Betty Boop series, which ended in 1939. Since then, Betty has appeared in dozens of hit movies, television specials, commercials, and was the first cartoon character to be profiled by A&E’s Biography series.
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