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BOOP! The Musical
11 Drama Desk Award Nominations
(The most for any show this season).
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New York, NY April 30, 2025 – BOOP! The Musical has received 11 Drama Desk Award nominations for the 2024-2025 season; more than any show on or off Broadway, it was announced today.
Outstanding Musical
Outstanding Lead Performance – Jasmine Amy Rogers
Outstanding Direction – Jerry Mitchell
Outstanding Choreography – Jerry Mitchell
Outstanding Music – David Foster
Outstanding Book – Bob Martin
Outstanding Orchestrations – Doug Besterman
Outstanding Scenic Design – David Rockwell, Finn Ross (projections)
Outstanding Costume Design – Gregg Barnes
Outstanding Lighting Design – Phillip S. Rosenberg
Outstanding Wig and Hair – Sabana Majeed
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 Demarest, Stephen DeRosa as Grampy, Anastacia McCleskey as Carol Evans, Angelica Hale as Trisha, Phillip Huber as Pudgy the Dog, and Aubie Merrylees as Oscar Delacorte.
The cast also includes Lawrence Alexander (Follies), Courtney Arango (Broadway debut, A Chorus Line National Tour), Colin Bradbury (Elf), Tristen Buettel (Bad Cinderella), Joshua Michael Burrage (Cats), Victoria Byrd (Back to the Future), Dan Castiglione (Broadway debut, The Tick), Rebecca Corrigan (Broadway debut, In the Heights film), Ian Gallagher Fitzgerald (Kinky Boots), RJ Higton (The Outsiders), Nina Lafarga (In the Heights), Morgan McGhee (Jelly’s Last Jam), Ryah Nixon (The Great Gatsby), Christian Probst (Bad Cinderella), Ricky Schroeder (Broadway debut, Kinky Boots National Tour), Gabriella Sorrentino (Hamilton), Derek Jordan Taylor (The Great Gatsby), Lizzy Tucker (Broadway debut), Amy Van Norstrand (Holiday Inn), Damani Van Rensalier (Hadestown), and David Wright Jr. (Aladdin).
Tony Award^®-winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots) brings the Queen of the Screen to the theater in BOOP! The Musical, with celebrated multiple Grammy^® Award-winning composer David Foster (“You’re The Inspiration,” “I Will Always Love You”), Tony Award^®-nominated lyricist Susan Birkenhead (Working, Jelly’s Last Jam) and Tony Award^®-winning book writer Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone).
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 (She Loves Me), scenic design; Three-time Tony Award^®-winner Gregg Barnes (Some Like It Hot), costume design; Philip S. Rosenberg (Mrs. Doubtfire), lighting design; Tony Award^®-winner Gareth Owen (MJ: The Musical), sound design; Tony Award^®-winner Finn Ross (Back to the Future), projection design; Emmy Award^®-winner Sabana Majeed (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), hair and wig design; Michael Clifton (Gypsy), makeup design; OBIE Award^®-winner Skylar Fox (Once Upon a Mattress), illusions design; The Huber Marionettes (Suspended Animation), marionette design; Tony Award^®-winner Daryl Waters (A Wonderful World), music supervision and arrangements; Three-time Tony Award^®-winner Doug Besterman (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Orchestrations; Rick Fox (The Who’s TOMMY), music director; and Tony Award^®-nominee Zane Mark (A Wonderful World), dance music arrangements. 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 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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