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NEW YORK — 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.

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 ...

Broadway In Chicago has announced complete casting for BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical at Broadway In Chicago’s CIBC Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) live on stage for the first time for a limited five-week ...

Created by animator Grim Natwick, and voiced (mostly) by Mae Questel, Betty was the queen of the New York cartoon studio run by Max and Dave Fleischer — Walt Disney's only serious rival in the 1930s.

Betty Boop is coming to town and she’s ready for her onstage close-up. This Fall, Jasmine Amy Rogers will star as Betty Boop! in BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical at Broadway In Chicago’s CIBC Theatre (18 ...

The family of the man who created Betty Boop has failed in a bid to be declared exclusive copyright and trademark owner over the iconic comic character. Max Fleischer created Boop, the childish yet ...

The musical is directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, a Tony Award winner for 'Kinky Boots.' By Caitlin Huston Business Writer A musical about Betty Boop is the latest to join Broadway’s ...

One was the creator of a squeaky-clean mouse named Mickey, the other the brains behind a squeaky-voiced flirt with the catchphrase “Boop-oop-a-doop.” But the two great American animators — Walt Disney ...