What if Betty Boop traveled from the cartoon world to our world? Including Boop: The Musical on Broadway!

🎶 Boop-Oop-a-Doop! 🎶
This week we’re tapping our toes, flipping our curls, and leaping out of the inkpot as we explore one of animation’s original divas—Betty Boop!

We’re asking:
What if Betty Boop traveled from the cartoon world to our world?

For the first time, Dear Watchers is hopping from the silver screen to the comic page to the Broadway stage as we visit Earth-Boop-Oop-a-Doop and explore:

📽 Betty Boop Cartoon Shorts (1930–1939)
The surreal, saucy, and sometimes censored origins of Betty Boop, born from the minds of Max Fleischer and Grim Natwick, where jazz met animation in a flapper’s frame.

🎭 Boop! The Musical (Broadway, 2025)
Betty breaks out of her monochrome world in a brand-new Broadway musical, with a book by Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone) and music by Grammy legend David Foster. Can a cartoon star find love—and herself—in modern-day Manhattan?

📘 Betty Boop #1–4 (Dynamite Comics, 2016)
In this charming and spooky revival by Roger Langridge and Gisèle Lagacé, Betty sings at the Oop-A-Doop Club, battles ghosts, and protects her soul from devilish villains—all while staying true to her plucky, positive spirit.

💬 Along the way, we ask:

• Can Betty Boop’s vintage vaudeville energy still resonate in today’s world?
• What does it mean for a character to cross from animated past to physical present?
• And who knew interdimensional travel could be so jazzy?

🌀 From flapper cartoons to musical showstoppers to comic book capers, this episode is your backstage pass to the multiversal spotlight of one of pop culture’s most enduring icons.

Reading / Watch List:
🎬 Betty Boop Theatrical Shorts (1930–1939, Fleischer Studios)
🎭 Boop! The Musical (Broadway, 2025)
📚 Betty Boop #1–4 (Dynamite Comics, 2016)

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