‘Boop! The Musical' announces final Broadway show in latest Tony Awards casualty
Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
'Boop! The Musical,' the Broadway play that opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 5, has announced its final show date after failing to win big at this year's Tony Awards.
The show's producers made the closing announcement on Wednesday, with Playbill confirming that the musical's final show will be July 13 after a total of 25 previews and 112 regular performances.
6 'Boop! The Musical' has announced its final show date after failing to win big at this year's Tony Awards.
Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
6 Playbill confirmed Wednesday that the musical's final show will be July 13 after a total of 25 previews and 112 regular performances.
Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
Inspired by the classic Depression-era cartoon character Betty Boop, 'Boop' stars Jasmine Amy Rogers, 26, in the leading role.
Directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, the musical follows Rogers' character as she is thrown from her two-dimensional, black-and-white 1930s world to the colorful and vibrant real world of modern-day New York City.
But the show, which includes music by David Foster and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, faced tough competition at the 2025 Tonys.
6 Jasmine Amy Rogers, who played Betty Boop in 'Boop! The Musical,' was nominated for Best Leading Actress in a Musical at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
Although Rogers was nominated for Best Leading Actress in a Musical and Mitchell was nominated for Best Choreography, the production failed to win either category.
This marks the fourth play to take a final bow, drop the curtain and shutter its theater doors for good after losing at the Tonys earlier this month.
'Smash,' which was nominated for Best Choreography and Best Featured Actor, performed its final show on June 22 after 32 previews and only 84 regular performances.
6 'Boop! The Musical' also failed to win a Tony for Best Choreography and Best Costume Design of a Musical.
Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
'Real Women Have Curves' and 'Dead Outlaw' have also announced their final shows after losing out at the Tonys. Both plays will conclude their Broadway runs on June 29.
The news that 'Boop' is closing after just three months of regular performances also comes after some behind-the-scenes drama at Broadway's biggest awards show.
6 'Smash' was the first Broadway play to announce it was closing after losing at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Matthew Murphy
Both 'Boop' and 'Smash' were left out in the cold when the award show's producers refused to let either musical perform during the three-hour CBS broadcast on June 8, even after both productions offered to pay the $300K appearance fee.
'It's bizarre,' one Broadway producer exclusively told the Post as the drama unfolded.
Still, 'Boop' received some positive reviews despite its Tony troubles.
6 'Boop' received some positive reviews even despite its troubles at the Tonys.
Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
The Post's theater critic, Johnny Oleksinski, celebrated Rogers' performance as a live-action Betty Boop – even if he did admit that the production faced certain challenges.
'The show's biggest challenge exists off-stage: Making Betty Boop a draw 95 years after she debuted,' Oleksinski wrote in his three-star review. 'At this point, the icon isn't really nostalgic to anyone or at the top of anybody's mind.'
He added, 'Whatever you may feel about the big-eyed flapper, the attraction today is not the title, but Rogers.'
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