Then the answer hit me: Betty Boop! Now, I know what you’re thinking ‘Isn’t she white?’ Well, yes, the Betty Boop we see ...

Betty Boop is the studio’s star attraction, which is historically accurate. In the “Boop!” production, she exists in a hermetic, black-and-white universe of fame.

Betty was famously voiced by Mae Questel (“boop-oop-a-doop!”). The musical opens in that grayscale Jazz Age world but through her grandfather’s time-traveling invention she finds herself in ...