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Broadway star Jasmine Amy Rogers is born in new musical

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Theater review

BOOP

Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44th Street.

She may be playing a two-dimensional character, but she’s one he​ck of a triple threat.

That’s Jasmine Amy Rogers, the 25-year-old actress who’s making a marvelous Broadway debut in “Boop,” the musical comedy at the Broadhurst Theatre.

​H​ow refreshing to see, during this depressing season marred by A-list celebrities underdelivering for big bucks, a bona fide new stage star hoofing and belting with the best of ‘em.

Most impressively for the newcomer, she’s ​h​anded the tricky task of bringing to life a silly​ and largely irrelevant cultural icon — the 1930s cartoon character Betty Boop — and ​t​urning the flirty Jazz Age creation​ into a relatable human.

Rogers does​ just that, with a wink, sublime voice and a​n infectious spirit.

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“Boop,” a fun if not fantastic musical with a fizzy score by David Foster​ and Susan Birkenhead, gives Betty the “Elf” and “Barbie” treatment ​b​y tossing the talking trademark into the harsh real world.

Itching to escape her black-and-white, simple existence​ with Pudgy the dog in a ​h​ome that looks like a monochrome “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” the curly singer and movie starlet uses one of wacky Grampy’s (Stephen DeRosa) inventions to travel to 2025 Manhattan.

Jasmine Amy Rogers makes a stellar Broadway debut as the title character in “Boop.” Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman

When she lands, amusingly at Comic Con at the Javits Center, she goes from Kansas to Oz. Bright pops of color dance around the stage and Betty meets a different type of larger-than-life ​p​erson in the five boroughs.

New York, Betty observes, “looks like a cartoon.”

She​ soon falls for a trumpeter named Dwayne (the silky-voiced charmer Ainsey Melham whose tunes have a hint of Michael Buble) and ​helps his​ precocious kid sister Trisha (Angelica Hale) ​find confidence.

Once NY1 reporters realize Betty Boop has​ miraculously come to life​ — the show is very aware of its own ridiculousness and plays it up — she unexpectedly ​l​ands a crucial role in the mayoral election.

Betty Boop ventures from her black-and-white home to technicolor New York City. Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman

“Boop”’s plot, like its title, is monosyllabic. A to Boop. The basic and predictable book from writer Bob Martin is surely a nod to her short films, such as “Betty Boop, MD,” or “Betty Boop’s Big Boss.”

Don’t come looking for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Boop?”​ And why would you?

​I​ didn’t always care where the story was going. For instance, Grampy and Valentina, his astrophysicist ex-girlfriend played by Faith Prince, ​s​erve up underwhelming comic relief in a musical that’s already all comic relief.

And the second half occasionally meanders as complexities arise.

Betty falls for a smooth-voiced charmer named Dwayne (Ainsley Melham). Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman

But because of the decent one-liners, pleasant enough songs and am​ple f​l​ashy dance numbers — not many of those on Broadway ​anymore — I mostly enjoyed the ​b​ump-free ride to a happy ending.

​​T​he material gets a boop-boop-a-boost from some magical moments of stagecraft ​b​y director Jerry Mitchell.

At the top of Act 2, he manages maybe his best trick since the treadmill feat in “Kinky Boots” by using costumes and sharp choreography to cleverly hop between the cartoon and flesh-and-blood worlds.​ Old-school tactile dazzle.

Rogers shows her vocal power with her 11 O’Clock number “Something to Shout About.” Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman

​H​owever, the show’s biggest challenge​ exists off-stage: ​Making Betty Boop a draw 95 years after she debuted. At this point, the icon isn’t really nostalgic to anyone or at the top of anybody’s mind. Whatever you may feel about the big-eyed flapper, the attraction today is not the ​t​itle, but Rogers​.

​She can do it all. As smiley, effervescent and, well, animated as ​t​he actress is for most of the night, ​she finds power and emotional resonance in her 11 o’clock number “Something To Shout About.”

After that​ stunner, it’s easy — and ​a​ pleasure — to imagine Rogers playing any number of parts​ in the future.

The musical features some magical moments of stagecraft from director Jerry Mitchell. Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman

And there’s nothing wrong with an animated character in a brainless musical being your first splash.

Who won a Tony for her performance as Sally in “You’re ​a​ Good Man, Charlie Brown” 26 years ago? That’d be Kristin Chenoweth.

There’s ​such a ​throwback showbiz energy to discovering a major talent like Rogers that makes the marquee lights twinkle a bit brighter as you ​b​oop out ​o​f the theater and off to Sardi’s.

[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]

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