BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical

BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical at Muriel Kauffman Theatre - Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Leaving fame behind for twenty-four hours sounds simple until you're the most recognizable face in the world.

BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical brings the animated icon to Kansas City with a story built on a wish anyone trapped by their own image will recognize. Betty wants one ordinary day away from celebrity, so she steps out of her black-and-white cartoon existence and into the full-color chaos of New York City. What follows is music, romance and the kind of adventure that happens when someone finally gets to be more than a symbol.

David Foster's music and Susan Birkenhead's lyrics drive a story that lets audiences meet the personality beneath the familiar silhouette. This isn't a greatest-hits parade of catchphrases. Betty falls in love, navigates a world that doesn't operate by animation rules and discovers what it costs to be seen as a person instead of a brand. The Muriel Kauffman Theatre at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts hosts a musical where the cartoon becomes human without losing her spark.

Jerry Mitchell directs and choreographs a production where the stakes come from Betty's attempt to claim something for herself. Bob Martin's book builds the escape from black-and-white confines into a full-blown New York adventure, complete with all the complications that love and freedom bring when you're used to living inside someone else's expectations.

Grab your tickets for BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical and watch a legend try on an ordinary life.