Video: Jasmine Amy Rogers Talks Overcoming Audition Nerves for BOOP! THE MUSICAL
The new musical is now open at the Broadhurst Theatre.
By: Josh Sharpe Apr. 21, 2025
Amid her Broadway debut as the classic cartoon character Betty Boop in BOOP! The Musical, Jasmine Amy Rogers visited CBS Mornings to talk about taking on the role in the new Broadway show. Despite receiving rave reviews for her performance, Rogers recalled that she wasn't confident in her first audition for the musical.
"I was so out-of-body...I had never felt like I had wanted to walk out of an audition before, but I was ready to just leave," she admitted on the morning show. After finishing that audition, the directors initially told her that they would be moving in a different direction. However, after months of looking for the right actor, they brought her back for another chance- and this one was different.
"I took the time to collect myself and my dancing and my confidence," she said, adding that the directors gave her some advice that allowed her to feel more self-assured in the room. "I just went in there and attacked it, and then I got it." Watch the full interview, where she calls the whole experience of starring in Boop! as "magical. I don't think there's another word to describe it."
For almost a century, Betty Boop, created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer, has won hearts and inspired fans around the world with her trademark looks, voice, and style. Now, in BOOP! The Musical, Betty's dream of an ordinary day off from the super-celebrity in her black-and-white world leads to an extraordinary adventure of color, music, and finding love in New York City — one that reminds her and the world, “You are capable of amazing things.”
The principal cast of BOOP!, who received critical acclaim in the Chicago pre-Broadway run last year, is headed by Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop and Tony Award®-winner Faith Prince as Valentina, Ainsley Melham as Dwayne, Erich Bergen as Raymond Demarest, Stephen DeRosa as Grampy, Anastacia McCleskey as Carol Evans, Angelica Hale as Trisha, Phillip Huber as Pudgy the Dog, and Aubie Merrylees as Oscar Delacorte.
The cast also includes Lawrence Alexander (Follies), Courtney Arango (Broadway debut, A Chorus Line National Tour), Colin Bradbury (Elf), Tristen Buettel (Bad Cinderella), Joshua Michael Burrage (Cats), Victoria Byrd (Back to the Future), Dan Castiglione (Broadway debut, The Tick), Rebecca Corrigan (Broadway debut, In the Heights film), Ian Gallagher Fitzgerald (Kinky Boots), RJ Higton (The Outsiders), Nina Lafarga (In the Heights), Morgan McGhee (Jelly’s Last Jam), Ryah Nixon (The Great Gatsby), Christian Probst (Bad Cinderella), Ricky Schroeder (Broadway debut, Kinky Boots National Tour), Gabriella Sorrentino (Hamilton), Derek Jordan Taylor (The Great Gatsby), Lizzy Tucker (Broadway debut), Amy Van Norstrand (Holiday Inn), Damani Van Rensalier (Hadestown), and David Wright Jr. (Aladdin).
Tony Award®-winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots) brings the Queen of the Screen to the theater in BOOP! The Musical, with celebrated multiple Grammy® Award-winning composer David Foster (“You’re The Inspiration,” “I Will Always Love You”), Tony Award®-nominated lyricist Susan Birkenhead (Working, Jelly’s Last Jam) and Tony Award®-winning book writer Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone).
