Character Breakdown: BOOP! THE MUSICAL Cast Unpacks Their Roles

She's just so..

She's just effortless. You know, she's beautiful, she's sexy, she's confident, she's caring, she's very kind

and she's so full of love, and she's iconic, you know? So it's really exciting to get to take that on and put myself into that

And it builds my own confidence up, which is really nice. Because that's what she's all about is you're capable of amazing things

And to get to do that with her is really, really special

The character's name is Dwayne. He's a jazz musician, which I love

I love jazz in real life. I listen to it all the time. So we connect on that moment

And I think he's also a guy that has a nostalgia for sort of like old Hollywood

So I grew up watching films from the 30s and 40s. So we share that as well. I'm really excited to, yeah, to share this character that is, that lives in

2025 New York, but, you know, is sort of like this old school Gene Kelly type flavor. Yeah

I play Grampy Boop This is my line He a he a you know he a he a he a he he a he he he he he he he he he he he he he He an inventor And he creates this machine that sends Betty into 2025 So you welcome If it not for my character there be no show

So there you have it. So that's it. And my character is an astrophysicist, Valentina

And they were there, they were like, we're going to make her that. And I go, well, you know, my dad was a nuclear engineer

So I, I kind of know that world, you know. So it was really fun to kind of create her

about her already? Well, she's smart, but she's funny, and she's in love with him

And they've been together before, but 40 years ago. So they haven't seen each other for 40 years

And so finally, when he comes back to the real world, she's his age, because she was much younger

You know, it was sort of that May December kind of thing. So, and I think this is a show for all ages

like young people, it's PG, but also other people will enjoy this, the two kind of worlds

and also the age. It has all ages. So it's pretty wonderful

I'm so excited to be here. I love basically I play myself let just be honest I on that stage and I playing me She artistic She so spunky She knows the works of New York You know she that girl Okay but she you know she got a little bit of something that everyone got

She's got a little insecure of herself. You know, she wants to be this activist, this artist when she's older

Betty Boop bought her through her hard times, you know, but now she's meeting her her idol

Like, oh my gosh, what do you do about that? It's like, it's crazy. And so, you know, Betty Boop really helps her center herself, find herself

And there's a lot of that in the show. Self-love. There's, you know, romantic love, platonic love

all that kind of stuff in the show. And I feel like that's something really special about her relationship with Trisha

is that she's like, you know, you don't have to be like this. You know, you are special and you are you

That's what's important. So that's what the theme is at the show. I'm about to play Oscar

the director of Betty Boop's shorts in the cartoon world. And what I love about him

is he, he, he, he, he's a cartoon, so he's expressing his inner emotional life in such an extreme way

And he also doesn't really know that he has emotions. And so it's doing that in this innocent, not aware way and sort of through his love of Betty Boop

discovering his own emotions. That like that really a fun journey to go on And to get to play at that level I play Carol Evans She is the campaign manager to Raymond Demeris played by Eric Bergen

And she's Trish's on and kind of DeWain's big sister caretaker. I love her because she's loving and she's a nurturer

She's a hard worker. And after she meets Betty, she's reinvigorated to live in her truth

And so I love that about her. I play Raymond Demarest, who is a candidate for mayor of New York City

who is, I keep saying, you know, isn't it funny that Betty, who's the cartoon

is the one that gives him the dose of reality? He has some schemes and plans that are perhaps not most kosher

I don't know where they got that idea from. But it's fun to play him because he's just so vile

And I have not played a lot of bad guys, so I feel this freedom to just be disgusting

What's scary is that people are really saying, you're really mad like oh god what's coming out of me uh but it's it's just fun it's just stupid

fun and it is uh he's a guy that um david and susan have written me this incredible song that feels

like an old sinatra-esque song and um we have the most fun doing it and it's just laughs and and i can't

believe this is my job