Betty Boop Musical, Featuring Score by David Foster, Plans 2010-2011 Broadway Debut

Ostar Productions has announced plans to bring Betty Boop, a new musical, to Broadway in the 2010-2011 season. The production will feature music by 15-time Grammy Award winner David Foster, with book by Sally Robinson and Oscar Williams, and play a Nederlander theatre to be announced.

In the new musical, the inimitable Betty Boop joins her friends Bimbo and Koko to work her irresistible charm in reuniting her grandfather (who has created the Greatest Invention of Mankind) with the long-lost, true love of his life, while saving the Happy Heart Theater from the developer’s bulldozers. First introduced in the 1930s, Betty Boop was created by Max Fleischer for his “Talkartoons” series, the first “talkies” of animation. Betty starred in more than 100 cartoons, 90 of which are included in the official “Betty Boop” series, which ended in 1939. Since then, Betty has appeared in dozens of hit movies, television specials and commercials.

Over the last four decades, Foster has created hits for stars including Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Josh Groban, Earth, Wind + Fire, Chicago, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Buble’ and scores of others. His new DVD HIT MAN – David Foster + Friends is part of the Great Performances Series on PBS, and is scheduled to be released on November 11, as is his autobiography, HIT MAN: 40 Years Making Music, Topping Charts + Winning Grammies. Betty Boop will mark his Broadway debut.

Robinson is best known as a writer in film and television, including Family (for which she received the Humanitas Award) and HBO’s Emmy-nominated Iron Jawed Angels, as well as the movies, Medicine Man and Far Off Place.