BOOP!, the new Betty Boop musical, with music by Grammy winner David Foster and directed/choreographed by Tony winner Jerry Mitchell has hit the Broadway stage.
Betty leaves the black-and-white world and finds colorful adventures and romance with Dwayne, a jazz musician boyfriend in present-day New York City, where she is surprised to find that her fame has preceded her; Grampy and Valentina follow her to the real world and also find romance, while superfan Trisha helps and a mayoral candidate is an antagonist.
We are super excited for our friend Janet Hansen of Enlighted Designs who, once again, delivers some remarkable lighted garments using RC4 Wireless gear.
“We were commissioned to create two lighted garments for BOOP! The Musical, an uplifting Broadway show celebrating Betty Boop, which opened in April 2025 at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York. The lighted robe and shirt are used to illustrate a transition from the black and white cartoon world to the full color real world.
These pieces are built with a very high density of individually addressable RGB LED pixels, with a total of about 4000 lights between the two garments.
The lights are programmed with a series of effects, including a gradual expansion of red light to fill the whole surface, a red background with blue twinkling, and then a downward cascading rainbow. The patterns are triggered on cue via wireless DMX, using DMXpix receivers from RC4 Wireless. At each transition, a crossfade in the effects is computed by the Enlighted controller.” says Janet.
