enlighted® by Janet Hansen

Boop! The Musical

Boop! The Musical
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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.

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The video demonstrates the sequence of patterns on both the robe and the shirt, as documented in our studio.