Jasmine Amy Rogers, the breakout star of Boop! The Musical , sits in a corner booth at Sardi’s, squinting. “Is that Idina Menzel ?” she asks, eyeing a caricature of the Wicked actress across the room. The restaurant’s drawings of Broadway legends tower over diners, Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters, and Phylicia Rashad among them.

Rogers is now in their company as a first-time Tony nominee this year for best actress in a musical, a new reality she describes as “very, very wild. It’s too grand, too exciting.”

Her performance as the vampy, spit-curled Betty Boop cartoon-come-to-life earned raves when the musical opened at the Broadhurst Theatre in April. This afternoon, she is a Jasmine-Betty hybrid: Fresh from a showcase for tour producers, she is still in her wide-eyed Boop! make

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