David Foster Is Heading to Broadway With the Musical-Comedy Adaptation of the 1930s Cartoon Character Betty Boop
variety.comJon Burlingame David Foster, composer-producer-songwriter extraordinaire, never stops. “I am a workaholic,” he confesses, “and I move around a lot.” Foster and his wife, singer-actress Katharine McPhee, will tour during December and January, with multiple dates scheduled for California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. “Kat and I started touring together four or five years ago,” he says. “It’s a nice little show and we talk about our lives and how we got together. “For the longest time, I was in the studio just pounding out music,” he adds. “The artists got to go and enjoy our work and get feedback from a live audience, while I just kept staying in the studio and doing more records.
So it was great to finally get out there and perform these songs with Kat.” They play and sing many of the hits that Foster wrote or produced for such superstars as Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Chicago and Michael Bublé.
Audiences, he says, “are happy to hear the songs and see the connection.” Foster also produced two of the songs on Jennifer Hudson’s new Christmas album: a big-band-infused “Winter Wonderland” and a lush strings-and-piano version of “The Christmas Song.” “That was a lot of fun,” he says. “I really haven’t made a record in 10 years, and it took a lot for somebody to talk me out of retirement.
It’s a great record.” His highest profile project for 2025 is “Boop! The Musical,” slated to open April 5 at New York’s Broadhurst Theatre.
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