Jason Robert Brown's Betty Boop Songs

On his blog, Jason Robert Brown has provided MP3 files of two songs he wrote on spec for the still-in-development musical of "Betty Boop at http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/weblog/2009/10/sound_blog_13title_withheld_on.php.

After showing these two songs, JRB was hired alongside writer David Lindsay-Abaire - but then got fired under ambiguous circumstances. Per his agreement with the producers, he now retains ownership of the two songs, but is not allowed to use the characters' names. Of course, that's not too hard to figure out. In the first song, Betty Boop is running for NYC Mayor - kind of timely for the moment.

It's too bad the project didn't work out. The two songs are quite good - and it might have been the show to finally catapult JRB to commercial success.