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Recent Examples of musical comedy
While the series was on the air, North also appeared as Dennis on The Donna Reed Show and The Red Skelton Hour and in the 1960 musical comedy film Pépé, starring Cantinflas.
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Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 6 Apr. 2025
Tiana is described as a musical comedy starring the original film’s beloved restaurateur.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 3 Mar. 2025
In an early form of influencer marketing, Allgood arranged for a live opossum to appear onstage with Anna Held, Broadway’s most popular musical comedy star.
—Howard Dorre, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
The show has been seen around the world and is about to be staged at London’s Garrick Theatre, where Brooks previously enjoyed success with the musical comedy Young Frankenstein.
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
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Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 6 Apr. 2025
Tiana is described as a musical comedy starring the original film’s beloved restaurateur.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 3 Mar. 2025
In an early form of influencer marketing, Allgood arranged for a live opossum to appear onstage with Anna Held, Broadway’s most popular musical comedy star.
—Howard Dorre, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
The show has been seen around the world and is about to be staged at London’s Garrick Theatre, where Brooks previously enjoyed success with the musical comedy Young Frankenstein.
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical comedy
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The comedy drama scooped awards at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes.—
Clare Fisher,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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The nine-episode comedy drama featured an ensemble cast including veteran actors Gajraj Rao, Renuka Shahane, Bhuvan Arora, Sparsh Shrivastava, Shivani Raghuvanshi, and Yashpal Sharma.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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Examples include Africa United, a comedy about young Rwandan soccer players; The Trial of Jeff David, a true crime podcast detailing the lives of former slaves falsely accused of murder in the 1800s; and Black Enuf, a cartoon about LGBT hip-hop lovers.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
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The pair also co-wrote Coen’s 2024 crime comedy Drive-Away Dolls that starred Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan and Pedro Pascal.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2025
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Stephen Sondheim might have enjoyed the challenge of creating a musical from such an outlandish premise.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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There’s probably a lot of coffee, as well as a starry-eyed love of stage performance, especially classic musicals and dance.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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Photo: Everett Collection Most stories about identical twins fall into the genres of horror or comedy, but A Stolen Life, one of the earliest twin movies, opts for sumptuous melodrama.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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But this is also Coogler’s riff on the Western, with circling buzzards and black hats; his stylish crime-flick pastiche, with sleek suits and loaded guns; and a Southern Gothic melodrama about the sins of the father and the return of prodigal sons.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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The audience—both the fictional one upstate and the real one in Manhattan—soon slips into a world where human-scale beach balls and painter’s buckets become a playground for physical investigation, where the tragicomedy of real life slips in through the cracks.—
Laura Regensdorf,
Vogue,
25 Apr. 2025
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In its first glimpse of their Carabao Cup-winning team, St James’ Park gave no inclination of letting the moment go, of consigning the recent past to history books which have traditionally read like epic tragicomedy.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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While King's career has been fruitful, she's also experienced tragedy in her personal life.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Holland was attempting a routine landing when the tragedy occurred, and was not performing any stunts, Boggs said.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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This will test the Jonathan Majors bodybuilding psychodrama that debuted at Sundance in 2023 but was derailed by abuse accusations against its star after winning the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision and a distribution deal with Searchlight Pictures, which dropped it.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
21 Mar. 2025
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Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Musical comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical%20comedy. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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