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Recent Examples of musical comedy
According to Merriam-Webster, a showgirl is defined as a chorus girl in a musical comedy or nightclub show.
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Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
In film, he's appeared in the musical comedy World's Best (2023) and Tessa Blake's indie coming-of-age drama Boundary Waters (2024).
—Katie Labovitz, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Hercules: The Muse-ical could be seen on the Disney Magic and Disney Wonder from 1998 through 2008, and was earmarked as a musical comedy.
—Megan Dubois, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
This musical comedy about a group of die-hard bingo players and their fierce competitions and strange rituals.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 June 2025
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Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
In film, he's appeared in the musical comedy World's Best (2023) and Tessa Blake's indie coming-of-age drama Boundary Waters (2024).
—Katie Labovitz, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Hercules: The Muse-ical could be seen on the Disney Magic and Disney Wonder from 1998 through 2008, and was earmarked as a musical comedy.
—Megan Dubois, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
This musical comedy about a group of die-hard bingo players and their fierce competitions and strange rituals.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical comedy
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Upcoming titles include Radu Jude’s comedy drama Kontinental ‘25, winner of Best Screenplay at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
24 Sep. 2025
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The comedy drama first arrived on Hulu in April.—
Brenton Blanchet,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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Last year, comedy vlogger Nathan Graham—whose YouTube channel Unspeakable Studios boasts nearly three and a half million subscribers—recorded a video of the entire process.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Sep. 2025
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An early success was Matt Spicer’s dark comedy Ingrid Goes West (acquired via CAA).—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Sep. 2025
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The iconic musical played at the Bellevue for three years in the mid-1960s.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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The performers in the touring casts of Broadway musicals often follow strikingly similar paths from high school to hit show — hours spent practicing show tunes with vocal coaches, years of dance classes, roles in a dozen amateur musical theater productions.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
21 Sep. 2025
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Italy has picked Francesco Costabile’s dark melodrama Familia as its Oscar contender for the 2026 Academy Awards in the best international feature film category.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Sep. 2025
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Characters archly comment on proceedings directly to camera at some points and retreat into the staid distance of historical drama at others, as passages of seemingly earnest melodrama crash abruptly into broad-brush contemporary satire.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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Its jacket copy states, With a voice somewhere between Violeta Parra and Bad Bunny, Paulina Flores paints a portrait of a city, a generation, and its distinctive characteristics in this tragicomedy.—
Diana Arterian
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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Told with a classic heist structure and hints of tragicomedy, the story follows an ordinary government employee obsessed with winning the Melate lottery.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
23 July 2025
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Flags typically fly at half-staff after national tragedies or deaths of government officials, military members or other first responders.—
Ridah Syed,
jsonline.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The gulf between who Nelson really might be and how an aggregate of cultures—Colombian, American, capitalist, masculine—has molded him is the source of the play’s tragedy.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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How that psychodrama played out in the UK could have lessons for the US — not least because Cummings eventually succeeded in undermining Johnson’s political career, ultimately defenestrating the prime minister through relentless briefings and leaks.—
Jim Waterson,
semafor.com,
6 June 2025
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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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“Musical comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical%20comedy. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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