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Recent Examples of musical comedy
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).
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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
Following a social hour from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m., attendees are encouraged to stay for a captivating performance of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder at the North Coast Repertory Theatre, located at 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 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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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
Following a social hour from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m., attendees are encouraged to stay for a captivating performance of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder at the North Coast Repertory Theatre, located at 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 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
Noun
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Filming on the eight-part comedy drama will begin next year, we are told.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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Jay Kelly star George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, attended the red carpet premiere of the comedy drama on Thursday.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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This 2023 crime comedy also stars Poorna Jagannathan, Richard Kind, Lil Rel Howery and more.—
Emy LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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The 2008 comedy became one of Rogen's most beloved features and has since been talked about for years regarding a sequel.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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This fall has both kinds of theater: The Scottish Play and musicals about Lizard Boy.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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Though she's directed smaller musicals and stage shows before, nothing has been on this scale.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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In this 1950s melodrama, Korean War vet Lee (Will Poulter) wants to move from Kansas to California to begin a new life with wife Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and brother Julius (Jacob Elordi).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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The set-up could easily slip into grim melodrama, but Jackman infuses it with a pop-tastic fun.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
5 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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Watts said the child welfare agency also will maintain collaboration with public health officials, law enforcement and treatment providers to prevent tragedies connected to fentanyl and other drugs.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
7 Sep. 2025
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Here is the emphasis on the hardscrabble beginnings and obstacles to be overcome, here is the recognition of a truly raw but once-in-a-lifetime talent that converts the nonbelivers, here are the early wins and the training montages and the tragedies and the comebacks.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 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 11 Sep. 2025.
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