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Recent Examples of musical comedy
Well, things are pretty scary right now, and on his first album of original songs since before the pandemic, Byrne is … writing musical comedy.
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Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
The puppet show itself is a fun musical comedy for all ages, with a behind-the-scenes look into puppetry after the show.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2025
According to Merriam-Webster, a showgirl is defined as a chorus girl in a musical comedy or nightclub show.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
This new musical comedy flips the script on the greatest love story ever told.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
The puppet show itself is a fun musical comedy for all ages, with a behind-the-scenes look into puppetry after the show.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2025
According to Merriam-Webster, a showgirl is defined as a chorus girl in a musical comedy or nightclub show.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
This new musical comedy flips the script on the greatest love story ever told.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical comedy
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Fox is launching Best Medicine, an adaptation of the long-running medical comedy drama, in midseason.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
13 Oct. 2025
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The comedy drama first arrived on Hulu in April.—
Brenton Blanchet,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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Netflix’s true-crime documentaries have a recognizable sheen to them—the streamer even released a comedy series mocking its take on the genre.—
Paula Mejía,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2025
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But other than the dark comedy of Notre Dame’s kicking game, nothing about it felt like a harbinger of doom.—
Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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In performances at the Ambassador Theatre in New York City, the musical follows killers Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, two murderesses who use their criminal notoriety to find fame in the Vaudeville circuit.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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Directed by Bill Condon, the film is an adaptation of the 1992 musical by Terrence McNally, itself an adaptation of the 1976 play by Manuel Puig.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Oct. 2025
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At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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Regretting You is a similarly ridiculous and overwrought slice of melodrama, leavened with strange moments of comedy that leave you wondering if the whole thing isn’t some kind of bizarre art project, an elaborate, camp parody of the very notion of romantic literature itself.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
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This was the run that was supposed to make up for that tragicomedy of errors.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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The longtime friends put their chemistry to good use in the latest revival of Samuel Beckett's tragicomedy.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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But tragedies like these also reflect the vulnerability of this refugee population – with the overall reduction in support causing a cascade effect for those already living on a knife edge of survival.—
Rebecca Wright,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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Mistakes, misfortunes, even tragedy, toxic secrets from the past—anything can happen, or may have happened.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Oct. 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 3 Nov. 2025.
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