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The new musical comedy show will star a frazzled leader, ambitious lieutenant, playful maverick, cranky grouch and quirky problem solver, according to the Disney Auditions website.
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Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
And in an era where musicals too often topple over into high seriousness, the return of musical comedy is lapped up by the audience, nowhere more so than in one of the show’s highpoints, the Act Two opener.
—David Benedict, Variety, 30 Nov. 2025
After years doing a podcast of the same name, Reino and McKenna, who met and began collaborating at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles, have taken Off Book — roughly 50 minutes of musical comedy improvised entirely from a single word suggested by their audience — on the road.
—Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2025
The actress has also switched more to writing and directing, creating Nickelodeon's musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band — which starred her and husband Michael Wolff's two sons, Nat and Alex Wolff — and the 2018 film Stella's Last Weekend, among others.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
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Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
And in an era where musicals too often topple over into high seriousness, the return of musical comedy is lapped up by the audience, nowhere more so than in one of the show’s highpoints, the Act Two opener.
—David Benedict, Variety, 30 Nov. 2025
After years doing a podcast of the same name, Reino and McKenna, who met and began collaborating at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles, have taken Off Book — roughly 50 minutes of musical comedy improvised entirely from a single word suggested by their audience — on the road.
—Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2025
The actress has also switched more to writing and directing, creating Nickelodeon's musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band — which starred her and husband Michael Wolff's two sons, Nat and Alex Wolff — and the 2018 film Stella's Last Weekend, among others.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical comedy
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Naishtat was last on the festival circuit with comedy drama Puan, which premiered at San Sebastian, winning frequent collaborator Subiotto best leading performance.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
1 Jan. 2026
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Driving Miss Daisy, the 1989 comedy drama, details the unlikely friendship between an elderly Jewish widow named Daisy, played by Jessica Tandy, and a Black chauffeur named Hoke, played by Freeman.—
Yamillah Hurtado,
PEOPLE,
25 Nov. 2025
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Fans of her comedy applauded Glaser for not being afraid of going to some dark places, as others objected to the edgy material.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
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With so many comedy writers on the bill, the Broder tribute was no somber affair.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
9 Nov. 2025
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Accordingly, the film is a historical musical.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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The show comes to Broadway as the season has a slim number of new musicals, which could all be vying for the Tony for best musical.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Dec. 2025
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Avoiding romance and melodrama, deBoer writes in an affectless register that mirrors Alice’s dissociation.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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That’s what happens when melodrama (girls) meets baseball (boys)!—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
2 Nov. 2025
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Stoppard broke through in 1966 with his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an ambitious tragicomedy that reimagines the lives of two minor characters in Shakespare’s Hamlet, and which became a landmark moment in British theater.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
29 Nov. 2025
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The citizen in you laughs heartily as this film, a tragicomedy, skewers the hypocrisies and ironies of the repressed West.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
21 Nov. 2025
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Ege didn’t know it at the time, but the tragedy that happened to Musyoka has been playing out across the nation as pedestrian deaths near a four-decade high.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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Burma’s plight is not just a domestic tragedy but echoes across the globe.—
Kim Aris,
Time,
7 Nov. 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 12 Jan. 2026.
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