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Recent Examples of musical comedy
At the height of Beatlemania, the Fab Four made this irreverent, cinéma vérité musical comedy depicting a few days in the lives of the biggest band in the world.
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Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 June 2026
There’s a tension between the update’s good intentions and the tendency of musical comedy to traffic in amusing caricatures.
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Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
First was the Pink Lady (gin, apple brandy, lemon, grenadine, egg white) printed in 1913 and named for a Broadway musical comedy of same name.
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Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
16 May 2026
The musical comedy is set to begin previews at downtown Manhattan’s Lucille Lortel Theatre on July 14 ahead of opening night on July 27.
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Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 June 2026
There’s a tension between the update’s good intentions and the tendency of musical comedy to traffic in amusing caricatures.
—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
First was the Pink Lady (gin, apple brandy, lemon, grenadine, egg white) printed in 1913 and named for a Broadway musical comedy of same name.
—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
16 May 2026
The musical comedy is set to begin previews at downtown Manhattan’s Lucille Lortel Theatre on July 14 ahead of opening night on July 27.
—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical comedy
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The actor’s film credits include the 2012 Juliette Binoche comedy drama Another Woman’s Life, as well as the French TV movies Murder on Omaha Beach (2018) and Fatal Reunion (2022).
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As Hacks takes its final bow on HBO Max this week, the cast and creators are bidding a heartfelt farewell to the 5x Golden Globe-winning comedy drama.
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The two first crossed paths on André's Adult Swim late-night talk show comedy series The Eric André Show in 2020.
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In the latest installment of the comedy franchise, written by Chris Hazzard and Mike Fontana, Nick faces his biggest challenge yet… grandkids.
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Of course, bringing an original musical to New York is no small feat.
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The Rocky Horror Show began life as a theatrical musical on London’s West End in 1973.
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With a deep baritone and a flair for hyperbolic sentimentality, Clayton-Thomas’ melodrama fueled a string of hits for Blood, Sweat, and Tears in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
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Griffith’s own work looks stiff and sentimental, weighed down with melodrama and grandiosity that may have seemed dated even in 1915.
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As opposed to tragedy’s narrative arc of historical fate, tragicomedy unfolds in an infinite present.
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Set in Shanghai, the film is a tragicomedy about a mother and daughter grieving their loss while trying to act normal.
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First a human scores a model’s outputs — say, how likely a character in a drama would be to react to news of a tragedy with a host of jokes or expressions of sympathy — going back with one score after another to various responses.
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The parents of the teen killed in the horse carriage crash in Central Park are remembering their son as rides resume a week after the tragedy.
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Unlike Magazine Dreams, the modest but satisfying Test avoids the lurid descent into violent psychodrama that swerved into hallucinatory Taxi Driver territory and undercut that film’s integrity.
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And Malia is also achingly lonesome for her family life, with a sister about to get married and a doting father played, in this headache-inducingly twisty psychodrama’s most refreshing meta-twist, by Romanian director Radu Jude.
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“Musical comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical%20comedy. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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