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Recent Examples of musical comedy
Three Months Later, a new musical comedy about survival and art, will play a three-day engagement in Los Angeles starring Kristen Bell and Lea Thompson.
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Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
The filmmaker also directed the 2015 Netflix Christmas musical comedy special A Very Murray Christmas, featuring Lost in Translation actor Bill Murray.
—Alex Heigl, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
At the time, the project had Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, comedians behind the musical comedy duo Garfunkel & Oates, slated to write original music for the film, with Lindhome expected to write the film’s screenplay.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
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.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
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Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
The filmmaker also directed the 2015 Netflix Christmas musical comedy special A Very Murray Christmas, featuring Lost in Translation actor Bill Murray.
—Alex Heigl, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
At the time, the project had Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, comedians behind the musical comedy duo Garfunkel & Oates, slated to write original music for the film, with Lindhome expected to write the film’s screenplay.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
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.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical comedy
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Alongside Zegler and Marisa Tomei, who was also already announced, Ed Helms and Nat Wolff have also joined the comedy drama.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
12 Feb. 2026
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Cannes-premiering Pillion, A24’s erotic comedy drama by British writer-director Harry Lighton, opens on four screens in New York (Lincoln Square, Angelika Film Center) and Los Angeles (AMC Grove, AMC Century City).—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 Feb. 2026
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The heist comedy is stacked with names that signal SXSW’s continued pull as both launchpad and spectacle.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
23 Feb. 2026
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In drama, because comedy is not currency, everybody’s just cracking jokes all the time.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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The film, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson, is based on her book from the 1999 musical of the same name.—
Nada Aboul Kheir,
Deadline,
22 Feb. 2026
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Because San Diego is one of the biggest creators of new plays and musicals in the United States, the new musical and play categories were the highlights of the evening.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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Writer/director Hammer, though, downplays the melodrama inherent to this scenario, even while shooting sequences, whether in Martin and Leslie’s apartment or in various hospitals, with a bracing handheld intimacy.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2026
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Other artists have tried to tackle this melodrama by grounding us in specific characters’ perspectives, or by heightening the performances, but Fennell embraces the story’s fundamental absurdism by giving us absurd and often glorious images.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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Turner stars in Rosebush Pruning, a satirical tragicomedy thriller, alongside Pamela Anderson, Elle Fanning, Jamie Bell, and Lukas Gage.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
15 Feb. 2026
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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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This tragedy has affected each and every one of us.—
Michael James,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
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One year after their deaths, those closest to Hackman and Arakawa say their legacy is not defined by tragedy, but by devotion — a partnership rooted in privacy, dignity and a love story that endured long after Hollywood faded from view.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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The trauma drama — ideally multigenerational and tied to addiction, abuse or both — is a tough one for audiences that tends to work better as an acting showcase than as involving psychodrama.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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In exerting this apparent influence, Rubio has somehow avoided becoming either a media fixation or a major player in the right’s unfolding psychodrama.—
Ross Douthat,
Mercury News,
26 Dec. 2025
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“Musical comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical%20comedy. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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