musicals

plural of musical

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of musicals The performers in the touring casts of Broadway musicals often follow strikingly similar paths from high school to hit show — hours spent practicing show tunes with vocal coaches, years of dance classes, roles in a dozen amateur musical theater productions. Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for musicals
Noun
  • Like the original, all three projects were half-hour comedies.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In a different era, advertisers would use their big budgets to procure similar stuff during primetime dramas and comedies.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Following successful runs at the Royal Opera House in London and the LA Phil, the buzzy English-language opera Last Days has been adapted for the big screen by artist and filmmaker Matt Copson, who co-created the original opera with Oliver Leith.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Now opera lovers from the Bay Area and beyond can see San Francisco Opera’s new staging of the composer’s masterwork: an existential drama of human existence, one that features an international cast featuring Brandon Jovanovich in the title role.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With projects bracing for termination, mission teams broken apart and safety protocols weakened, the guardrails that once kept NASA from repeating its worst tragedies are being stripped away in real time.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • After a devastating series of tragedies gets her medical license revoked, Maggie is without purpose, but not without passion.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Musicals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musicals. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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