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musicals

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plural of musical

as in comedies

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Recent Examples of musicals The school commissions Broadway writers to pen musicals for students each year and recently has added in a new summer musical, where commercial producers can workshop and develop shows. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026 Founded in 2007 by Gary and Erin Lewis, the company produces stage musicals year-round, as well as musical readings and youth drama education programs. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026 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

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American coming-of-age comedies rarely beat with such uncomfortable verisimilitude.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
At its best, that instinct lends his comedies a shaggy warmth and a conspiratorial mood that suggests the filmmaker, character, and even viewers are all surviving the humiliation of modern intimacy together.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2026

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Music was how my mother—an opera singer, pianist, and educator—taught me to engage with the world.

— Hillary Richard, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
Seven female opera singers sustained long notes in succession, creating a collective mourning ritual for women lost to racialized and gendered violence.

— Thomas Rom, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026

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