How to Use musical in a Sentence

musical

1 of 2 adjective

• She has a very musical voice.
• This tour gives us the chance to combine the best of both musical worlds.
  — The Courier-Journal, 16 Mar. 2024
• The film tells of two South Africans' mission to seek out the fate of their musical hero.
  — CBS News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Some of the greatest musical moments of my life were in that barn.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
• This marks Eilish's third time as a musical guest on SNL in four years.
  — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
• Least of all a musical number that describes God with a gay slur.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• The former couple and co-parents met in 1996 on the set of Rent, a beloved Broadway musical.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 18 Oct. 2023
• The late 1950s was a challenging time for newcomers to the musical stage.
  — Robert Berkvist, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• Born 150 years ago this month, the composer fused the pain of love with a rich musical form to craft the most enduring blues of all time.
  — John Edward Hasse, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• The band's residency, the first musical performance to take place in the Sphere, has been years in the making.
  — NBC news, 17 May 2023
• His big breakthrough came when he was cast as George Berger in Hair, the film based on the Broadway musical.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 13 June 2023
• The event, which runs through Monday, helps Naperville bid adieu to summer with rides, musical acts and all the fried food your heart desires.
  — Giles Bruce, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• This small team of players would go on to change the course of musical history, creating the sound of the 70’s and all that came after.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 20 June 2023
• In the evenings, tourists and locals alike funnel into The Cape Playhouse for a hit musical or a new drama.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2023
• Cage named Waits his musical hero in a 2010 interview with NME.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
• Gillis will be making his hosting debut in the upcoming episode, while 21 Savage will take the stage as the musical guest for the first time.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
• The album was conceived before the 2023 death of Tina Turner, one of her musical mothers.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 9 Apr. 2024
• The musical film could add $12 million to $14 million in its sophomore outing.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• While the sounds and the faces may be fresh, these artists are heirs of a musical tradition that has long attracted controversy.
  — Elda Cantú, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• The rest of the show plays out in two strands, like a pair of friends singing in tight thirds: in the present, there’s the recording project; in Omara’s youth there’s so much trouble, so much musical and political ferment.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• But that was followed by 16 years in the wilderness, as Mr. Goldman tried and failed to mount another musical, this one set during the Civil War.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• The procession ends at Dorchester’s Franklin Park, with a range of vendors and more musical performances.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• Dwight’s musical prowess touched countless lives, leaving an indelible mark on the hearts of many.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023
• The writers strike left the storied awards show honoring the best of musical theater and plays to rely on spontaneity in a new venue far from the theater district.
  — CBS News, 11 June 2023
• But Swift’s production ups the ante, using every muscle to create worlds-within-worlds as the show moves through its musical moods.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2023
• He’s been making history, creating some of the biggest musical moments of the last 30 years.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2024
• And perhaps, outside of his musical pursuits, Bernstein was no Brahms.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
• Tina Fey, who co-wrote the original film and the subsequent stage musical, reprises her role as math teacher Ms. Norbury.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Even horror sequel Alan Wake 2 indulged in a deeply kitschy musical segment.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 18 Dec. 2023
• During their official musical guest appearance on the late-night show, Heart performed a more biting record.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2024

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musical

2 of 2 noun

• That’s a great match for the way musicals can change on a dime.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• White actors were cast in 80% of the lead roles in musicals and 90% of the lead roles in plays.
  — Glenn Gamboa, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• Well, there will soon be a new musical on the whole affair.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• The first series of six episodes had fun with the songs and cliches of classic musicals prior to the 1960s.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• There are straight plays, Glenn explains to him, and then there are musicals.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• In 2022, the family of four checked out MJ the musical on Broadway.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 18 June 2023
• In some ways, the winners were Broadway’s musicals, which were given the job of filling the content void and rose to the task.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2023
• The musical doesn’t stint on head-bashing, but the viciousness is mostly on the surface — at least for the Greasers.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• Of those new shows, 15 were musicals and 24 were plays, according to the Broadway League.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 24 May 2023
• A lot of that really did come from my dance background and my love of musicals.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• My mom showed me all the Golden Age movies and Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 9 May 2023
• Michael has played many roles in both plays and musicals throughout his high school career.
  — Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
• And now her tunes have been fashioned into a musical about her life, art and activism.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Fans and Broadway lovers have asked for years when McDonald would return to the stage for a new musical.
  — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2023
• But musicals have not been part of his repertoire, until now.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Now, The Notebook is leaping off the page and onto the stage in a poignant new musical that is, without a doubt, its finest adaptation yet.
  — EW.com, 14 Mar. 2024
• Is the denouement the most blasphemous in the history of movie musicals?
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• At the same time, musicals were increasingly sourced from films.
  — Hanna Zakharenko, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• Performances of the hit musical by Alan Janes (book), with lyrics and music by Buddy Holly and others, are 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
  — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2023
• Cynthia Erivo thinks that breaking Wicked into two films has changed the musical for good.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
• In fact, according to the Washington Post, Levitt and his wife, Mimi, used to host musicals at this very townhouse.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
• Like the emotive stage musicals from which the series descends, there’s a hook that distinguishes it.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• The rock musical closes out the Aurora theater’s Broadway series and runs April 12 to June 4.
  — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023
• As for the future: Lloyd Webber is trying to figure out what his next musical might be, after nearly two dozen of them.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• The plays and musicals were short, the players nimble, often performing several roles in one show and doubling as the crew.
  — Daniel E. Slotnik, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Its last foray into movie musicals was the ultra-glossy and high-concept The Greatest Showman.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2023
• And a little bit of Brushing up on current Broadway musicals.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 3 Nov. 2023
• To take on two demanding — and quite different — lead roles in a pair of big musicals back to back must have been a pressure-cooker of a challenge, but Shimizu has pulled it off.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2023
• The musical has key touchpoints that call back to Keys early life, like visiting Broadway shows with her mother.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Dec. 2023
• The campy film’s cult following has driven its cultural impact as one of the most beloved musicals of the 20th century.
  — Isabela Espadas Barros Leal, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024