How to Use musical comedy in a Sentence

musical comedy

noun
  • The musical comedy is adapted from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
  • This feel-good musical comedy smash is based on the hit film.
    Cindy Kent, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Born in the Bronx in 1931, New York, Chianese got his start in musical comedy on stage.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Bobin made a name for himself as one of the creators of the musical comedy series Flight of the Conchords.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Set in Paris in the 1930s, the show is a gender-bending musical comedy with themes that resonate with today’s times.
    Pomerado News, 18 Sep. 2019
  • For background, Julianne starred in the 2012 musical comedy Rock of Ages based on the Broadway musical of the same name.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Broadway in Portland is back with the first national tour of the record-breaking musical comedy based on the hit film.
    oregonlive, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Rivera’s disappearance is the third major tragedy to befall the cast of the cheery musical comedy.
    Washington Post, 10 July 2020
  • Season 3 of the musical comedy series is set to premiere on the streamer March 14, with all six episodes dropping that day.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • On July 31, just after the second round, the contest will host the musical comedy duo of Igudesman & Joo.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 9 Feb. 2020
  • When the success of the Fox musical comedy led to a concert tour in 2010, things escalated.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2022
  • This musical comedy-drama is an adaptation of the 1964 Broadway show by the same name.
    Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 14 Oct. 2022
  • With so many stuck at home doom-scrolling, there was unslakable need for his brand of musical comedy relief.
    Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • Her first major film was the 1962 musical comedy Girls!
    Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • When Kai was less than 3 months old, her mom began filming the hit musical comedy film Pitch Perfect.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Adam Devine reprises his role from the musical comedy franchise in this new spinoff series.
    cleveland, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The Musical is a brand-new musical comedy featuring the beloved characters and hit songs from the films.
    Amanda Kondolojy, Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2022
  • In this musical comedy, two rebellious teens, Maria and Susana, spend their summer at a Catholic camp run by nuns.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2022
  • Rivera played Santana Lopez, a cheerleader and star glee club member, on the musical comedy Glee.
    Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2020
  • According to Netflix, the musical comedy, which is released Tuesday, tells the story of the last year of elementary school through the eyes of the school’s class lizard called Leo.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The Bonitafest Melodrama is a musical comedy this year, based on the real-life events of the 1980s involving a local reporter and a meat scandal.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The actors look for ways to communicate emotion in a musical comedy when smiles and frowns can’t be seen behind masks.
    Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Michelle Yeoh won for best actress in a musical comedy, while Ke Huy Quan won for best supporting actor.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Tom Smothers, one half of the musical comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, has died at the age of 86, following a recent battle with cancer.
    Vulture, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The scene was a joyous reminder of Mr. Morse’s flair for musical comedy, even if some of his fellow cast members were unaware of his earlier work.
    Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • This musical comedy, about the life and times of Fanny Brice, has undergone its very first revival more than 50 years after its debut.
    Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • As the son of 1980s Christian-rock singers, Moore was practically born for musical comedy.
    Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Abraham, whose favorite movie happens to be Black’s 2003 musical comedy School of Rock.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The teen musical comedy’s upcoming fourth season will be its last on Disney+.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 21 June 2023
  • But Prince carefully paced the intrusion of the show’s darker themes into the musical comedy.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021

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