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Recent Examples of musical comedy
This musical comedy begins with a small town that's beloved corn is dying.
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Alex Golden, Axios, 3 Nov. 2024
This 53-minute musical comedy follows Gonzo's spooky night in the Haunted Mansion, accompanied by fellow beloved Muppets characters like Kermit and Pepé the King Prawn.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
Ghost of John McCain, the Off Broadway musical comedy that sent Meghan McCain into a summer-long pre-opening tizzy, has arrived after months of free publicity.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
Few people can nail theatrical musical comedy, with an emphasis on the comedy, like Megan Hilty.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
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Alex Golden, Axios, 3 Nov. 2024
This 53-minute musical comedy follows Gonzo's spooky night in the Haunted Mansion, accompanied by fellow beloved Muppets characters like Kermit and Pepé the King Prawn.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
Ghost of John McCain, the Off Broadway musical comedy that sent Meghan McCain into a summer-long pre-opening tizzy, has arrived after months of free publicity.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
Few people can nail theatrical musical comedy, with an emphasis on the comedy, like Megan Hilty.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical comedy
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Longoria played Gaby Solis on the comedy drama from 2004 to 2012.Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 4 Dec. 2024
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Discovery global streaming chief JB Perrette, the third season of HBO's award-winning comedy drama will air on Max in February, 2026.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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The beloved comedy, also starring Zooey Deschanel, Bob Newhart and James Caan, tells the story of a human, raised by elves, who eventually outgrows the North Pole.Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Sight gags baked into the production design (the books the Gromit reads or the signs that populate the sets) and gnome puns aplenty make for a ride in which every frame packs a dense layer of comedy, at times conspicuous, others not so much.Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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In director Jamie Lloyd’s electric and minimalist Broadway update of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1990s musical based on a ‘50s movie, the former Pussycat Doll nails the comedy of a camp diva — inhabiting former ingenue Norma’s delusion and ego without ever losing sight of her sincerity.EW Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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While many shows saw their grosses fall from last week, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical had the highest gross of its run so far – a promising sign for a new musical in a tough environment – bringing in $719,680 and playing to a capacity of 83 percent.Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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Simplistic binaries might make for powerful melodrama, where the world is divided into good and evil.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Like Water for Chocolate is a melodrama in the best possible sense of the word—a larger-than-life historical epic of love and lust, birth and death, duty and destiny.Judy Berman, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
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If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
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The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
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Here is where the films of Mike Leigh, a master of human tragedy and everyday comedy, land on a scale of tragic-comic circumstances.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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This monumental tragedy about today and tomorrow used its size and awe to burrow bold ideas into the multiplex.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Barney, as is often the case, reveals unexpected refinement, directing a black-and-white psychodrama about his alcoholism, but Homer, who’s on the judging panel, prefers the one with the football in the groin.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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Performing an intense psychodrama about your wife’s family, night after night, must be gruelling.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Musical comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical%20comedy. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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