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Recent Examples of musical comedy
In 2020, DeBose played one of the leads in Ryan Murphy's Netflix adaptation of the Broadway musical The Prom, and in 2021, starred in the Apple TV+ musical comedy series Schmigadoon!.
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Dave Quinn, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025
This musical comedy begins with a small town that's beloved corn is dying.
—Alex Golden, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
The musical comedy features the country music singer appearing like a fairy godmother to give life lessons in song to a stricken fan.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
Airing on Nickelodeon from 2010 to 2013 for four seasons, the musical comedy series followed Tori Vega (Justice) navigating her teen years at a performing arts high school with her friends and sister (Monet) by her side.
—Dory Jackson, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025
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Dave Quinn, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025
This musical comedy begins with a small town that's beloved corn is dying.
—Alex Golden, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
The musical comedy features the country music singer appearing like a fairy godmother to give life lessons in song to a stricken fan.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
Airing on Nickelodeon from 2010 to 2013 for four seasons, the musical comedy series followed Tori Vega (Justice) navigating her teen years at a performing arts high school with her friends and sister (Monet) by her side.
—Dory Jackson, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical comedy
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Julie Delpy’s French comedy drama film follows the story of Brittany’s Town, which has unanimously decided to accept Ukrainian refugees in exchange for government subsidies.—
Katcy Stephan,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2025
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Avengers filmmakers Anthony and Joe Russo helm this sci-fi action comedy drama that stars Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt and Ke Huy Quan.—
Abid Rahman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Mar. 2025
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He will next be seen in the British comedy horror film The Scurry.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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And as their characters get pulled deeper into the criminal underworld, the comedy heightens in direct proportion to the violence.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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The Basics On the original Smash, the Marilyn musical is called Bombshell.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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Life imitated art on the set of The Sound of Music, the beloved musical that debuted in movie theaters on March 2, 1965.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
26 Feb. 2025
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There was a lot of love for The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s extraordinary shout-out to both 1950s wide-screen melodramas and 1970s moody epics, which was not a surprise.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Feb. 2025
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The film teases a will-they-or-won’t-they frisson about the two, and occasionally taps a lush score that wafts in the romantic melancholy of a 1960s American melodrama (making one wonder if the score from May December is starting to have its first, unironic imitations).—
Nicolas Rapold,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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Alas, Godwin’s gentle take on the tragicomedy misses the explosive nature of this moment, the desperation these characters feel to change their fate right now or live and die steeped in stifling ennui.—
Karen D'Souza,
The Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2025
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The tragicomedy follows a grieving widower who sets off on an epic quest to find the truth about a mysterious photo left behind by his deceased wife.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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In the first section of the book, Franklin repeatedly brings historical analysis, primary sources and Anne Frank’s writing into juxtaposition with each other in a way that both illuminates Anne Frank as an individual and the larger tragedy of the Holocaust.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2025
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The case was the first to establish a link between toxic waste in the atmosphere and birth defects, and the show follows the story of four mothers dealing with the tragedy.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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About Town Indie Rock As Father John Misty, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Tillman stages albums as little psychodramas.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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The thought that Sam Riley’s Tom might turn out to be Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity or John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice is tantalizing but gradually appears to be more like teasing misdirection as the movie shifts into psychodrama gear.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Musical comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical%20comedy. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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