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Recent Examples of musical comedy
Kiss Me, Kate stars Tony Award winner Stephanie J. Block in her West End debut as Lilli Vanessi in Cole Porter’s legendary musical comedy.
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Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
The 33-year-old writer-director-comedian, who earned a loyal social following for pandemic-era Instagram impressions, makes the premise for his 17-track musical comedy album clear within its first 15 seconds.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 18 Apr. 2025
The goal of the musical comedy is to use satire to ask questions about how Mangione could become such a national figure and how institutions, including healthcare, tech, and Hollywood, are seen in the modern America, according to show-runners.
—Luke Gentile, The Washington Examiner, 2 May 2025
The romantic musical comedy Maybe Happy Ending is one of the biggest Broadway hits this season.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
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Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
The 33-year-old writer-director-comedian, who earned a loyal social following for pandemic-era Instagram impressions, makes the premise for his 17-track musical comedy album clear within its first 15 seconds.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 18 Apr. 2025
The goal of the musical comedy is to use satire to ask questions about how Mangione could become such a national figure and how institutions, including healthcare, tech, and Hollywood, are seen in the modern America, according to show-runners.
—Luke Gentile, The Washington Examiner, 2 May 2025
The romantic musical comedy Maybe Happy Ending is one of the biggest Broadway hits this season.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical comedy
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The 30-year-old, born and raised in Nantes, has starred in the likes of comedy drama series Greek Salad and drama film The Passengers of the Night.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2025
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The comedy drama scooped awards at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes.—
Clare Fisher,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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In the early 2000s, Brand was a rising star in the United Kingdom's comedy and media scene, working for the BBC and MTV.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
30 May 2025
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Kellett is a veteran television writer/producer and this 90-minute play has the look and feel of a TV comedy, with fast pacing, a steady flow of zinging one-liners, plenty of actor double-takes and eye rolls and a predictable happy ending.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
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Lee’s multi-faceted career has included appearing in musicals and plays as well as TV dramas and films.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Kara, Conrad, and Daniel, do either of you want to speak to the different uphill battle that straight plays face versus musicals in terms of getting audiences in?—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
28 May 2025
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Through four pilgrimages to the French Riviera in Stanley Donen’s time-hopping melodrama, Audrey Hepburn’s Joanna and Albert Finney’s Mark meet, fall in love, honeymoon and fall apart.—
Gráinne O'Hara Belluomo,
Footwear News,
26 May 2025
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In this wrenching melodrama from the director Saeed Roustaee, a widowed mother of two (Parinaz Izadyar) suffers an unspeakable loss—and responds by exacting a measure of justice from the many men who, through cruel entitlement or thoughtless neglect, have contributed to her grief.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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In Facility Theatre’s new revival of the Irish playwright’s absurdist tragicomedy, the blind and paralyzed character (played by artistic director Kirk Anderson) looks like a slightly steampunk Scrooge, writes Emily McClanathan.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2025
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The man who shuffled offstage last year in the middle of the play — an absurdist tragicomedy plagued by poor reviews and weak attendance — has shuffled back onto it.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
9 May 2025
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The narrative moves between Joan’s ascent through the ranks, including a love story as explosive as a rocket launch, and a mid-decade disaster reminiscent of the Challenger tragedy.—
Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2025
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Saar says the phrase refers to those seeking to export violence beyond the Middle East to places like America, making the D.C. shooting much more than a local tragedy.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2025
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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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The endless psychodrama surrounding the national team is merely a symptom of the chaos.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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“Musical comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical%20comedy. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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