musical comedy

noun

Definition of musical comedynext
as in comedy drama

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Recent Examples of musical comedy Jesse Eisenberg’s musical comedy The Debut, starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti, has been announced as the closing film of the BFI London Film Festival in October. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026 Her breakout role came in the musical comedy The Girl Can’t Help It in 1956, which earned her her first Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 3 Aug. 2026 The claim and counterclaim are among serious allegations – including of smear campaigns and embezzlement – aired in multiple court cases now swirling around the production of the Australian musical comedy. — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 22 July 2026 Jinkx continued building her career after her first win, going on to star in productions of Hairspray and the musical comedy The Vaudevillians. — Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for musical comedy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical comedy
  1. comedy drama
  2. comedy
  3. musical
  4. melodrama
  5. tragicomedy
  6. tragedy
  7. psychodrama
Noun
  • Sam Leifer, who stops by the interview with his brother, has several new project irons in the fire including a YA comedy drama for a streamer and a big Love Actually-style Christmas movie featuring a screenplay by Simon Blackwell.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 July 2026
  • The comedy drama, co-created by Danielle Sanchez Witzel and based on Buteau’s memoir of the same name, premiered its first season in 2023.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
Definition of comedy drama
Noun
  • Screwball comedies, dark horror flicks and so much more await in this weekend’s edition of your friendly neighborhood streaming guide.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The comedian and actor spoke candidly about his health scare in a 2024 Netflix comedy special, What Had Happened Was.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of comedy
Noun
  • The film follows a shy woman who is unexpectedly cast in a local production of an original musical.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
  • This rebellious new musical is about growing up, discovering yourself, and refusing to live by others’ expectations.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of musical
Noun
  • But Rossellini and Visconti, the latter a scion of the country’s aristocratic theater and opera traditions, also mined melodrama, historical epics, and more expressionist genres of filmmaking.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Many of today’s independent cinemas are being curated by a generation that grew up without theatrical access to Hong Kong action cinema, Filipino melodrama, or Taiwanese New Cinema.
    — José Salazar, IndieWire, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of melodrama
Noun
  • Carys made her professional stage debut in June, playing Nina in Anton Chekhov’s tragicomedy The Seagull in Brooklyn.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
  • That’s what appears to be the case with Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who first met in 1992 on the set of romantic tragicomedy Jamón Jamón.
    — Alessandra De Tommasi, Vanity Fair, 5 July 2026
Definition of tragicomedy
Noun
  • The accident was one of the Portuguese capital’s worst tragedies in recent memory and cast a shadow over the city’s ongoing tourism boom.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
  • These days, the existential challenges faced by newspapers across the country sound more like a Shakespearean tragedy than a comedy.
    — Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of tragedy
Noun
  • Inspired in equal parts by Italian giallo horror flicks and American slasher flicks, the behind-the-scenes psychodrama stars Cotillard as a deathly ill scream queen shooting a sci-fi art film in Rome in 1982 who starts to go out of her mind.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Early loves his creation, enough to spin an entire psychodrama around her, one that will bring her high and low.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
Definition of psychodrama

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