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musicals

noun

plural of musical

as in comedies

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Recent Examples of musicals The school commissions Broadway writers to pen musicals for students each year and recently has added in a new summer musical, where commercial producers can workshop and develop shows. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026 Founded in 2007 by Gary and Erin Lewis, the company produces stage musicals year-round, as well as musical readings and youth drama education programs. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026 The performers in the touring casts of Broadway musicals often follow strikingly similar paths from high school to hit show — hours spent practicing show tunes with vocal coaches, years of dance classes, roles in a dozen amateur musical theater productions. — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025

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At a moment when historically reliable sources of employment for mid-career comedians—writing for sitcoms and late night, supporting roles in film comedies, commercials—all seem to be in crisis, the podcast business is comparatively lucrative.

— Dan Brooks, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
The show was one of just two comedies that NBC picked up for the 2026-2027 broadcast season.

— Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

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Music was how my mother—an opera singer, pianist, and educator—taught me to engage with the world.

— Hillary Richard, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
Seven female opera singers sustained long notes in succession, creating a collective mourning ritual for women lost to racialized and gendered violence.

— Thomas Rom, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026

Definition of opera

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Prime Minister Mark Carney called the blaze one of the worst peacetime tragedies to strike Canada's armed forces on home soil, according to Reuters.

— Stephen Sorace , Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
What happened to Gates is one of several tragedies involving postal workers in extreme Texas heat in recent years.

— Ginger Allen, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of tragedies

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