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as in melodic
having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music
the musical sounds of the babbling brook
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as in symphonic
having a pleasing mixture of notes
the song of the skylark has been celebrated for being especially musical
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as in comedy
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Recent Examples of musical
Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2025
The musical reopened at New York’s Grand Opera House in 1904 following a successful tour of Great Britain.
—Franz Martin, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2025
Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 26 Jan. 2025
Created by English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who based his beloved musical on Gaston Leroux’s novel of the same name, Phantom is the story of a gifted soprano, Christine Daaé.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2025
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Unfortunately, Lin-Manuel Miranda didn’t return to provide the bops for this sequel to the beloved 2016 Disney musical.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2025
The musical reopened at New York’s Grand Opera House in 1904 following a successful tour of Great Britain.
—Franz Martin, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2025
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Both musicals are adaptations of fairy tales: the former of Hans Christian Andersen’s Danish fairy tale, the latter of L. Frank Baum’s American fairy tale, The Wizard of Oz.
—Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 26 Jan. 2025
Created by English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who based his beloved musical on Gaston Leroux’s novel of the same name, Phantom is the story of a gifted soprano, Christine Daaé.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2025
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Upstairs, Elsesser’s serene, hotel-like sleeping quarters lead to the crown jewel: a bathroom to rival all bathrooms, where marble, mirror, and walnut paneling combine to symphonic effect.—
Hannah Martin,
Architectural Digest,
16 Jan. 2025
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Acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota explicitly designed the 1,600 capacity Helzberg Hall for symphonic music, the Kauffman Center website says.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2025
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Netflix has unveiled its 2025 Australian content lineup, featuring three new productions spanning mystery, comedy and social commentary.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2025
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Dark comedy Fabula, by Dutch director Michiel ten Horn, about a provincial criminal grappling with personal and professional failures, will open the festival, the first Dutch movie to do so since 2018.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
30 Jan. 2025
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The slow-rolling single with skittering drum machine beats mashed against both mens’ drawling vocals is of a piece with Jelly’s frequent lyrical focus on mental health and his battles with substance use.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
24 Jan. 2025
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Another music star who has been rumored to possibly appear during Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show is Lil Wayne, as the two lyrical titans recently cleared the air regarding the drama surrounding Kendrick being selected over Weezy.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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Still, Dynevor and Ifans do their best to present these bursts of accidental melodrama in a straightforward manner.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2025
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During a run-through for one of the boat’s many melodramas, a Mississippi sheriff storms in, tipped off that Julie is secretly biracial.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2025
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His son, Myles Aronowitz, who played a key role in finding the lyric pages, said the discovery came after years of searching through family archives.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Jan. 2025
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As early as 1992, MacColl was performing the song with the same lyric change.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
22 Dec. 2024
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In the international competition, Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot took home the 50,000 Swedish krona ($4,500) prize for his tragicomedy Memoir of a Snail.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Feb. 2025
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Feldman’s specific style is hard to explain or neatly label though critics and viewers alike have tried to with terms like dramedy and tragicomedy.—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
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The cast of Sing Sing will perform an off-Broadway rendition of the play Breaking the Mummy’s Code, a time-traveling musical comedy originally staged at Sing Sing correctional facility in 2005 and reenacted in the A24 film.—
Kalia Richardson,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2025
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The 54-year-old will become the first Supreme Court justice to make her Broadway debut, with a one-night-only walk-on role in the hit musical comedy & Juliet.—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
9 Dec. 2024
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The results are equal parts marital crisis, sins-of-the-father psychodrama and visceral body horror.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Jan. 2025
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Niemann himself sometimes seems like a method actor appearing in a psychodrama, whether by temperament or by a recognition that the mad villain is the only decent role available to him now.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2025
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“Musical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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