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Recent Examples of musical
Adjective
Both Martin and Short were nominated for best performance by an actor in a television series – musical or comedy. Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024 The musical directed by Jon M. Chu took in $114 million in its opening domestic weekend and has so far earned $320 million, with an additional $135 million internationally, for a worldwide gross of $455 million. Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
The big-budget musical added $26 million from 79 international markets, including openings in France with $2 million and Netherlands with $1.9 million. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Dec. 2024 The blockbuster musical received a boost in the awards race on Wednesday after the National Board of Review named it the best movie of 2024. Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for musical 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical
Adjective
  • The Symphony aspires to perform live symphonic music of excellence, beauty, and vitality at a consistently high level.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Dudamel led children into the depths of a symphony in which Shostakovich sought a symphonic road map for surviving Joseph Stalin’s political oppression.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The writers behind some of this year’s hottest comedy series took on Variety’s A Night in the Writers Room: Awards Season Edition to discuss the landscape of laughter on TV.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The singer’s 50-minute segment, A Nonsense Christmas With Sabrina Carpenter, streaming as of the evening of Friday, Dec. 6 contained several familiar faces, both musically and in the comedy and acting worlds.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Now his Pulitzer winner, Nickel Boys, has been turned into an equally uncompromising yet at times surprisingly lyrical film directed by RaMell Ross.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
  • But man, One Hundred Years of Solitude is breathlessly beautiful at times, lyrical and alive and brimming with visual and intellectual ideas.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Simplistic binaries might make for powerful melodrama, where the world is divided into good and evil.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Like Water for Chocolate is a melodrama in the best possible sense of the word—a larger-than-life historical epic of love and lust, birth and death, duty and destiny.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Dance sections lacked charm; lyric passages were spiritless; the klezmer episodes in the third movement were strictly goyish.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Kelce’s first reaction to the lyric switch-up was caught in a video posted by a fan on TikTok.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The musical comedy, based on the popular Apple TV+ series, will open in January at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Two days before Hilty and Simard opened the best new musical comedies in ages, Vogue sat down with them at the cavernous Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to discuss camp, spookiness, and their paths to Death Becomes Her.
    Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The psychodrama is naked — sometimes hard to read, at other moments approaching farce.
    New York Times, New York Times, 8 July 2024
  • Gaga would be seen as a key component of what Phillips wants to do with this sequel as well, in terms of integrating old-fashioned musical numbers into the psychodrama.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024

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