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  • noun informal A particularly elaborate or successful musical.

Etymologies

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mega- +‎ musical

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Examples

  • Protests by Asian performers led to the recent banning, then unbanning, by Actors 'Equity of British star Jonathan Pryce, who plays a Eurasian in the New York-bound megamusical "Miss Saigon."

    Gershwin From Hamptons To Harlem 2008

  • Earlier this month, Oliver Stone became the latest director in the last 16 years to depart the project of putting the 1978 megamusical on screen.

    Hasta La Vista, Baby 2008

  • Earlier this month, Oliver Stone became the latest director in the last 16 years to depart the project of putting the 1978 megamusical on screen.

    Hasta La Vista, Baby 2008

  • Disney's megamusical may be a tale as old as time, but you haven't seen it till you've seen it this time.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Disney's megamusical may be a tale as old as time, but you haven't seen it till you've seen it this time.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Bennett was going to go all technological, Nunn treated it like a typical megamusical and in its most recent production, Eric Schaeffer at Washington, D.C.'s

    Thestar.com - Home Page Richard Ouzounian 2010

  • Spider-Man megamusical, Donny and Marie Osmond are upping their game.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Bennett was going to go all technological, Nunn treated it like a typical megamusical and in its most recent production, Eric Schaeffer at Washington, D.C.'s

    Thestar.com - Home Page Richard Ouzounian 2010

  • Actually, we were in a rehearsal studio on Eighth Avenue auditioning dancers for our forthcoming megamusical "Memphis" (coming this fall to a really cool Broadway theatre which I can't mention to you or I'll be killed.)

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2009

  • You hardly miss it in Signature Theatre's emotive, blood-and-guts staging of the megamusical ...

    The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2009

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