Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A comedic play or movie in which dialogue is interspersed with songs, especially one with a focus on musical numbers and a simple plot.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing
Examples
“I knew he was old, for his voice was cracked and thin, but of great sweetness, and he sang an aria from a musical comedy which was popular then, called "The Joy of Life.”
“The musical comedy Irene featured a song called "Alice Blue Gown," shops marketed gray-blue fabric, hats, and hair ribbons, and hundreds of babies were named Alice and dressed not in the traditional pink but in Alice blue.”
“The play was the musical comedy Ben Bolt, and there was lots of tripping over chairs and mistaken identity.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘musical comedy’.
-
Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
-
Panvocalic phrases
Phrases or words that are not mononyms (being hyphenated or two or more words), that contain all the vowels once, "y" optional. For phrases with some or all of the words capitalized see Panvocalic ...
did a number on, computer graphics, consenting adult, personality cult, fountain pen, main course, majority rule, shuttle diplomacy, trailer court, wave function, watering trough, zygomatic muscle and 407 more...
-
Let's Go To the Movies
Film genres. Also see film--1 by bradleyrturner.
silent, talkie, drama, coming-of-age, comedy, black comedy, buddy movie, slapstick, romance, romcom, tearjerker, period piece and 44 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for musical comedy.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.