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Musical comedy   /mjˈuzɪkəl kˈɑmədi/   Listen
Musical comedy

noun
1.
A play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing.  Synonyms: musical, musical theater.





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"Musical comedy" Quotes from Famous Books



... drawings of cartoonists are anatomically incorrect, we are smilingly indulgent. Do we condemn a vaudeville skit for not conforming to the Aristotelian code of dramatic technique? Assuredly we do not rise in disgust from a musical comedy because "in real life" a bevy of shapely maidens in scant attire never goes tripping and singing blithely though the streets. If then we can establish that Plautus regarded his adapted dramas merely as a rack on which to hang witticisms, merely as a medium for laugh-provoking sallies and ...
— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • Wilton Wallace Blancke
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... hurrah, hurrah.' Therefore I ducked the request to exhibit my art. I was going home after the show—I mean entertainment—and Waldo, the fellow I went with before I got sense enough to blow the burg with a musical comedy—Waldo started to walk home with me. I will say this much for Waldo before I go any further, he has a good eye for the future, even though he is ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
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... by scores and dozens; it is to see it in battalias and acres, and all of them meeting your eyes with the frank open gaze of the West. San Francisco is, I fancy, the only city on the globe where any musical comedy audience is always more beautiful than any musical comedy chorus. They are ...
— The Californiacs • Inez Haynes Irwin
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Words linked to "Musical comedy" :   flick, film, picture, picture show, pic, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, play, moving picture


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