musical_comedy
has definitions from the fields of music,fine art,theater,performing arts
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[ noun ] (music,fine art,theater,performing arts) a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing
Synonyms Used in print (The Providence Journal...)One of the finest soft_shoe tunes ever invented , `` Once_in_Love_with_Amy '' is also , of_course , one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love_lyrics to come_out of American musical_comedy in our era . Berman , whose fame has rested in recent years on his skills as a night_club monologist , proved himself very much at_home in musical_comedy . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink , and said , `` I admit that going back to Ralph_Waldo_Emerson for humor is like going_to a modern musical_comedy for music and comedy '' . |
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