Definition of Musical comedy

1. Noun. A play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Musical Comedy

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musical comedy (current term)
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Literary usage of Musical comedy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"Two to One,' a three-act musical comedy, also written in Aberdeen, was sent to London and accepted by the elder Colman. It was not acted, however, ..."

2. Another Book on the Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1915)
"FIGLEAVES FROM THE BOOK OF musical comedy THERE is, in America, a group of men containing such familiar programme names as Ned Wayburn, RH Burnside, ..."

3. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Benjamin Vincent, Joseph Haydn (1906)
"1904; The Talk of the Twi'ii, musical comedy, by S. Hicks, 5 Jan.- Moon, musical play, by Harold Ellis and WM 15 April, 1905 ; Her Own ..."

4. The Story of Opera by Ernest Markham Lee (1909)
"Operetta — musical comedy — Ballad opera— Masque — Ballet — Objections thereto — Curiosities of construction — Pasticcio — Mixed language — Stereotyped ..."

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