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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
musical comedy
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bill started acting in musical comedy.
▪ Captain McArthur was a musical comedy aficionado, and not pleased when Mrs Kingswood spoke critically of the form.
▪ My dream is to direct a musical comedy one day.
▪ The daughter of a famous musical comedy actress would scarcely fit in.
WordNet
musical comedy

n. a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing [syn: musical, musical theater]

Usage examples of "musical comedy".

At the Sunshine Summer Theater, his baby, he introduced the shows, directed the shows, and somehow managed to convert an unruly, moderately talented group of stagestruck young kids into a functioning repertory company that delivered a different musical comedy every week.

I don't say musical comedy is a very lofty form of art, but still there's a certain amount of science about it.

I remember hearing from you late in the summer that your novel Cat's Cradle is going to be made into a musical comedy, which startled me a bit.

The spanking new paint everywhere, the clipped lawns, the lush flower beds, the fine sports fields and children's playgrounds, together with the artistic performances and the well-dressed Jews playacting vacationers at a happy peacetime spa, all add up to a musical comedy in the open air, utterly unreal.

She was like a girl in a musical comedy who seems forever about to burst into song -- though she never did so.

He would have had a terrible time making the romantic lead in a musical comedy.

He said you were never to be seen without dozens of girls around you, like the hero of a musical comedy.