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musical

[myoo-zi-kuhl] / ˈmju zɪ kəl /


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That gender-swap, delivered with musical contrition, was pure irony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Dangerfield likens the four to musical superheroes from a Marvel series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“I’m like Mister Fantastic and Donald’s my Invisible Woman. Xelan’s the Thing, and Percy is John Storm,” he says of his partners in musical mischief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

While playing on more than 200 recordings, he helped to both diligently shape and liberally loosen modern jazz’s contours, instigating or supporting quite a few moments of innovation across generations and musical movements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The musical sneakers—bright yellow and slightly curved—were one of Mr. Lemoncello’s biggest hits over the holidays.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

Only if a new generation of artists walks away from the old-hit-movie-into-stale-new-stage-show model and starts creating musicals that are conceptually more ambitious.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

A return to industrial musicals in the age of A.I. didn’t strike me as a solution for all the woes afflicting the performing arts, from pricey tickets to the increasingly blatant corporatization of the arts.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

Theatre-lover Kirsty O'Donnell was a regular visitor to the West End to enjoy musicals and plays.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

As modern musicals go, this is a low-key affair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Plays and musicals that Volpe puts into production are often already familiar to his students because they have studied them in class.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove


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