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Recent Examples of musicals
Because San Diego is one of the biggest creators of new plays and musicals in the United States, the new musical and play categories were the highlights of the evening.
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
The performers in the touring casts of Broadway musicals often follow strikingly similar paths from high school to hit show — hours spent practicing show tunes with vocal coaches, years of dance classes, roles in a dozen amateur musical theater productions.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
The performers in the touring casts of Broadway musicals often follow strikingly similar paths from high school to hit show — hours spent practicing show tunes with vocal coaches, years of dance classes, roles in a dozen amateur musical theater productions.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for musicals
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With such a sheer volume of work coming out, the anime market can get crowded, and its easy for these works to bleed together into a vague blob of gag comedies, action-adventure shows, and sickly-sweet romances.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
3 Apr. 2026
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Dramas and comedies have struggled to attract audiences.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Figaro Up, Figaro Down Director: Javid Soriano, Producers: Javid Soriano, Rob Richert (USA 2026, 75 min) Tim Blevins trained at Juilliard, enthralling opera fans with his baritone before losing it all to addiction and landing on the streets of San Francisco.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
1 Apr. 2026
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Returning from the dead, an aspiration devoutly to be wished by the living and the bereaved, permeates opera and theater.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Conrad said tragedies like the one that took Altman’s life remind him and other firefighters of the job’s danger.—
Madeline King,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Caroline, as an ambassador of her family’s dynasty, has to offer condolences while keeping a stiff upper lip, only able to work through the latest of many tragedies in her life internally.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Musicals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musicals. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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