How to Use music drama in a Sentence

music drama

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Definition of music dramanext
  • The order brings Star's season two total to 18 episodes -- the same as Daniels' other Fox music drama Empire.
    — Kate Stanhope, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Country music drama Monarch, which was slated to air this season, was also pushed to next season.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Apr. 2022
  • When a director empowers a composer to carry a film and not simply to tag along with it, a singular kind of music drama emerges.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2021
  • These musicians interweave themselves in the stage action of a play that behaves more like a musical — or music drama, to be more precise.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • But far from being a spinoff of a spinoff, Kevin Puts’s The Hours mixes musical freshness and venerable traditions in a fine and moving music drama.
    — Vulture, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The hit Fox music drama was supposed to have five more episodes to go in its final season, but like nearly every TV series and film, production was shut down due to the coronavirus breakout.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2020
  • That’s a lofty goal, particularly for a music drama that works through abstract, mostly wordless means.
    — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
  • However, as diehard fans will surely remember, the two actors already share an onscreen history, having starred together in the 2004 teen music drama Raise Your Voice.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In the end, after four episodes totaling 16 hours of music drama, with numerous touches of magic, there’s also redemptive sacrifice and cleansing.
    — Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Modern sitcoms can get so painfully serious, moving with self-conscious artfulness from laughs into mood-music drama.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Yet by coincidence, not one but two new music dramas about major 20th-century thinkers — two German-Jewish intellectuals who fled the Nazis — have their premieres in Germany this season.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2018
  • Fox music drama Empire returned on Wednesday night (March 13) from a mid-season hiatus with the usual compliment of plot twists, heated arguments, snitches dangled from windows and palace intrigue swirling around the Lyon family.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2019
  • The duo recently announced their expansion into television and will executive produce a music drama in development at Freeform.
    — Krystal Rodriguez, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2019
  • That reality lends topical resonance to the affecting music drama by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Greg Pierce.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • This Halloween weekend, Blanchett turns in an Oscar-worthy performance as an orchestra conductor navigating personal and professional obstacles in a classical music drama.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022

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