How to Use music drama in a Sentence

music drama

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Perhaps it’s misplaced to crave an arc, a powerful a sense of thrust, or any of the traditional attributes of music drama.
    — An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Amazon Prime Video has unveiled a host of new faces for its upcoming music drama The Runarounds.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There's not a lot of volume this week, but quality is high, with the final season premiere of Hacks, a compelling Japanese music drama, and some very watchable movies.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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 duo recently announced their expansion into television and will executive produce a music drama in development at Freeform.
    — Krystal Rodriguez, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Samuel Barber’s even more opulent music drama by the same name opened the Met’s new house in 1966, with Price as the queen of queens, and is now remembered chiefly as a spectacular dud.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 13 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Figueroa has served as an executive story editor and staffed on series including Stumptown (ABC), Defiance (Syfy), and the Starz music drama, Step Up.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The ad comes off the heels of — but is seemingly not actually connected to — Song Sung Blue, the music drama about the tumultuous lives of Neil Diamond tribute musicians Mike (Hugh Jackman) and Claire Sardina (Kate Hudson), also known as Lightning and Thunder.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Feb. 2026

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