musicalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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How to musicalize such a state of transition?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
More than 30 years into a convention-shattering career, Sondheim still raised eyebrows when he announced he was about to musicalize the likes of John Hinckley Jr. and John Wilkes Booth.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2021
“But in Sarah’s play, Orpheus is a normal dude, a pretty immature one, and not super communicative — a frustrating boyfriend. I wanted to musicalize both his doubleness and that there’s something Eurydice can’t see.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2020
Because in Musical Theater Writing 101, they say, “Only musicalize something if the piece demands to be a musical.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2018
“It is unusual to take such a large brand franchise and not musicalize it,” acknowledged Sonia Friedman, who, with Colin Callender, has produced the play in London and New York.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2018
Gallagher spent much of what would have been his prime college years — from 20 to 23 — starring in the original, envelop-pushing Broadway show that musicalized teen angst.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2022
Who else has musicalized, for adults, cats and phantoms and trains, plus saviors and a dictatorial first lady?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2014
"Allegro" tells, in a musicalized "Our Town" manner, the story of a doctor's son from birth through medical school to adult disillusionment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2014
Asked what she first thought about a musicalized “Rocky,” Ms. Ahrens replied, “Honestly?”
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2012
He popularized, vulgarized, and musicalized the great traditions of English tragedy, and passed them along to the nineteenth century as the possession of the illegitimate drama.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
Kamen, at first, had been less than keen on musicalizing his signature franchise.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
In musicalizing Lynn Nottage’s play of the same title, Ricky Ian Gordon, working with a text by Nottage herself, wants more for Esther than a quick dance and a slick tune.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
Some of the lines are genuine LBJ, but “the bulk of the language here is mine,” the playwright says, his native Texas twang musicalizing the conversation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2016
It helps that Frank and Boeck are well matched, with Frank beautifully embodying Wendla's anguished vulnerability and Boeck sweetly musicalizing her tender spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2015
But if musicalizing Sunset Boulevard does not detract, it does not add much either.
From Time Magazine Archive
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