musicalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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How to musicalize such a state of transition?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
If you’re going to musicalize a horror movie, “Teeth” is a doozy, and a gamble.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
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
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
It has been modernized, musicalized, performed by puppets and adapted to Kabuki.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2019
Mr. Heller considered himself virtually a sixth member of the group, once saying, “Eazy conceptualized, Dre musicalized, I financialized and Cube verbalized.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2016
"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
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 Ashley H. Thorndike
“We’ve spent the past three years musicalizing the Warriors’ journey home, from the South Bronx to Coney Island,” Miranda and Davis said in a joint statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare production is not the first to struggle with such problems in musicalizing “Love’s Labor’s Lost.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
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
Rachel Chavkin, the company’s artistic director, recently spoke with ArtsBeat about American myths, Vegas iconography and musicalizing capitalism.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2012
But if musicalizing Sunset Boulevard does not detract, it does not add much either.
From Time Magazine Archive
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