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
“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
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’s as if we were asked to know Hamlet from his soliloquies alone, for what are solo songs but musicalized soliloquies, encapsulated moments even when addressed to other characters?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
She loved how Aucoin musicalized the pain of the story, but also its humor.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021
If the movie were musicalized, the encounter might make a perfect “King and I”-style moment.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2015
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
Kamen, at first, had been less than keen on musicalizing his signature franchise.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
Jane Austen’s novels really “sing,” you might say, but some creative people aren’t content to leave that verb in its figurative state and set about musicalizing the stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2018
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
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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