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musicalize

American  
[myoo-zi-kuh-lahyz] / ˈmju zɪ kəˌlaɪz /
especially British, musicalise

verb (used with object)

musicalized, musicalizing
  1. to write or produce a musical version of (a book, play, etc.).

    an attempt to musicalize one of Shakespeare's comedies.


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Etymology

Origin of musicalize

First recorded in 1915–20; musical + -ize


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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

“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

She loved how Aucoin musicalized the pain of the story, but also its humor.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021

“When I was 17, I rewrote the songs for a musicalized version of ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’” Mr. Minchin said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017

"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

Kamen, at first, had been less than keen on musicalizing his signature franchise.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

Preparing the text has been a process of “distillation, musicalizing some phrasings and versifying some lines.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2020

Even while musicalizing Shakespeare for the Public Theater, she is writing her own show, about the women’s suffrage movement, backed by one of the lead producers of “Hamilton.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 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

But if musicalizing Sunset Boulevard does not detract, it does not add much either.

From Time Magazine Archive

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