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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.


Other Word Forms


Etymology

Origin of musicalize

First recorded in 1915–20; musical + -ize


Example Sentences

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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

Castellucci has the spoken prologue of “Bluebeard,” a cameo role called the Bard, given with a declamatory grandeur that later matches the musicalized speech of the “Comoedia.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

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

Who else has musicalized, for adults, cats and phantoms and trains, plus saviors and a dictatorial first lady?

From Washington Post ● Dec. 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

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

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

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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