Musical comedy
DEFINITION
A genre of musical entertainment popular in the 20th century that derived from the comic opera. It consists of a play, usually with written dialogue, interspersed with songs. This form of entertainment is essentially a musical, which is not necessarily comic.a type of play with music, similar to operetta, with catchy tunes and a comic and romantic storyline, popular in Britain and the U.S. in the late 19th-and early 20th-centuries. Chu Chin Chow was one of the most successful