Sentence examples for bittersweet musical from inspiring English sources

"Havana Under the Sea" is a bittersweet musical homage to the eroded Cuban capital.

It's a song cycle that turns 18 epitaphs from "Spoon River Anthology," the classic turn-of-the-century graveyard tour by Edgar Lee Masters, into a bittersweet musical stream.

One of the enduring attractions of the French New Wave is what is now thought of as Jacques Demy's seaside trilogy – three bittersweet musical films on the themes of love, loss and life not turning out the way you expect it to, all with recurring characters and taking place in ports on the Atlantic coast.

The New York Times called it, "A bittersweet musical about aging and desire... a deeper examination of love and loyalty among people over 60".

NEW YORK (The Associated Press) — The bittersweet romantic musical "Once" has won the best musical prize at the Tony Awards.

The bittersweet romantic musical "Once" was the unexpectedly dominant winner at the 66th annual Tony Awards on Sunday night, winning best musical, best actor, and six other Tonys, in a highly competitive year for Broadway honors.

The romantically bittersweet Broadway musical "Once" found plenty of love at the Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, receiving the most — 11 — in a year when the Tonys paid attention to more shows than usual and set up exceptionally competitive races for best play and in several acting categories.

It's these scenes that link Vigo's work to that of his most obvious heir, Jacques Demy, the director of the great bittersweet 60's musicals "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "The Young Girls of Rochefort".

She will be typecast when, for the first time in 54 years, she appears on a Broadway stage in "Follies," playing Heidi Schiller, the oldest of the "girls" gathering for a bittersweet reunion in the musical drama with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman.

Is that the salty air of Marseille stinging your eyes, or the bittersweet finale of the musical "Fanny," which arrives at an improbably happy climax even as one of its central characters succumbs to death?

But his stock had plummeted with the release in 1977 of New York, New York; a big-budget, bittersweet homage to Hollywood musicals that alienated most of its meagre audiences.