But in performances by the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, founded by Albert Bergeret in 1974, broad comedy and stylish singing carry the day.
The Coen Brothers have been justly lauded for this surreally stylish comedy, also starring John Goodman as a volatile Vietnam vet.
I have an idea for a futuristic political thriller science fiction space Western black comedy with a stylish film noir mood.
Two years later the Christmas premiere of Smiles Of A Summer Night - a stylish comedy of manners - changed Bergman's fortunes, proving an enormous critical and financial success and giving him the artistic freedom he needed.
Hardwicke returned to the Bristol Old Vic to play Astrov alongside O'Toole in Uncle Vanya in 1973, and to the West End in 1975, to the Haymarket theatre, in Frederick Lonsdale's stylish comedy On Approval, with former NT colleagues Geraldine McEwan and Edward Woodward.
A new film from Joel and Ethan Coen is always a hot ticket at Cannes, and Inside Lleywn Davies, a stylish comedy shot in muted tones and set in the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s, was among the festival's most anticipated screenings.
Naturally gifted, he was equally adept in farcical sitcom or stylish high comedy.
From its lovely Saul Bass-style credits, Catch Me If You Can is a stylish, confident comedy with a light touch.
Employing some of the traditional elements from hotel-room farces of past centuries — mistaken identities, sexy ladies, naughty banter, looming scandal — the playwright crafted a frisky 1930s-style comedy that demands only stylish performances to be considerable fun.
"Not since the end of the collaboration between Roy and John Boulting ('The Man in the Cocked Hat,' 'I'm All Right, Jack') and the golden age of the Ealing Studios has there been a stylish English comedy of such high-hearted, self-interested knavery," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times.
