melodrama Synonyms

footlights histrionics triteness love story idyll broadway dramatisation showmanship warmth vehicle vaudeville tragedy theatricals theater schmaltz morality play stage show psychodrama playlet theatrics maudlinness maudlinism melodramatics gushiness emotionalness dramatics daytime drama soap opera sob story spectacle soap show hysteria farce excitement emotivity emotiveness emotion dramatization drama crisis comedy comedietta bathos ballet mawkishness melodrame serial sentimentality sentimentalism