burletta
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1. burletta - Noun
2. burletta - Adjective
Meaning
A comic operetta; a music farce.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
masque
mime
musical
camp
comedy
ballet
cabaret
farce
pantomime
burlesque
charade
vaudeville
slapstick
afterpiece
harlequinade
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New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keene 's "musical burletta" Seven Sisters (1860) shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances.
Wilmeth and Miller, p. 56 Other early musical theatre in America consisted of British forms, such as burletta and pantomime, but what a piece was called did not necessarily define what it was.