List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 248

SYNONYMS: musical comedy, revue, operetta, light opera, vaudeville.
These nouns refer to performances by actors/actresses and musicians.

A musical comedy differs from a revue principally in having a plot.
A revue is a plotless series of comic sketches and songs, often topical and satiric.
Operetta, used interchangeably with light opera, is a form of having a plot with spoken dialogue; the libretto and the music are often more serious and substantial than musical comedy.
In modern usage, vaudeville denotes a plotless program of unrelated specialty acts; the approximate equivalents are the music hall and variety.