musicalize , also: musicalise BrE

I don't know how many times I tried to musicalize that.

A primary difference was in the choice of material to musicalize, and to dramatize.

This reflective view solves a problem inherent in any attempt to musicalize science fiction.

It was his mother who suggested that he musicalize the story - but not before having suggested the same thing, back in the 60's, to her father.

It can powerfully visualize, textualize and/or musicalize your experience of the world, and there are a million ways to do it.

Lerner had been trying to musicalize Li'l Abner when he read Pascal's obituary and found himself thinking about Pygmalion again.

Composers looking for a project to musicalize, lyricists looking for a composer; whenever there was a situation that needed a little something, they would throw me in there.

Based on a first-act draft that Amon gives me (he and a co-writer, Shintaro Tsuji, have written the book), I find a lot to musicalize.

He was also asked to musicalize Nathanael West's A Cool Million with James Lapine around 1982, but he refused.

He travelled to Cornwall, England, to find du Maurier's son in an attempt to obtain the rights to musicalize the work, which had been denied to other librettists.

Though she had been wooed "many, many times" for the rights to musicalize her husband's works, she said, what persuaded her to yield on this occasion was the run-the-gamut approach.

Holder had obtained the rights to musicalize the novel in America from the Leroux estate, making Phantom the only Phantom of the Opera musical to do so.

Watching "Love's Labour's Lost," I thought perhaps Mr. Branagh shares with me a desire to musicalize even the classics simply because movie musicals are among the top 10 reasons to live.

The idea to musicalize Ah, Wilderness came to David Merrick when George M. Cohan came through St. Louis with the original production of the O'Neill play.

However, this version never materialized, and over the next several years, various authors and composers sought to musicalize Li'l Abner, including writers Arnold Horwitt and Josh Logan.

They felt that the Cassella play, a story celebrating the joy and humor of love, was both universal and moving, and that with its recent adaptation as Meet Joe Black, it was a good time to musicalize the story.