They also got a dash of old-fashioned melodrama, which has been missing during the first two and a half flat weeks of their season.

With vivid clarity, the new "Rebecca" offers a modern twist on what remains a deliciously old-fashioned psychological melodrama.

"André" is also, at heart, a good old-fashioned melodrama: an opera libretto in search of an opera.

But no matter how much you dress it up, this slight and overly somber piece only goes to show that old-fashioned melodrama is a pan-cultural phenomenon.

And when Mom speaks hopefully about the possibility of political change, the irony rumbles like the thunder machine in an old-fashioned melodrama.

The scene that met his eyes was typical of the English countryside as depicted on Xmas cards and in old-fashioned melodramas.

That story, nonetheless veers toward old-fashioned melodrama, with the trappings of a Hollywood historical spectacle.

It isn't subtle, but then it isn't supposed to be; this is old-fashioned melodrama.

The New York Times called it "an old-fashioned melodrama with the old school of acting.

The libretto is really an old-fashioned blood-and-thunder melodrama with a topical message of tolerance and reconciliation at the end.