How to Use revue in a Sentence

revue

noun
Definition of revuenext
  • Now, the easy joke would be to lean entirely on the switcheroo of an all-male revue.
    — Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 19 May 2024
  • This year, the fair returned with new attractions, such as the Pork Chop revue and the Cool Zoo.
    — Sarah Raza, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The revue, arranged and adapted by Christopher Milton, takes place on the precipice of the Great War.
    — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Framed by the words of poet Langston Hughes, the rollicking revue is set on the streets of Harlem.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2021
  • If a musical revue of your life opened tonight at the Pantages, what would it be called?
    — Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 2 Nov. 2017
  • But enjoying a drag revue isn’t the only thing Cyrus has in store for the weekend.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The revue has been a fest fixture for 15 years, but this is the first one happening outdoors.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2022
  • The male dance revue Men from Magic Mike arrives June 17.
    — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 26 Apr. 2017
  • And so, the theater is opening its season with the revue on Friday.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Midler had a hit in 1975's Clams on the Half Shell, her Broadway revue (here, she's seen in her dressing room).
    — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Many of us feel deserving of something, possessed of the belief that the world owes us a steady revue of grand and bright pageantry.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 14 Mar. 2017
  • The critics were all over us, calling us a Las Vegas revue.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2023
  • This is no ordinary revue; hell, there isn’t even an easy way to describe it.
    — Corey Taylor, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021
  • A musical revue of a great comic and his country in their day.
    — Philly.com, 9 July 2017
  • Carroll first starred on Broadway in 1955 in the musical revue Catch a Star!
    — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2022
  • But the No Exit Cafe is ideal for Brel, and few revues conjure up this much emotion.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2017
  • But there was no true thematic through line to this casual revue of a dozen deeply beloved songs.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2023
  • In a revue such as this one, there are hits and misses in spite of the enduring familiarity of the songs.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Concerts that are more revues are nothing new to Cleveland.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Christmas Festival is the sort of old-fashioned revue that appeals to all ages.
    — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 10 Dec. 2017
  • Since the mid-1980s Alaskans have come to rely on his musical revues, which celebrate the sheer cussedness of the Last Frontier.
    — Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2019
  • But this Sunday, the revue is taking a twist: While Detroit musicians still fill the bill, the theme is a bit different.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2024
  • Mary Jonke, a close friend since age 7, assists with the eight, 90-second wardrobe changes incorporated in the Cher revue.
    — Mary Compton, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The evening also includes a pre-show 1920s-style musical revue.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The following year, the same students declared the first week of January to be Silent Record Week and hosted a revue to celebrate.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The revues will feature some of the performers from this summer's Ivoryton shows, and some will even share themes and genres with the musicals at the playhouse.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 17 May 2017
  • The earliest the theater will reopen for productions is May, when Rodriguez plans to stage a revue.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Girls night out: The Show, a nationally touring all-male revue, will be in Anchorage for the weekend.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2018
  • Harnick moved to New York in 1950 and found success writing comical songs for revues on and off Broadway.
    — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023
  • Our city’s funny factory has been spoofing politicians for more than 60 years and offers a pair of comedy revues during the DNC.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024

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