revusicaladj.n.

1914 (title) Whoopsy Daisy; song from the revusical comedy, After the girl.

1915 N.Z. Truth 4 Sept. 2 When ‘After the Girl’..was produced at the Gaiety Theatre, London, a good deal of controversy raged round the description of the play as a ‘revusical comedy’.

1922 N.Z. Truth 18 Nov. 15 The J. C. Williamson production of the revusical play, ‘The Peep Show’, now in Australia, is being given exactly as it was at the Hippodrome, London.

1955 Humboldt Standard (Eureka, Calif.) 5 Feb. 4/5 As soon as Margie Duncan can get free from her George White revusical job, she will wed Bernie Rich.

1915 N.Z. Truth 4 Sept. 2 Mr. George Edwardes..settled all arguments by explaining how the word had been coined... The idea was..hit on to call it by the combination of the two—so ‘revusical’ was the word that came into existence.

1929 Time 26 Aug. 18/3 Whatever may be the faults of the contemporary revusical, such entertainments usually profit from the services of a superlative clown.

1931 Amer. Speech 7 45 Torso tossers dance in revusicals which might even turn out floperoos.

1936 Daily Mirror (N.Y.) 22 Apr. 10/4 Harriet Hoctor's class in ‘The Ziegfeld Follies’, the revusical.

1967 New Idea (Austral.) 23 Feb. 6/4 John McKellar's invention, a revusical, opening in Sydney..called Hail Gloria Fitzpatrick. The Phillip Theatre..coined the word revusical to describe a show that will cover every facet of theatre work.

2008 Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press (Nexis) 19 Oct. f6 ‘I Love a Piano’ is a ‘revusical’, says producer Eva Price—64 Irving Berlin songs connected by a piano with one broken note.