dope opera
n.— «Still, musicals and might-as-well-be musicals like “Pulp Fiction” (you could call it a dope opera) have been kind to him ever since the early 1970s, when he made his stage breakthrough as a replacement Doody in the original Broadway “Grease.”» —“Seeking His Inner Her, Size XXXL” by Jesse Green in Los Angeles New York Times July 15, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)