fabulous invalid
English edit
Etymology edit
In reference to The Fabulous Invalid, a 1938 stage play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart that follows the oscillating fortunes of a fictitious Broadway theater between 1900 and 1930.
Proper noun edit
- The theater; stage productions generally.
- 1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 3, page 50:
- It hopes others will join in the financial medication of the fabulous invalid.
- 1993, Clive Barker, Simon Trussler, New Theatre Quarterly 32 (volume 8, part 4, page 313)
- Here, he continues to trace the long decline of the 'fabulous invalid' through the season of 1991-92 — a season overshadowed by the death of Joe Papp, […]