"straight play" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "straight plays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "straight play (plural straight plays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        },
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Theater",
          "orig": "en:Theater",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, page 221",
          "text": "It is unthinkable for a straight play to enjoy a life span like those of the blockbuster musicals or to earn such astronomical grosses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A play relying on spoken dialogue to tell the story, in contrast to a musical."
      ],
      "id": "en-straight_play-en-noun-E4JBKCTE",
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        [
          "theater",
          "theater"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "dialogue",
          "dialogue"
        ],
        [
          "musical",
          "musical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(theater) A play relying on spoken dialogue to tell the story, in contrast to a musical."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "play it straight"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "theater"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "straight play"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "straight plays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "straight play (plural straight plays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "play it straight"
    }
  ],
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, page 221",
          "text": "It is unthinkable for a straight play to enjoy a life span like those of the blockbuster musicals or to earn such astronomical grosses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A play relying on spoken dialogue to tell the story, in contrast to a musical."
      ],
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        [
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          "theater"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "dialogue",
          "dialogue"
        ],
        [
          "musical",
          "musical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(theater) A play relying on spoken dialogue to tell the story, in contrast to a musical."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "theater"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "straight play"
}