fabulous invalid

English

Etymology

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

the fabulous invalid

  1. 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, […]
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