touring company
Americannoun
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a cast of stage actors taking a popular show on the road, sometimes replacing certain actors with local ones as they travel from city to city.
He’s part of the touring company of Rent, which features two members of the original Broadway cast.
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a popular stage production performed by a traveling cast of actors.
While in Cleveland we attended the touring company of Les Misérables.
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a company whose business is planning, arranging, and conducting sightseeing trips for groups of tourists.
Our first night in Albania was a walking tour with our tour guide and the owner of the touring company.
Etymology
Origin of touring company
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Rapper Chris Brown’s touring company received the $10 million maximum, of which $5 million went directly to Mr. Brown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
Her first theater gig, at age 17, was in the touring company of “Call Me Madam.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
Hall's play was then chosen for the venture, and the concept has now been picked up by UK touring company Headlong for a series of performances around England.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2023
Yet his war experience endowed Newman with little maturity or personal direction — he compares it to “being in a touring company of ‘Taming of the Shrew’ going through Schenectady, Poughkeepsie and upstate New York.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
"I've heard it said that's why Will Kempe left the company. They say he made off with the book of As You Like It, and sold it to a touring company in Leicester."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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