summer stock
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After several years of off-Broadway productions, summer stock, and roles in TV dramas like “Naked City” and the “Twilight Zone,” Duvall landed his first Hollywood role in 1962.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
But the BRC said non-food retailers had been "discounting heavily to shift their summer stock, particularly for fashion and household goods".
From BBC • Aug. 27, 2024
He acted exclusively on the stage, with no intention of doing otherwise, for a decade, working in summer stock and repertory companies.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2024
Wondering: First of all, a three-week vacation with any hard-drinking and hard-fighting couple seems less like a vacation and more like a summer stock run of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022
I could probably have nailed one corner of it into the floor and disappeared within, performing all of Fiddler on the Roof as if under a summer stock tent.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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