summer stock
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- noun
- /ˈsʌmər stɑk/
- US
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teatro de verano
- He gained valuable experience acting in summer stock theater, learning important skills for his future career.
- summer stock theater
- summer stock company
- summer stock production
I sort of spent a couple years in Michigan doing summer stock and booking like America's Most Wanted.
- I sort of spent a couple years in Michigan doing summer stock and booking like America's Most Wanted.
Examples
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Then one summer, while doing summer stock, I wrote a play that found a niche Off-Broadway.
Blog text (11) -
Every summer, tourists flock to watch the summer stock performances at the beautiful outdoor amphitheater.
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I once did some summer stock.
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We had both been in summer stock in New England.
Fiction book (1991) -
I'm going to try out for the summer stock program.
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So I kept it a secret for a very long time until, until I was doing summer stock in New Hampshire.
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That's where your mom and I met, doing The King and I in summer stock.
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Other than some summer stock theater and the state park, there isn't much opportunity for an actor around here.
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I've done musicals in summer stock, but my dream is to star in a new musical on Broadway, one that Stephen Sondheim writes just for me.
Fiction book (1996) -
During the summer, I joined a local theater group to perform in a summer stock production near the lake.
Synonyms
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A group of people who put on plays for an audience
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6.8
A group of actors who regularly perform different plays during a season
A group of actors who perform a set of plays regularly in one theatre
Surface Forms
Morphology
While 'summer' clearly signals the season, 'stock' here has a specialized theatrical sense (as in 'stock company' or repertoire) that is not the common B1 meaning like 'inventory' or 'regular supply'. A learner who knows the basic senses of the words would only partially infer the concept and would likely not identify the specific theatre-related meaning without exposure or cultural/domain knowledge. Therefore the transparency is partial rather than fully transparent or wholly idiomatic.
Etymology
Summer stock comes from old theatre practice: a stock company was a group of actors who kept a set of plays ready, and each summer they would go to resorts or small towns to put on shows. That's why summer stock means 'theatrical productions performed by a company during the summer'.