The actors here should be grateful for the repertory system.
In Germany, most houses adopted the repertory system, playing a different work from one night to the next, like the Met.
In the past, both the international system and the repertory system have produced impressive artistic results.
Or they would be, were not many houses institutionally bound to the repertory system.
The play is a hit, and runs for three nights straight (unusual in the repertory system of the day).
Ballet, functioning within a repertory system, has what are called alternate casts.
By contrast, companies that use a repertory system maintain a permanent company and rotate productions over many months or even years.
These are things the repertory systems of local companies rarely allow.
Jokes aside, the repertory system itself has a venerable celluloid history.
In America, the repertory system has also found a base to compete with commercial theatre.