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In my experience, neither year we did this was the director available to go on tours, and honestly that was perfectly fine. For the most part, the difficulty of the Tour performance that a director could help with is in adopting adapting blocking, and actors are good at that on their own. It also minimizes the number of people you need approval from for understudy casting, and lessens the number of rooms to book. All pluses in my view.
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