The phrase "a showcase run" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a performance or demonstration intended to highlight skills, products, or capabilities, often in a competitive or promotional context.
Example: "The team organized a showcase run to demonstrate their latest innovations to potential investors."
Alternatives: "a demonstration run" or "a presentation run".
It has already paid for his secluded home and exotically stocked greenhouse in Redding, Conn., courtesy of the proceeds from surrogate stardom Off Broadway in their previous collaboration, which moved to the Orpheum Theater in 1982 after a showcase run.
Eventually, he spotted a showcase run by Headfirst baseball, a private youth-sports organization based in Washington, D.C.
Thirty designers and artists are now at work, preparing the mansion for a Designers' Showcase run by a Greenvale company called Mansions & Millionaires.
Because the actor Kevin Spacey put up the money to extend the showcase run, and then co-produced the play, Penguin is blessed with sudden cachet.
MAN, the new talent showcase run by Lulu Kennedy and Topman, featured newcomers Liam Hodges and Nicomede Talavera along with Bobby Abley, who has previously shown with the initiative.
Mr. Kaplan says: "I discovered that the falloff for '2001' in its showcase run was significantly greater than for any previous roadshow movie.
After this initial, "roadshow" presentation, "2001" went into its regular, "showcase" run at some 20 theaters in all five boroughs, where it was projected in 35-millimeter -- and the receipts plummeted.
(That nightclub feel later became available when "Def Comedy Jam," the all-the-way-live and raw stand-up comic showcase, ran on HBO and provided a home for Mr. Lawrence, Cedric the Entertainer, Mr. Hughley and Mr. Mac, among others).
Today they are grouped into a broad community event called the Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase, running Jan . 26to Feb. 11 this year.
(Tommasini) ★ Margaret Leng Tan (Sunday) As part of the Mode Records showcase running through the end of September at the Stone, Ms. Tan performs John Cage's "Four Walls," a 1944 work for piano (and, at times, voice) that uses repeated figures and silence to explore disturbed states of mind.
The NEW INC showcase runs at Red Bull Studios through July 30.
