In some ways his career is reminiscent of that of Donald Wolfit, the tireless actor-manager whose blood-and-thunder versions of Shakespeare, which toured England from the 1930s until the 60s, have sometimes been compared to Rutter's.
Meyer explained the intense reactions he received in response to the works, which toured everywhere from the United Nations to the Pasadena Armory; reactions of an intensity he never experienced when painting.
As a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, she floundered at first but then got a job helping to analyze data from the two Voyager spacecrafts, which toured the outer planets from Jupiter to Neptune from 1978 to 1989.
He served as chairman of Columbia Artists Festivals, which toured talent ranging from Mel Torme to Dizzy Gillespie to the Ballet Folklorico Nacional de Mexico.
The company, which toured the world from 1964 on, enjoyed standing ovations in sold-out big-city theaters; but it also knew half-empty auditoriums and uncomfortable audiences, not least in New York, its home city.
In 1929 he inaugurated the Bertram Mills Tenting Circus, which toured the provinces from April to October and required up to four trains and 75 trucks and tractors to transport performers, animals, and equipment.
Originally aimed at only a small group of Western-educated intelligentsia, spoken drama's appeal was broadened to the middle class by the China Traveling Dramatic Troupe, which toured many cities from its home in Shanghai.
The lawsuit claims that the plots, themes, characters and situations in the Barbershop movies bear an overwhelming resemblance to those of "Scissors," which toured the United States from 1998-2001.
(If you want a radical cut-up of the text, there have been plenty, mostly from overseas where directors often have a less reverential view of Shakespeare than we do in Britain: see Thomas Ostermeier's production from Berlin, which toured to the Barbican in 2011).
Since 2010 he has also returned to the road as keyboardist and composer with Blue Touch Paper, an Anglo-German sextet including including Polar Bear saxophonist Mark Lockheart and acclaimed young guitarist Chris Montague, which tours the UK from 24 February.
