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Not sure how/whether they can get away with it, but this is undoubtedly why they're trying to, rather than automatically refunding credit cards:

I did exactly the same thing!

In an IG story, Mearns writes that she would have been performing her final show at the Met tonight.

Ah, the UK exemption from the US travel ban makes more and more sense!

That's nuts. The tickets are sold from the same box office and the same website. You can even use Met Opera gift cards for ABT tickets.

Numerous ABT dancers’ public social media posts state that ABT dancers are on a three-week unpaid lay-off. For example:

Ashley Bouder has posted this (as, I’m sure, have others):

So you think the IMDB listing is incorrect? (The SVU episode in question is listed in his credits.)

As the IMDB link above indicates, though, it's actually a different John Waters.

Guest starring the John Waters? ETA: It seems not. (Or at least not the one I had in mind!)

Yes, it would seem so. For comparison, Swan Lake is listed as 145 minutes, while another page breaks down the two parts as 70 and 45 minutes, leaving 30 minutes for intermission.

The behavior has allegedly been going on for decades, and I suspect the ROH and many other companies knew about it but chose to hire him regardless.

An unfortunate outcome for those ticket buyers, to be sure, but also not a surprise to anyone not in denial about the seriousness of the allegations against him.

The ABT website lists it as 140 minutes.

I assume there was a synopsis in the printed program, but I haven't been able to find one online. Has anyone else had luck with that?

Yes that’s correct. It was briefly discussed in the ABT Spring 2020 discussion.

I don’t follow the logic here. Why would it be belittling to point out that they’re among the relative few who have overcome systemic gender bias (which is what I understood @Helene to be doing)?

If the main reason Lane doesn't cover for Copeland is that she no longer dances with Cornejo (which I know we don't know — why I say "if"), then I don't think it's less likely now than before. There are other potential SL partners for her. That said, I already thought it might be rather unlikely, even if she were still dancing with Cornejo. ETA: Actually, now that I think about it, if she's no longer dancing with Cornejo that does probably make it less likely. When Copeland (likely soon) retires O/O, Cornejo will need a partner, and they might have turned to Lane. You're prob right, Lena C. And yeah, bums me out too.

Right. I was assuming one of those options was in the works. And even if not, this situation just underscores Lane’s problematic position in the company, which is why it doesn’t change my perception of her long-term prospects.

Gotcha. I had assumed already they were already preparing another option. I realize that was just an assumption though.

The cover isn’t always a dancer not already performing the role. Seo once stepped in for Murphy’s second half. There would likely be several alternatives, I think, if they prepared — which, if Lane is indeed no longer dancing with Cornejo as a general rule, they very likely would.

I don't understand. Aren't Copeland's SLs with Cornejo? If so, that could very well be why Lane wouldn't understudy that. I thought we knew all along that was likely. How does this add any new information about the prospects for Lane's ABT career?

Whether she was or she wasn’t, it created the perception that she may have been, which was the fuel. She was vague or careless with her words in a post that was bound to cause a reaction and deserved more care. It didn’t make me think less of her as a dancer, but it definitely wasn’t a wise move.

Indeed. I don't think this from the AP today really adds any significant new dimension, but it certainly reaffirms how much of a bad look this is. The gist:

Personally, I would too. But just because one does something “in service of verisimilitude” doesn’t mean one achieves true realism (or even that one is really trying to do so). Think of tenors in blackface for Otello, even in the present day (though no longer at the Met). In the arts, verisimilitude (and even “realism”) is often quite removed from reality.