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The Met tickets were for Lowell Mass
a Metropolitan Opera simulcast
theatre seating for Showcase Theater’s largest screen
THX sound and bonus film events 
intermission interviews conducted by the diva 
Renée Fleming chatting with breathless stars
seniors bused in with canes and walkers 
slow along the steps
arriving an hour early for aisle seats
a sweater reserves a chair
shared sandwich lunches with sensible fruit.
A carnival of candy and soft drinks
among the row of girls attending Swan Lake
sitting with their dance instructor 
rearranging their hair out of and immediately into scrunchies.
Dawn later confirmed impressed
male dancers don’t wear protective cups.