The show must go on. Unless you're spotted the day before a performance night with your neck in a brace, which itself comes just two days after you were taken to the hospital via stretcher.
Then there's a chance the show might not go on.
So which is it for injured Dancing With the Stars pro Kym Johnson, who's due to hotfoot it with partner Hines Ward tonight, but whose newly acquired medical accessories seem to tell another story?
Fear not, dancing fans! Kym has every intention of shaking her groove thang on the parquet tonight—albeit perhaps a little less ferociously than usual.
"I'm gonna be fine," she told E! News, when we caught up with her outside rehearsals yesterday. "I'll be fine by tomorrow."
While she explained that she's, as one would be, "a bit sore still," she proved herself a real trooper when we asked if she would be hitting the stage tonight.
"Yeah, hopefully, I'm gonna be fine," she said. "I'm a bit stiff still, so it's hard to move around.
"I got all checked out and it's just a sprain and bruising."
Oh, just a sprain and some bruising? They build those dancers tough. As for what caused the injury in the first place, Kym explained:
"I fell on my head. It was a bit scary, but I'm all good now."
Glad to hear it. Good luck tonight, Kym!