fandomtownies | Café Fina, Friday Night after the play

Anyone who came to eat at Fina today would be confronted with a very large, very impressive-looking sign:

CLOSING EARLY FOR THEATRE
Everyone is encouraged to attend The Consequence of Being Frank at the Boards tonight. Café Fina will close one-half hour before the performance, and will not re-open until dinner tomorrow.

50% off your entire bill if you plan on attending the performance.

As the dishes made ready their preparations for the cast party after the play, they would occasionally stop by and embellish the sign. By the end of the evening, it sported glitter, flowers, ribbons, and blinking lights, and yet somehow managed to remain elegant and dignified.

After the early closing, an additional sign -- this one saying simply "WELCOME THE CONSEQUENCE OF BEING FRANK" went up next to it. The Salt Cellar and Pepper Pot were supposed to be standing in the doorway waiting to greet the cast for the party, but instead started violently arguing about whether the sign was grammatical.

(OCD is up)

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Enjoy your normal elegant dining experience, complete with singing and dancing person-sized dinnerware waiting on you. They might be a bit distracted, however, with their other plans.

If you're not finished eating when it gets close to time for the play to start, you can expect to be passive-aggressively hovered over, glared at, and coughed at by an angry Cheese Grater.

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Why are you here, and not at the Boards? Seriously, what is wrong with you?!?!

See if you can get the Salt Cellar and Pepper Pot's attention long enough for them to yell at you, instead of each other. Don't expect to get in the door, unless you're invited to the cast party.

Heyyyyyy, you're done with the play! Congratulations!

Arrive, mingle, and have some of the most exquisitely elegant hors d'oeuvres you have ever tasted. (Yes, there will be escargot.) There is no buffet, of course -- the waitstaff will be circling the room, serving you from trays.

Karla showed up at the cast part, but only after she took a long, hot shower. The syrup had snarled in her hair, caked and grimed over her skin. That, paired with the sweat from inside the astronaut suit had made her one unpleasant individual.

But now, freshly showered, clean, and starving, Karla made her way to the cast party.

There'd be booze, right?

There is one long candlelit table for everyone to sit around, and the dishes will be bringing a constant stream of sumptuous courses. For the vegetarians, the chefs have done some amazing things with tofu and nuts, and for everyone else there will be quail and suckling pigs among the early courses and a whole roasted lamb, carved in front of you, as the main course.

Dine, chat, and make merry.

The dishes, believing you are probably done with showmanship for the night, will field a simple string quartet on the stage as the evening's entertainment.

No, you most likely don't have room for it, but you'll wish you did. Carts laden with custards and cakes will circle the rooms for everyone to groan and make eyes at.

Throughout the evening, Porthos will sit in regal state at the foot of the table, should you wish to chat with him. The head of the table, of course, is reserved for Jono.

The world won't end, not tonight. The chef would have words for whatever deity tried to prevent the actors from sampling the fruits of his labor.

Café Fina, Friday Night after the play

Before the play

During the play

Cast Party -- Arrive

Re: Cast Party -- Arrive

Cast Party -- Dinner and Show

Cast Party -- Dessert

Cast Party -- Your Host

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