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Here We Are: A Restaurant Guide

Café Everything, Bistro à la Mode, & Osteria Zeno

May 04, 2025
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Three restaurants, six wealthy diners, and absolutely nothing to eat. In Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, the simple quest for a meal becomes an absurdist descent into societal collapse.

The first act of Here We Are unfolds as a darkly comic descent through the circles of fine dining hell. Our protagonists—rich, entitled, and desperately hungry—begin th…

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