TEXT: ACT ONE Scene One - Café Nervosa. Frasier and Niles are sitting in Café Nervosa in the morning, chatting pretentiously about the food and drink. Niles: Have you noticed there are fewer hazlenuts in these biscotti? Frasier: So I'm not crazy. Niles: And yet they've gone up twenty-five cents. Frasier: Oh, fewer nuts, more money - something I've been aspiring to for my entire professional life! [they laugh] Roz enters through the front door in a rather shabby tracksuit, the front of which is drenched in sweat. Added to this, her hair is clumsily tied up behind her head with sweat beads trickling down her forehead. She is wearing shorts and is out of breath. Roz: [catching breath:] That's the last time I jog in these shorts. My thighs are chafing like a couple of hams wrapped in velcro! [shouting to waitress:] Non-fat Mocha, please! As she sits at their table, Niles and Frasier distance themselves. Roz: What?! Frasier: As flattered as we are that you've chosen our company over, say... a shower, perhaps you'd like to go to the ladies room to freshen up a little bit? Roz: [angry:] Hey, at least I try to keep in shape. I haven't seen one of you two run an eight minute mile! Niles: Stand upwind of us and you might! Roz, getting the gist, decides to go and freshen up. Frasier: Oh, by the way Niles, my benefit for the Seattle Theatre Ensemble is tonight - I haven't recieved your check yet. Niles: Well, that's because I'm still not sure if I'm coming. Whom should I expect to meet there? Frasier: Professional people... around our age.. Niles: [wanting more:] Hmmm. Frasier: Same social standing... Niles: [strangely:] Yoww
SUMMARY:
At a benefit evening for the Seattle Theatre Ensemble, Frasier is approached by three attractive women in the course of the evening, and each one gives him her number. He therefore finds himself with a three-day weekend coming up and a date on each day. On the first date, Frasier claims to be a dog-lover and an vegetarian to impress his date, but Martin and Sherry come back early and reveal his deception. The following evening, Sherry accidentally reveals to the second date that Frasier had a date with a different woman the previous night. Martin has broken up with Sherry, and she calls by to drop something off, just before Frasier's third date arrives. Despite his worry that Sherry will wreck this date, Frasier tries to understand why Martin broke up with her, and finds out that it was due to Martin's guilt over falling in love with someone else other than his late wife. He encourages them to reconcile.