Cast Member
Mark: Anthony Rapp
Roger: Tony Hoylen
Mimi: Daphne Rubin-Vega
Collins: Pat Briggs
Joanne: Shelley Dickenson
Angel: Mark Setlock
Maureen: Sarah Knowlton
Benny: Michael Potts
Ensemble: Erin Hill
Ensemble: Deirdre Boddie-Henderson
Ensemble: Gilles Chiasson
Ensemble: Sheila Kay Davis
Ensemble: John Lathan
Ensemble: Jesse Sinclair Renat |
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Act One
- Voice Mail #1 (Mark, Roger, Dave, Mark's Mom, Benny)
- Rent (Mark, Roger)
- You Okay Honey? (Angel, Collins, Maureen, Joanne)
- Rent #2 (Roger, Mark)
- You're A Fool (Roger, Mark)
- Today 4 U (Mark, Roger,Collins, Angel)
- Do a Little Buisness (Benny, Mark, Collins, Angel
- Female to Female (Maureen, Joanne)
- Come to the Meeting (Mark, Angel, Collins, Roger)
- Right Brain (Roger)
- Light My Candle (Roger, Mimi)
- On the Street (Homeless)
- Voice Mail #2 (Maureen, Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson, Joanne)
- Female to Female B (Maureen, Joanne)
- Another Day (Roger, Mimi)
- On the Street #2 (The Company)
- Santa Fe (Angel, Collins, Mark)
- I'll Cover You (Mark, Collins, Angel)
- Will I? (The Company)
- You'll Get Over It (Maureen, Mark)
- Christmas Bells (The Company)
- Over the Moon (Maureen)
- La Vie Boheme (The Company)
- AZT Break (Collins, Angel, Maureen, Joanne, Roger, Mimi
- I Should Tell You (Roger, Mimi)
Act Two
- Voice Mail #3 (Benny, Secretary)
- Seasons of Love (The Company)
- Out Tonight (Mimi, Maureen, Angel, Joanne)
- Seasons of Love B (The Company)
- Voice Mail #4 (Maureen)
- Without You (Maureen, Joanne)
- Voice Mail #5 (Collins, Angel)
- Contact (The Company)
- I'll Cover You B (Collins and the Company)
- Goodbye Love (Mimi, Roger, Benny, Maureen, Joanne, Mark)
- Real Estate (Mark, Benny, Alison)
- Open Road (Roger)
- Voice Mail #6 (Roger's Mom, Mimi's Mom, Joanne's Dad, Mark's Mom)
- On the Street #3 (Homeless)
- Rent #3 (Roger, Mark)
- Finale (The Company)
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VOICE MAIL #1
(phone rings)
ROGER &
MARK
"Speak!"
DAVE
(into phone) Roger, it's Dave,
(to customer) $4.50,
(into phone) this is the last time you've
left me without a bartender
(to customer) two Buds (into
phone) don't bother coming in next week
(to customer) rolling
rock (into phone) you're 86ed!
(phone
rings)
ROGER & MARK
"Speak!"
MARK'S MOM
That was a very loud beep
I don't even know if this is working
Mark
-- Mark -- are you there
Are you screening your calls --
It's mom
We
wanted to call and say we love you
And we'll miss you tomorrow
Cindy and
the kids are here -- send their love
Oh, I hope you like the hot plate
Just don't leave it on, dear
When you leave the house
Oh, and Mark
Your father got a call from Chemical Bank
I don't know how they got our
number
but we meant it when we said that you're cut off
...love
Mom
(phone rings)
ROGER &
MARK
"Speak!"
BENNY
Dudes, it's Benny
I know it's
Christmas, but I need the cash
Something big, I'm on my way
Don't block
the box a-hole! Later...
Top
RENT
MARK
If I threw my body out the window
brain all
splattered guts all steaming in the snow
I wouldn't have to finish shooting
films
that no one wants to show
Rent!
ROGER
If I studied
something that paid a salary
wouldn't have to do the shit I do for cash
My guts all steaming, fuck this dreaming
speed, metal rocks, songs for
the trash
MARK
The wheels aren't
turning
ROGER
It's worthy of burning
MARK &
ROGER
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last
month's rent
ROGER
If I took a hammer, tapped my forehead
wouldn't have to wake and stagger through the week
or hear a boring,
grinning, whoring, brainless, dull producer speak
Rent!
MARK
If I slid the bars back
hurled my body through
the cracked glass
on some crack-head's cardboard bed
Maureen could kick
my frozen frame
shout my name, and then drop dead
ROGER
She's got a new man?
What's his name?
MARK
Joanne
MARK & ROGER
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last month's rent
Top
YOU OKAY HONEY?
ANGEL
You okay, honey?
COLLINS
I'm afraid so
ANGEL
They get any
money?
COLLINS
No, had none to get
But they purloined my
coat
Well you missed a sleeve! - thanks
ANGEL
Hell, it's
Christmas Eve
MAUREEN
That's the stage, Joanne? Kiss!
Remind me when I stress forgive me
JOANNE
That was last
Tuesday night, Maureen
ANGEL
I'm
Angel
COLLINS
Indeed, an angel of the first degree
Friends
call me Collins -- Tom Collins
Nice tree
Top
RENT #2
ROGER
If they toss my carcass in the dumpster
my
fingers wouldn't bleed and blister and scar
My head wouldn't pound from the
sound
of garbage streaming out of my guitar
MARK
If I
killed myself or studied business
no more parents spitting up on my career
So are you showing?
Where's this going?
Home for Christmas?
MARK & ROGER
Not this year!
MARK
We're
hungry and frozen
ROGER
Some life that we've chosen
MARK & ROGER
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How
we gonna pay
Last month's rent
This month's rent
Next month's rent
Rent rent rent rent rent
How we gonna pay rent
How we gonna pay rent
Top
YOU'RE A FOOL
ROGER
You're off?
MARK
You
wanna wait here for Benny?
ROGER
Is there anything else to
do?
MARK
Anything but Maureen's show
ROGER
You wanna go? Yes?
MARK
I guess
ROGER For someone cool, you're a fool
MARK
I
know
ROGER
But her show's not `til one
MARK
We'll do something else, it's Christmas
ROGER
Oh fun! Some of us don't have time for that
MARK
Aw!
ROGER
Some of us get writer's block
MARK
What a crock
ROGER
Some of our parents
don't pay our bills
MARK
Mr. Negative, cuz he's HIV Positive!
ROGER
You can't know, give me some
latitude
MARK
Maybe you're blocked because of that attitude
ROGER
I doubt you'd be so brave
Hell, you're scared to see
your ex
MARK
I'm a chicken shit
A hypocrite -- I admit
ROGER
I rest my case
For someone cool you're a fool
MARK
Let's make a deal
ROGER
No deals
MARK
I'll see Maureen if you come out tonight
ROGER
I don't fit in anymore, all right!
Anyway, I'm
working
ROGER
It's scratchy
MARK
It recalls
something, but it's catchy
ROGER
The inspired zone of my brain
has atrophied
but I need to leave a mark before I croak
MARK
Not funny!
ROGER
No joke
I wish
that I could turn the days I wasted
toying with dope fiends and groupies
into days spent obsessing over details
the way that you do
MARK
If you only knew
I spend so much time obsessing, it's
depressing
For someone cool, you're the fool
You want to rediscover the
spark
leave a mark, share something with someone
Face your fears
ROGER
What's that I hear?
Maureen, did you
say?
MARK
Touche
MARK & ROGER
For someone
cool, you're a...
(knock on the door) Shit!
(another
knock) Hi!
(another knock) The lock!
(another knock)
Damn!
Top
TODAY 4 U
MARK & ROGER Bustelo -- Marlboro
Banana by the
bunch
A box of Cap'n Crunch will taste so good
COLLINS
And
firewood
MARK
Must be Santa Claus
COLLINS
Hold your applause
MARK &
ROGER
Collins!
COLLINS
Playing Anne Frank with your
landlord?
Better have some Stoli
MARK & ROGER
Oh holy
night
You struck gold at MIT?
COLLINS
They expelled me for
my theory of Actual Reality
Which I now impart
To the couch potatoes at
New York University
Gentlemen, our benefactor on this Christmas Eve
Whose music is the purest on the bow'ry, I believe
A true member of the
Alphabet City avant-garde
Angel Dumott Schunard!
ANGEL
Today for you -- tomorrow for me
Today for you --
tomorrow for me
COLLINS
And you should hear her
beat!
ROGER
You earned this on the street?
ANGEL
It was my lucky day today on Avenue A
When a lady in
a limousine drove my way
She said, "Darling -- be a dear -- I haven't slept
in a year
I need your help to make my neighbor's yappy dog
disappear"
"This akita, Evita, just won't shut up
I believe if you play
non-stop that pup
Will breathe its very last high-strung breath
I'm
certain that cur will bark itself to death
Today for you -- tomorrow for
me
Today for you -- tomorrow for me
We agreed on a fee -- a thousand
dollar guarantee
Tax-free, and a bonus if I trim her tree
Now who could
foretell that it would go so well
But sure as I am here that dog is now in
doggy hell
After an hour - Evita -- in all her glory
On the window ledge
of that 23rd story
Like Thelma & Louise did when they got the blues
Swan dove into the courtyard of the Gracie Mews
Today for you --
tomorrow for me
Today for you -- tomorrow for me
I said: Today for you
-- tomorrow for me
Today for you -- tomorrow for me
Top
DO A LITTLE BUSINESS
BENNY
The checkbook, Allison, the
checkbook, Allison, the checkbook,
Not my datebook, for the money, Allison,
honey, Allison,
The batteries are running out of gas
Just find me,
Allison, the checkbook, Allison,
Otherwise Allison, it's my ass
And so
this is Christmas -- Oh ho ho ho, dudes
Feed the world, let them know it's
Christmas time
Hey you bum -- Yeah, you, move over
Get your ass off that
range rover
Boys I'm double parked
MARK
Benny
BENNY
How's your project? -- Good
MARK
You yuppie scum
BENNY
How's your
project? Good, you've worked how long?
MARK
Six years
BENNY
And for what?
MARK
That's not the
point
BENNY
You kill me
Six years, Allison, since I blew
this dump
What'd I make a million?
I just did a little business
MARK
Did a little business
BENNY
What's wrong
with that?
I bought the building
MARK
Bought the
building
BENNY
I bought the lot next door
I bought another
COLLINS
And another
BENNY
And now I need to
buy one more
COLLINS
Just like Monopoly
ANGEL
I love Monopoly, I'll be the dog
COLLINS
I`ll be the hat
MARK
What's next?
Little green houses?
COLLINS
Plastic houses
ROGER
A little red plastic hotel
BENNY
A
video franchise
MARK, ROGER, COLLINS & ANGEL
Video
franchise?
BENNY
The deal your rent will underwrite
One
last building on the block, then sell
Cough it up! Tonight's my night!
And tell Maureen
MARK
We aren't speaking
BENNY
Her protest better end by two
We're putting in
fences
COLLINS
On Christmas Day?
BENNY
That
wasn't me
MARK, ROGER, COLLINS & ANGEL
Then
who?
BENNY
It's none of your business
MARK
None of our business?
BENNY
Tonight your
business is the rent
MARK &
ROGER
Yeah
COLLINS
That your jeep?
BENNY
My Range Rover
ROGER
Perfect car for
urban play
BENNY
We use it too, to get away
MARK
East Hampton is just like the outback
COLLINS
L-i-e, like a safari
ROGER
We should
buy one
MARK
We should buy two
BENNY
Now
then
ANGEL
Now then
COLLINS
Buy ten
MARK, ROGER, COLLINS &
ANGEL
Bye-bye!
ROGER
Wait, what happened to the Jag?
BENNY
With the wife and the dog it was a drag
ANGEL
Oh drag, what kind of hag,
I mean dog, do you have?
BENNY
Evita's an Akita
MARK, ROGER, COLLINS &
ANGEL
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
BENNY
Gotta do a little
business
MARK
Do a little business
BENNY
Can
we?
MARK & ROGER
We can
BENNY
November,
December, January. Brings the sum to...
ANGEL
I can't believe
that they are out on Christmas
Eve!
BENNY
What?
ANGEL
A tow truck
BENNY
The city needs the reven... A tow truck? You fuck!
A
tow truck, Allison, a tow truck, Allison,
A tow truck, tow truck, tow truck,
Allison,
A tow truck, Allison, A tow truck, Allison,
A tow truck, tow
truck, tow truck, tow truck, tow truck
Top
FEMALE TO FEMALE
MAUREEN
Female to female, female to female,
female to female
Joanne, we said female to female
When we left the
house, what cable did we say to pack?
No, that's a headphone jack
JOANNE
Yes, Maureen
MAUREEN
No, the plugs
are red and black
JOANNE
Yes, Maureen
MAUREEN
Did you check the knapsack?
JOANNE
Yes, Maureen
MAUREEN
Then you'll have
to go back
JOANNE
I guess, Maureen
MAUREEN
We said RCA
JOANNE
Uh-huh
MAUREEN
We said RCA
JOANNE
You're right
MAUREEN
To connect the sampler to the digital delay
JOANNE
Let's not get uptight
MAUREEN
To run
from the amp to the video display
Am I such a dumb cow?
JOANNE
No!
MAUREEN
Should I take poison now?
JOANNE
No!
MAUREEN
God, this is going worse
than we expected
JOANNE
I know, Maureen
MAUREEN
How can I perform if we're
unconnected?
JOANNE
I'll go, Maureen
MAUREEN
It's times like these, I really appreciate Mark
Top
COME TO THE MEETING/ HE SAYS
MARK
Now's our
chance
ANGEL
Mr. Finance lived
here?!
COLLINS
Before the real estate career
MARK
We can't stay
ROGER
Benny was a
dilettante
Benny met a debutante
Go ahead, I'll catch up
MARK
No way!
COLLINS
Come to the
meeting
ROGER
What meeting?
ANGEL
He lived
here?
COLLINS
Support group - P.W.A.
MARK
Benny'll be back, come!
ROGER
I don't
need 12 steps
MARK
I know
Benny, he'll make us pay
MARK & ROGER
For someone cool, he's a fool
ROGER
He kicks us out, we move, so what?
COLLINS
But, where? Do you know?
ROGER
I got
a car
So as far as April's bucket'll go
Santa Fe, Austin...
MARK
We couldn't make Boston!
ANGEL
April?
MARK
Suicidal girl who od'ed
He says he loved her, what he
loves is to bleed
Over two years since she left that car key
But he
never drives it
ROGER
That's enough
ANGEL
Dinner's on me
MARK
First the meeting,
then Maureen's show
ROGER
See you at the restaurant
MARK
But the meeting!
(Roger hits Mark)
Oh! He
says he'll meet us at the restaurant
He says he wants to stay and play his
guitar, he says
He wants to be obsessed with art like me, he says
He
wants to re-develop the creative side of his brain, he says
He doesn't need
support groups
ROGER
I say he'll bring his camera
MARK
He says he doesn't know why I go when I'm not sick or
queer
ROGER
But it's to make a career!
MARK
He says he doesn't think that love is possible anymore
ROGER
It's not!
ROGER & MARK
One day
I'll/he'll fix that car she left me/him and fly
MARK
I don't
believe a word
I don't believe a word
I don't believe a word he says
Top
RIGHT BRAIN
ROGER
Will I lose my dignity
Will someone care
Will I wake tomorrow
From this night...
The right brain
How
do I find the right brain
I lost my map
The right brain
It's when I
get locked in
Find the right brain
Like driving north, Pacific Coast
Highway
from San Simian to Big Sur
Find the right brain
The sight of
the sky
The right brain
The sound of the ocean, the ocean
Find the
right brain
Hugging the curves
the right brain
As the sun sets
The right brain
Through the trees into the sea
Time flies -- Time
dies
Right brain
Can't find the right brain
I can't find the right
brain
Right brain
Find the right brain
Like driving her head over
the edge of the bed
Breathing the only sound
Find the right brain
The touch of her skin
The right brain
The sound of the ocean, the
ocean
Find the right brain
Hugging the curves
The right brain
As
you enter the right brain
Through her thighs into the sea
Time flies
I never needed to concentrate before
Time dies
(a knock on
the door)
The door
Top
LIGHT MY CANDLE
ROGER
I'm not going
MIMI
Got
a light?
ROGER
I know you?
You're -- you're
shivering
MIMI
It's nothing
They turned off my heat
And
I'm just a little
Weak on my feet
Would you light my candle?
What
are you staring at?
ROGER
Nothing
Your hair in the
moonlight
You look familiar
Can you make it?
MIMI
Just
haven't eaten much today
At least the room stopped spinning
Anyway.
What?
ROGER
Nothing
Your smile reminded me of --
MIMI
I always remind people of -- who is
she?
ROGER
She died. Her name was April
MIMI
It's out again
Sorry about your friend
Would you
light my candle?
ROGER
Well --
MIMI
Yeah.
Ow!
ROGER
Oh, the wax -- it's
MIMI
Dripping!
I like it -- between my --
ROGER
Fingers! I figured...
Oh,
well. Goodnight.
(another knock)
It blew out
again?
MIMI
No -- I think that I dropped my stash
ROGER
I know I've seen you out and about
When I used to go
out
Your candle's out
MIMI
I'm illin' --
I had it when
I walked in the door
It was pure --
Is it on the floor?
ROGER
The floor?
MIMI
They say I have the
best ass below 14th street
Is it true?
ROGER
What?
MIMI
You're staring again
ROGER
Oh no!
I
mean you do -- have a nice
I mean -- you look familiar
MIMI
Like your dead girlfriend?
ROGER
Only
when you smile
But I'm sure I've seen you somewhere else
MIMI
Do you go to the Cat Scratch Club
That's where I work
-- I dance -- Help me look
ROGER
Yes!
They used to tie you
up --
MIMI
It's a living
ROGER
I didn't
recognize you
Without the handcuffs
MIMI
We could light
the candle
Oh won't you light the candle
ROGER
Why don't
you forget that stuff
You look like you're sixteen
MIMI
I'm nineteen -- but I'm old for my age
I'm just born
to be bad
ROGER
I once was born to be bad
I used to shiver
like that
MIMI
I have no heat -- I told
you
ROGER
I used to sweat
MIMI
I got a
cold
ROGER
Uh huh
I used to be a junkie
MIMI
But now and then I like to --
ROGER
Uh
huh
MIMI
Feel good
ROGER
Here it -- oh
no
MIMI
What's that?
ROGER
Candy bar
wrapper
MIMI
We could light the candle
Oh what'd you do
with my candle?
ROGER
That was my last
match
MIMI
Our eyes'll adjust
Thank God for the moon
ROGER
Maybe it's not the moon at all
I hear Spike Lee's
shooting down the street
MIMI
Bah humbug ... bah
humbug
ROGER
Cold hands
MIMI
Yours too
Big,
like my father's
You wanna dance?
ROGER
With
you?
MIMI
No -- with my father
ROGER
I'm
Roger
MIMI
They call me
they call me Mimi
Top
CHRISTMAS BELLS
HOMELESS MAN
Christmas bells are
ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are
ringing
Somewhere else
Not here
Top
VOICE MAIL #2
MAUREEN
Hi, you've reached Maureen and
Joanne. Leave a message and don't forget Over the Moon, my performance
protesting the 11th Street re-zoning. Tonight at 1 am in the 11th street lot
between A and B. Party at Life Cafe to follow. (BEEP)
MR.
JEFFERSON
Well, Joanne -- we're off
Call Daisy for our itinerary or
Alfred at Pound Ridge
Or Eileen at the state department in a pinch
We'll
be at the spa for New Year's
unless the senator changes his mind
MRS. JEFFERSON
The hearings
MR. JEFFERSON
Oh
yes -- Muffin
Mummy's confirmation hearing begins on the tenth
We'll
need you -- alone -- by the sixth
For the briefings and the luncheon on the
eighth
MRS. JEFFERSON
Harold!
MR.
JEFFERSON
You hear that?
It's three weeks away
And she's already
nervous
MRS. JEFFERSON
I am not!
MR.
JEFFERSON
For Mummy's sake, Muffin
No Doc Martens this time and wear
a dress
Oh, and Muffin -- have a merry
MRS. JEFFERSON
And
a bra!
Top
FEMALE TO FEMALE #2
MAUREEN
Did you check the hall?
JOANNE
I checked
MAUREEN
Underneath the
bed?
JOANNE
Right
MAUREEN
At the studio, no
RCA's
And we're dead
JOANNE
Hang
tight
MAUREEN
The cops are clearing out the lot by
morning
JOANNE
It's true,
Maureen
MAUREEN
We'll lose our shot
My piece could be a
warning
JOANNE
What should I do,
Maureen?
MAUREEN
It's times like these I really appreciate
Mark
JOANNE
I heard you before
MAUREEN
How can
someone so bright
Be so utterly in the dark?
JOANNE
Look,
no more!
Isn't it enough that I scratch your every
itch?
MAUREEN
Bitch!
JOANNE
Isn't it enough
that I pay for all of
this?
MAUREEN
Kiss!
JOANNE
Isn't it enough
that I put up every day
with a temperamental, selfish, abusive,
MAUREEN
Sexy!
JOANNE
All right,
sexy...
MAUREEN
Talented, brilliant
JOANNE
Infuriating
MAUREEN
Funny
JOANNE
Immature
MAUREEN
Post-modern
goddess!
JOANNE
And oh-so modest
MAUREEN
Kiss
me!
JOANNE
I adore your eyes
I adore your
eyes
MAUREEN
And my lousy reviews
JOANNE
And
your lousy --
MAUREEN
Hey!
JOANNE
It's one
little pen
MAUREEN
I know
JOANNE
So The Times
ain't a rag
MAUREEN
Oh no
JOANNE
One day
they'll beg to carve a statue of you!
MAUREEN
I love you more
each day
JOANNE
I love you,
Maureen!
MAUREEN
RCA! On the table
If you love me run home
and bring back the cable
JOANNE
I hate you,
Maureen!
MAUREEN
Run
JOANNE
Yes,
Maureen
MAUREEN
If you fly I promise I will kiss you in a
thousand places
JOANNE
The mind races, my
queen
MAUREEN
The feet race
The feet race -- go!
JOANNE
Go over your speech
MAUREEN
Go home or
I'll screech!
JOANNE & MAUREEN
Female to female, female to
female
MAUREEN
My speech: Last night I had this,shit! This
what? This dream. Last night I had this dream, last night I had this dream, last
night I had this dream, last night I had this...
female to female
Top
ANOTHER DAY
ROGER
Who do you think you are?
Barging in on
me and my guitar
Little girl - hey
The door is that way
You better
go you know
The fire's out anyway
Take the powder -- take your candle
Your sweet whisper
I just can't handle
Well take your hair in the
moonlight
Your brown eyes -- Goodbye, goodnight
I should tell you -- I
should tell you
I should tell you -- I should -- no!
Another time --
another place
Our temperature would climb
There'd be a long embrace
We'd do another dance
It'd be another play
Looking for romance?
Come back another day
Another day
Another, another day
Another,
another day
MIMI
Your pain I see -- your heart's been
burned
You're just like me before I learned
There is no future
There
is no past
I live this moment
As my last
There's only us
There's
only this
Forget regret
Or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today
ROGER
Excuse me if I'm
off track
But if you're so wise
then tell me -- why do you need smack?
Honey, get real
Here's the deal
It's time for you to book
I mean
look you're cute
But I don't buy that schpiel
Take your needle
Take
your fancy prayer
And don't forget
Get the moonlight out of your hair
Long ago you might've lit up my heart
But the fire's dead -- ain't never
ever gonna start
Another time -- another place
The words would only
rhyme
We'd be in outer space
It'd be another song
We'd sing another
way
You wanna prove me wrong?
Come back another day
Another day
MIMI
Your anger's real -- but just beware
It's a waste to
feel that fate's unfair
There's no such thing as tragedy
I can't resent
what's meant to be
There's only yes
Only tonight
We must let go
To know what's right
No other course
No other way
No day but
today
MIMI & COMPANY
I can't control
my destiny
I
trust my soul
My only goal
Is just -- to be
There's only now
There's only here
Give in to love
Or live in fear
No other path
No other way
No day but today
ROGER
Control your
temper
She doesn't see
Who says that there's a soul
Just let me be
Who do you think you are?
Barging in on me and my guitar
Little
girl, hey
The door is that way
The fire's out anyway
MIMI
& COMPANY
No day but today
No day but today
No day but
today
No day but today
No day but today
ROGER
Take the
powder
Take the candle
Take your whisper
Take your moonlit hair
Take your brown eyes
Your pretty smile
Your silhouette
Another
time
Another place
Another rhyme
A warm embrace
Another
dance
Another way
Another chance
Another day
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CHRISTMAS BELLS #2
THREE HOMELESS PEOPLE
Christmas bells are
ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Out of
town
Santa Fe
SQUEEGEEMAN
Honest living, man!
Feliz
Navidad!
HOMELESS PERSON
Evening,
officers
MARK
Smile for Ted Koppel, Officer
Martin!
HOMELESS PERSON
And a Merry Christmas to your
family
POLICE OFFICERS
Right!
HOMELESS
PERSON
Who the fuck do you think you are?
I don't need no goddamn
help
From some bleeding heart cameraman
My life's not for you to
Make a name for yourself on!
ANGEL
Easy, sugar, easy
He
was just trying to --
HOMELESS PERSON
Just trying to use me to
kill his guilt
It's not that kind of movie, honey
Let's go -- This lot is
full of motherfucking artists
Hey artist - got a dollar?
I thought
not
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SANTA FE
ANGEL
New York City --
MARK
Uh
huh
ANGEL
Center of the universe
COLLINS
Sing
it girl --
ANGEL
Times are shitty
But I'm pretty sure they
can't get worse
MARK
I hear you
ANGEL
It's a
comfort to know When you're singing the hit-the-road blues
that anywhere
else you could possibly go after New York
would be a pleasure
cruise
COLLINS
Now you're talking
Well, I'm thwarted by a
metaphysic puzzle
And I'm sick of grading papers - that I know
And I'm
shouting in my sleep, I need a muzzle
All this misery pays no salary, so
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Oh sunny Santa Fe would be
nice
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
And leave this to the roaches
and mice
ANGEL
You teach?
COLLINS
I teach --
Computer Age Philosophy
But my students would rather watch
TV
ANGEL
America!
ALL
America!
ANGEL
I
preach!
MARK
Hallelujah!
ANGEL
I beat the drum
of apocalypse
like orchestras on sinking ships
COLLINS
America!
ALL
America!
COLLINS
You're a
sensitive aesthete
Brush the sauce onto the meat
You could make the menu
sparkle with rhyme
You could drum a gentle drum
I could seat guests as
they come
chatting not about Heidegger, but wine!
We'll open up a
restaurant in Santa Fe
ANGEL, MARK & HOMELESS
Santa
Fe
COLLINS
Our labors would reap financial
gains
ANGEL, MARK & HOMELESS
Gains, gains,
gains
COLLINS
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
And
save from devastation our brains
MAN
Save our
brains
ALL
We'll pack up all our junk and fly so far
away
Devote ourselves to projects that sell
We'll open up a restaurant in
Santa Fe
COLLINS
Forget this cold Bohemian hell
Do you know
the way to Santa Fe?
You know, tumbleweeds...prairie dogs...Yeah
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I'LL COVER YOU
MARK
Oh my God!
COLLINS &
ANGEL
What?
MARK
Maureen! Quick, don't look. Is she
with anyone?
ANGEL
You said not to
look.
MARK
Shit!
COLLINS
She's
alone.
MARK
That's it.
(MARK
exits)
ANGEL
We'll never be that
desperate
COLLINS
You'll never have to
be
ANGEL
I've been hearing violins all
night!
COLLINS
Anything to do with me? Are we a
thing?
ANGEL
Darling... we're everything!
Live in my
house
I'll be your shelter
Just pay me back
With one thousand kisses Be
my lover -- I'll cover you
COLLINS
Open your door
I'll be
your tenant
Don't got much baggage
To lay at your feet
But sweet kisses
I've got to spare
I'll be there -- I'll cover you
BOTH
I
think they meant it
When they said you can't buy love
Now I know you can
rent it
A new lease you are, my love,
on life -- be my life
Just slip
me on
I'll be your blanket
Wherever -- whatever -- I'll be your
coat
ANGEL
You'll be my king
And I'll be your
castle
COLLINS
No you'll be my queen
And I'll be your
moat
BOTH
I think they meant it
When they said you can't buy
love
Now I know you can rent it
A new lease you are, my love, on
life
All my life
I've longed to discover
Something as true as this
is
COLLINS
So with a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover
you
With a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover you
ANGEL
If
you're cold and you're lonely
You've got one nickel only
With a thousand
sweet kisses
I'll cover you
With a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover
you
COLLINS
When you're worn out and tired
when your heart
has expired
BOTH
Oh lover I'll cover you
Oh lover I'll cover
you
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WILL I?
STEVE
Will I lose my dignity
Will someone
care
Will I wake tomorrow
From this nightmare?
GROUP
#1
Will I lose my dignity
Will someone care
Will I wake
tomorrow
From this nightmare?
GROUP #2
Will I lose my
dignity
Will someone care
Will I wake tomorrow
From this
nightmare?
GROUP #3
Will I lose my dignity
Will someone
care
Will I wake tomorrow
From this nightmare?
GROUP
#4
Will I lose my dignity
Will someone care
Will I wake
tomorrow
From this nightmare?
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YOU'LL GET OVER IT
MAUREEN
It's times like these I really
appreciate - Mark!
Dear, I'm so glad you're here! Honey, baby!
You've lost
some weight...
I mean you've always looked great
MARK
I try
Maureen
MAUREEN
Back when we used to
date
MARK
You lie Maureen
MAREEN
Now let's not
get irate
MARK
Why Maureen?
MAUREEN
Joanne ran
for the cable but of course she's late
MARK
I don't know why I
even try Maureen
MAUREEN
My samples won't delay, but the
cable...
MARK
There's another way
Say something,
anything
MAUREEN
Test -- one, two, one, two,
three
MARK
Anything but that
Tell me what it's
like
MAUREEN
What?
MARK
With a girl --
Tell
me what it's like for a girl and a girl
MAUREEN
No
way!
MARK
Tell me -- or I walk
away
MAUREEN
It's amazing!
MARK
Who's on
top?
Who wears the pants?
Who leads when you dance?
Give me one more
chance Maureen
This is just a phase like girls and horses
And you never
even wore flannel shirts
You'll get over it
MAUREEN
How's it
going?
MARK
Not good -- I'm
depressed
MAUREEN
I meant the sampler
MARK
I'm
adapting - repatching
MAUREEN
Thank God! You're the
best!
MARK
Ha!
MAUREEN
Don't be
depressed
Tell me how you've
been
MARK
Why?
MAUREEN
'Cause I care
--
Tell me how you've been
God time flies
MARK
Don't
patronize!
MAUREEN
Tell me
We used to be
friends
MARK
I'm lonely, bored, and
horny!
MAUREEN
Is there no one new?
You need a mate
It's
not too late
Have you even had one date?
Boy, you just need some
time
Then you'll be fine, Mark
Anyway -- I treated you like dirt
You'll
get over it
Just remember what you hate about me
-- Though it may be hard
MARK
How can you be so content without me?
How can you
disregard all we
had?
MAUREEN
Dysfunction
MARK
All we
said
MAUREEN
I'm over men
MARK
All we
did
MAUREEN
I slept around
MARK
And you will
again
Tell me what you'll
do
MAUREEN
When?
MARK
When you're
bored
Tell me what you'll do when you tire of
girls
MAUREEN
I won't!
MARK
I'll tell you --
you'll run back to me!
MAUREEN
Your
fantasy
MARK
You always do
MAUREEN
Don't hold
your breath
MARK
I know your kind
Always change your
mind
MAUREEN
Don't be so blind
Can't you see?
All my life
I've known
Who I was meant to be
MARK
But you never even
liked KD Lang
MAUREEN
You'll get over
it
MARK
This is just a fad that will fade
You'll get over
it
MAUREEN
You just need to get laid
You'll get over
it
In time we'll laugh about this
You'll get over
it
MARK
In time you'll beg for my
kiss
MAUREEN
Don't bet on it
MARK
Try it
now
MAUREEN
You'll get over it
("You'll get over it"
echoes)
Grrr!
MARK
I call this cause for
hope
MAUREEN
I would call this platonic -- don't
grope
(JOANNE enters)
Honey! You're back!
Uh -- we're
patched.
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CHRISTMAS BELLS #3
HOMELESS
Christmas bells are
ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are
ringing
Somewhere else
not here
MAN
Honest
living
Honest living
Honest living...
HOMELESS
Christmas
bells are singing
Christmas bells are singing
Christmas bells are
singing
On TV -- at Saks
Can't you spare a dime or two
Here before
the grace of God, won't you
You'll be merry
I'll be merry
Tho merry
aint in my vocabulary
No sleighbells
No Santa Claus
No yule
log
No tinsel
No holly
No hearth
No Rudolph the Red-nosed
Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
No room at the Holiday Inn -- Oh
no
And it's beginning to snow
VENDORS
Hats, bags, shoes,
booze
Mountain bikes, potpourri
Leather bags, Girlie mags
Tommy guns,
AZT
MAN
No one's buying
Feel like
crying
HOMELESS
No Visa
No Mastercard
No Am-Ex
No
traveler's checks
No dollars
No cents
No Frosty the Snowman
Frosty
the snowman
No room at the Holiday Inn -- Oh no
And it's beginning to
snow
WOMAN
How about a fur
In perfect shape
Owned by an
MBA from uptown
I got a tweed
Broken in by a greedy
Broker who went
broke
And then broke down
MAN
Yeah,
baby
WOMAN
I got twenty yellow
French-cut
trenchcoats
Worn by Warren Beatty
In a movie -- for real
I got
cashmere
Or if you're thinking cash, dear
If you've got the cash
We're
here to deal
COLLINS
You don't have to do
this
ANGEL
Hush your mouth, it's
Christmas
COLLINS
I do not deserve you, Angel
Give --
give
All you do
Is give
Give me some way to show
How you've touched
me so
ANGEL
Wait -- What's on the floor?
Let's see some
more
No - No - No - No
Kiss me, it's beginning to
snow
MARK
She said "Would you light my candle"
And she put
on a pout
And she wanted you
To take her out
tonight?
ROGER
Right
MARK
That's
great!
ROGER
She was more than OK
But I pushed her
away
It was bad -- I got mad
And I had to get her out of my
sight
MARK
Wait, wait wait -- You said she was
sweet
ROGER
Let's go eat -- I'll just get fat
It's the one
vice left when you're dead meat
No kisses...
MARK
I saw
Maureen
ROGER
No alcohol
MARK
She's in the
lot
ROGER
No sex
MARK
She's still my
care
ROGER
Look that's her
there
MARK
Where?
ROGER
There -- That's
her
MARK
Maureen?
ROGER
Mimi!
MARK
Wo!
ROGER
I
should go
BOTH
Hey -- it's beginning to
snow
COPS
I'm dreaming of a white, right
Christmas
MIMI & JUNKIES
Follow the man -- Follow the
man
With his pockets full of the jam
Follow the man -- Follow the
man
Help me out, Daddy, if you can
Got any D Man?
THE
MAN
I'm cool
MIMI & JUNKIES
Got any C
man?
THE MAN
I'm cool
MIMI & JUNKIES
Got
any X
Any smack
Any horse
Any Jugie Boogie Boy
Any blow?
I'm
willin' -- I'm illin'
I gotta get my sickness off
Gotta run, gotta
ride
Gotta gun, gotta hide, gotta go
MAN
I
know
ROGER
Hey
MIMI
Hey
ROGER
I
just wanna say
MIMI
What?
ROGER
I just wanna
say
THE MAN
Hey man, you're in my space
I shoulda known that
familiar face
Where ya been buying?
Some other place?
Is this your
lovely lady?
Lookin good, Ace
ROGER
I just wanna say
I'm
sorry for the way
MIMI
Forget it
ROGER
I blew
up
Can I make it up to
you?
MIMI
How?
ROGER
Dinner
party?
MIMI
That'll do
THE MAN
Hey loverboy --
cutie-pie
you steal my client -- you die
ROGER
You didn't
miss me -- you won't miss her
You'll never lack for
customers
JUNKIES
I'm willin' -- I'm illin'
I gotta get my
sickness off
Gotta run, gotta ride
Gotta gun, gotta hide -- gotta
go
THE MAN
And it's beginning to
snow
MAUREEN
Joanne!
JOANNE
Alright,
Maureen!
JUNKIES
Got any C man?
Got any D man?
Got any B
man?
Got any Crack?
Got any X?
VENDOR
L.L. Bean, Geoffrey
Beene
Burburry zip out lining
ROGER
Mark, this is
Mimi
She'll be dining with us
VENDOR
Here's a new
arrival
THE MAN
That is an ounce
VENDORS
Hats,
dats, bats
COLLINS
That's my coat!
VENDOR
We
give discounts
MARK
I think we've
met
ANGEL
Let's get a better one
COLLINS
It's
a sham
MIMI
That's what he said
THE MAN
I said
it's a gram!
COLLINS
But she's a
thief
ANGEL
But she brought us
together!
VENDORS
Shoes, boots,
screws
COLLINS
I'll take the leather
HOMELESS &
VENDORS (from book -- may not be actual lyrics)
Christmas bells
are swinging
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are singing
In
my dreams -- Next year
Once you donate, you can go
Celebrate in
Tuckahoe
You'll feel cheery
I'll feel cherry
Tho I don't really know
that theory
No bathrobe
No steuben glass
No cappucino makers
No
pearls, no diamonds
No Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Chestnuts
roasting on an open fire
No room at the Holiday Inn -- Oh
no
COPS
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones
I used to know
Jingle bells -- prison cells
Fa la la la la -- fa la la la
la
You have the right to remain
Silent night holy night
Fall on
your knees oh night divine
You'll do some time
Fa la la la la
Fa la la
la la
JUNKIES
Got any C man?
Got any D man?
Got any B
man?
Got any X? Crack?
I'm willin' -- I'm illin'
I gotta get my
sickness off
C-D help me
Follow the man follow the man
Follow the
man
Jugie boogie jugie boogie
Follow the man follow the man
Any
crack any x any jugie boogie boy
Any blow any x any jugie boogie boy
Got
any D man got any C man
Got any X any jugie boogie
COAT
VENDOR
Twenty-five
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT
VENDOR
Twenty-five
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT
VENDOR
No
way
Twenty-four
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT
VENDOR
Twenty-four
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT
VENDOR
Not
today
Twenty-three
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT
VENDOR
Twenty-three
ANGEL
Fifteen
It's
old
COAT
VENDOR
Twenty-two
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT
VENDOR
Twenty-one
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT
VENDOR
Seventeen
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT
VENDOR
Fifteen
ANGEL & COAT
VENDOR
Sold!
MARK & ROGER
Let's
Go to
The lot
-- Maureen's performing
MIMI
Who's
Maureen?
ROGER
His ex
MARK
But I am over
her
ROGER
Let's not hold hands yet
MIMI
Is
that a warning?
ALL THREE
He/You/I
Just
Need(s)
To
take it slow
I should tell you I should tell you
I should tell you I
should tell you
I should tell you I ...
ALL
And it's
beginning to
And it's beginning to
And it's beginning to
--
MAUREEN
Last night I had this
dream
ALL
Snow!
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OVER THE MOON
MAUREEN
Last night, I had this dream. I dreamt I
was in a desert. It was hot. My canteen had sprung a leak and I was thirsty. I
happened upon a herd of cattle. They too were lost. Even worse -- they were
blind. I asked a cow, Elsie, what blind cattle were doing in the desert. She
said she wasn't blind. She was visually challenged. She gauged her eyes out! She
gauged her eyes out! Did you sleep with your mother and murder your father, I
asked. "Worse," she said. "I got cable." She said, "Only thing to do is jump
over the moon. Only thing to do is jump over the moon." Wait a minute. I have
cable too, I said. But I haven't blinded myself and wandered into the desert. My
lips were chapped and dried. I needed a Diet Coke. "This desert was once an
orchard," she said. "And the fruit that grew here was rare-fertilized with milk
and honey. They laid the cable. And the fruit dies. Only one way to
restore..."
BACKUPS
Leap of faith, leap of faith
Leap of
faith, leap of faith
MAUREEN
"Only thing to do is jump over the
moon. Only thing to do is jump over the moon". Children, artists, lovers, jump
over the moon every day! I can't get off the ground! Children, artists, lovers
possess the to awe, compassion, imagination. Cows do not! It's like I've got
this meat hook stuck in my back. Fastened to a long, black cable! I blinded
myself cuz I wanted to see. To jump over the moon.
BACKUPS
Leap
of faith, leap of faith
Leap of faith, leap of
faith
MAUREEN
Only thing to do is jump over the moon. Then
another cow approached, Ferdinand. "That's bull", he said. "Their eyes gave out
cuz they read too many books and newspapers. They thought they saw degradation
-- it was depravity. They thought they saw greed -- it was merely survival. They
thought they saw disease -- it was justice. This is just a dry spell. Before we
know it, the fruit will reappear". "Not without a leap of faith," Elsie said.
She asked if I was still thirsty. Parched. "Have some milk." I lowered myself
beneath her. Held my mouth up to her swollen udder and sucked the sweetest milk
I had ever tasted.
(sucking noise)
And as I wiped my mouth
off with my pajama sleeve, a harvest moon rose out of the dream horizon. Elsie
reared back and sprang into a gallop! Leaping, finally she was airborne! Soaring
over the desert, beyond the cable, until she was zooming out of orbit! And I
awoke singing...
BACKUPS
Leap of faith, leap of faith
Leap
of faith, leap of faith
MAUREEN
Only thing to do
Only thing
to do is jump
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
Only thing to do is
jump over the moon
The moon -- The
moooon
Mooooooooooon
Moooooooooooo
Moooooooooooo
Thank you.
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LA VIE BOHEME
RESTAURANT MAN
No please no
Not tonight
please no
Mister -- can't you go
Not tonight -- can't have a
scene!
ROGER
What?
RESTAURANT MAN
Go, please
go
You -- hello sir --
I said no
Important customer
MARK
What am I -- Just a blur?
RESTAURANT MAN
You sit all
night -- you never buy
ROGER
That's a lie -- That's a lie
I
had a tea the other day
RESTAURANT MAN
You couldn't
pay
ROGER
Oh yeah
COLLINS
Benjamin Coffin III
-- here?
RESTAURANT MAN
Oh no!
ALL
Wine and
beer!
MAUREEN
The enemy of Avenue A
We'll
stay
RESTAURANT MAN
Oiy Vey!
COLLINS
What
brings our distinguished slum lord to the Life Cafe?
BENNY
Hold
on boys
Gotta do a little business
So you're off the hook for
now
ROGER
The video franchise?
BENNY
Who said
you're not
smart?
ROGER
Blockbuster
GIRLS
Blockbuster?
PERSON
Blockbuster!
MAUREEN
Wow!
BENNY
Mimi
-- I'm surprised
A bright and charming girl like you
Hangs out with these
slackers
They make fun -- yet I'm the one
Attempting to do some good
Or
do you really want a neighborhood
Where people piss on your stoop every
night?
Bohemia, Bohemia's
A fallacy in your head
This is
Calcutta
Bohemia is dead
MARK
Dearly beloved
We gather
here to say our good-byes
COLLINS & ROGER
Dies irae -- dies
illa (etc)
MARK
Here she lies
No one knew her worth
The
late great daughter of mother earth
On this night when we celebrate the
birth
In that little town of Bethlehem
We raise our glass -- you bet your
ass to --
La vie Boheme
ALL
La vie Boheme
La vie
Boheme
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
MARK
To days of
inspiration
Playing hookey, making something out of nothing
The need to
express --
To communicate,
To going against the grain,
Going
insane
Going mad
To loving tension, no pension
To more than one
dimension,
To starving for attention,
Hating convention, hating
pretension
Not to mention of course,
Hating dear old mom and dad
To
riding your bike,
Midday past the three piece suits
To fruits -- to no
absolutes --
To Absolut -- to choice --
To the Village Voice --
To any
passing fad
To being an us for once
Instead of a
them
ALL
La vie Boheme
La vie
Boheme
MAUREEN
Is the equipment in a
pyramid?
JOANNE
It is, Maureen
MAUREEN
The
mixer doesn't have a case
Don't give me that face
(Maureen slaps
her)
LADY
Ahem!
MAUREEN
Hey sister --
she's my sister
RESTAURANT MAN
So that's five miso soup, four
seaweed salad
Three soy burger dinner, two tofu dog platter
And one pasta
with meatless balls
GIRL
Ugh
COLLINS
It tastes
the same
MIMI
If you close your eyes
RESTAURANT
MAN
And seven orders of fries
Is that it
here?
ALL
Wine and beer!
ANGEL & MIMI
To
hand-crafted beers made in local breweries
To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and
beans and cheese
To leather, to dildos, to curry vindaloo
To huevos
rancheros and Maya Angelou
MAUREEN & COLLINS
Emotion,
devotion, to causing a commotion
Creation,
vacation
MARK
Mucho masturbation
MAUREEN &
COLLINS
Compassion, to fashion, to passion when it's
new
COLLINS
To Sontag
ANGEL
To
Sondheim
FOUR PEOPLE
To anything taboo
COLLINS &
ROGER
Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage
COLLINS
Lenny
Bruce
ROGER
Langston Hughes
MAUREEN
To the
stage
PERSON #1
To Uta
PERSON #2
To
Buddha
PERSON #3
Pablo Neruda, too
MARK &
MIMI
Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow
To blow off Auntie
Em
ALL
La vie Boheme
MAUREEN
And wipe the
speakers off before you pack
JOANNE
Yes,
Maureen
MAUREEN
Well -- hurry
back
LADY
Sisters?
MAUREEN
We're
close
ANGEL, COLLINS, MAUREEN, MARK
Brothers!
MARK,
ANGEL, MIMI & OTHERS
Bisexuals, trisexuals, homo
sapiens,
Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, Pee Wee Herman
German wine,
turpentine, Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa
Carmina
Burana
COLLINS, MAUREEN, ROGER & OTHERS
CBGBs, De la sota,
tabouli
Body fluids, KS lesions, funny looks
Transfusions, silence equals
death, dairy
Including Cannabis santiva, Camel lights
Carmen Miranda,
Nirvana
COLLINS
To marijuana
ALL
To sodomy,
It's between God and me
To S & M
BENNY
Waiter,
waiter, waiter
ALL
La vie Boheme
COLLINS
In
honor of the death of Bohemia, an impromptu salon will commence immediately
following dinner. Mimi Marquez, clad in bubble wrap, will perform her famous
lawn chair handcuff dance to the sounds of ice tea being
stirred!
ROGER
Mark Cohen will preview the documentary he'll
never finish, "The parting of the red sea" about his inability to hold an
erection on the high holy days, starring his former lover's current female lover
as himself!
MARK
And Maureen Johnson, back from a spectacular
one-night engagement at the 11th street lot, will sing Native American tribal
chants backward through her vocoder, while accompanying herself on the electric
cello -- which she has never studied!
(privately to
Maureen)
Meet you in the bathroom.
MAUREEN
You're
not serious?!
MARK
I am.
MAUREEN
How was the
show?
MARK
You know you're good
I'll bring the dental
dam
MAUREEN
Don't take this the wrong way
But Mark, honey,
take a hike
MARK
You wouldn't consider an auld lang syne
between friends!?
MAUREEN
Hello?! I'm a
dyke!
LADY
Another
brother?
MAUREEN
Ex-lover
PERSON
Roger will
attempt to commit to an ending to his bittersweet evocative guitar solo
symbolizing the death of Kinipsy!
MARK
Not now,
Roger.
COLLINS
Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall
fashions from Paris while accompanying herself on the ten-gallon plastic pickle
tub.
ANGEL
And Collins will recount to us his exploits as
anarchist, including the tale of his successful reprogramming of the MIT virtual
reality equipment to self-destruct as it broadcast the words:
ALL
"Actual reality -- Act Up -- Fight
AIDS"
MIMI
Excuse me -- did I do something wrong?
I get
invited -- then ignored -- all night long
ROGER
I've been
trying -- I'm not lying
No one's perfect. I've got
baggage
MIMI
Life's too short, babe, time is flying
I'm
looking for baggage that goes with mine
ROGER
I should tell you
--
MIMI
I've got baggage too
ROGER
I should
tell you
BOTH
Baggage -- wine --
OTHERS
And
beer!
GIRLS & GUYS (alternating)
Rest in
peace
Bon Voyage
Goodbye Bohemia
You're much to young to
die
ALL
Here's one last toast
For you our heart still
throbs
Send back your ghost
Or else we'll have to get real jobs
To
Dance!
MIMI & GIRL
No way to make a living, masochism,
pain, perfection
Muscle spasms, chiropractors, short careers, eating
disorders!
ALL
Film!
MARK
Adventure, tedium,
no family, boring locations,
Dark rooms, perfect faces, egos, money,
Hollywood and sleaze!
COLLINS, MAUREEN & MIMI
Music!
ANGEL & ROGER
Food of love, emotion,
mathematics, isolation,
Rhythm, feeling, power, harmony, and heavy
competition!
ALL
Anarchy!
MAUREEN
Revolution,
justice, screaming for solutions,
Forcing changes, risk, and danger
Making
noise and making pleas!
ALL
To faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross
dressers too
MAUREEN
To me
MARK
To
me
A PERSON
To me
ALL
To you, and you and you,
you and you
To people living with, living with, living with
Not dying from
disease
Let he among us without sin
Be the first to condemn
La vie
Boheme
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
MARK
Anyone out of the
mainstream
Is anyone in the mainstream?
Anyone alive--with a sex
drive
OTHERS
La vie boheme
La vie boheme
La vie
boheme
MARK
Tear down the wall
Aren't we all?
The
opposite of war isn't peace...
It's creation!
ALL
Viva La
Vie Boheme!
Top
AZT BREAK/ MAUREEN AND JOANNE'S FIGHT
(sound of beepers going
off)
COLLINS
AZT
break!
ANGEL
DDT!
MAUREEN
The ever-popular
DDC-Zovarc's-Prozac cocktail!
(JOANNE walks in on
MAUREEN)
This is not what you think.
JOANNE
Then
what? Why use it?
MAUREEN
Joanne, it's just
Mark.
ROGER
You?
MIMI
Me --
you?
ROGER
Mimi
JOANNE
By the way -- I almost
forgot
They're rioting back at the lot
Benny says evict
Cops don't know
what they're doing
No one's leaving
They're sitting there mooing
Thank
you Joanne
For everything you've done -- oh don't mention it
I love being
a wreck
WAITER
I'll bring the check
Top
I SHOULD TELL YOU
ROGER
I should tell you
I should tell
you
MIMI
I should tell you
I should tell
you
ROGER
I should tell you I'm disaster
I forget how to
begin it
MIMI
Let's just make this part go faster
I have yet
-- to be in it
I should tell you
ROGER
I should tell
you
MIMI
I should tell you
ROGER
I should tell
you
MIMI
I should tell that I can't sleep at night
I'm
scared to close my eyes
ROGER
Lately I'm so filled with
fright
I rarely share -- I criticize
MIMI
I should tell
you
ROGER
I should tell you
MIMI
I should tell
you
ROGER
I should tell you
MIMI
I should tell
my style of fighting
I don't move, gaze or speak
ROGER
I get
flustered with my writing --
Catatonic for a week
MIMI
I
should tell you
ROGER
I should tell you
MIMI
I
should tell you
BOTH
I should tell --
Well, here we
go
Now we --
MIMI
Oh no!
ROGER
I know --
this something is
Here goes
MIMI
Here
goes
ROGER
Guess so
It's starting to
Who
knows
MIMI
Who knows
ROGER
Do what it
does
MIMI
We'll go where
ROGER
I know -- there
because
MIMI
Because we're starting
to
ROGER
Something
Guess so
MIMI
Who
knows
BOTH
Trusting desire -- starting to learn
Walking
through fire without a burn
Clinging -- a shoulder, a leap begins
Stinging
and older, asleep on pins
So here we go
Now we
--
ROGER
Oh no
MIMI
I
know
ROGER
Oh no
BOTH
Who knows where
Who
goes there
ROGER
Who knows
MIMI
Who
knows
ROGER
Who goes
MIMI
Who
goes
BOTH
Here goes -- Here goes
Here goes -- Here
goes
Here goes
Top
Rent Workshop Lyrics Act II
VOICE MAIL #3
(phone rings)
BENNY
The funeral is
today at 9 a.m. at the Meeting House on 11th Street in Avenue
B.
SECRETARY
If Mimi Marquez is at this number, please call Dr.
White at 338-4322. On Monday November 2nd between 3:00 and 3:15 your bloodwork
is in and it's vital you talk to the doctor. Also Mimi remember you also still
owe $111.68 on your last bill, the new one will cost $238.31, making your
October balance $349.99 -- due immediately. If Mimi is not at this number,
uh...Happy Halloween.
Top
SEASONS OF LOVE
COMPANY
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred moments so
dear
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you
measure -- measure a year?
In daylights -- In sunsets
In midnights --
In cups of coffee
In inches -- In miles
In laughter -- In strife
In
-- Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure a
year in the life?
How about love?
How about love?
How about
love?
Measure in love
Seasons of love
Seasons of
love
SOLOIST #1
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred
minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Journeys to plan
Five hundred
twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure the life
Of a
woman or a man?
SOLOIST #2
In truths that she learned
Or in
times that he cried
In bridges he burned
Or the way that she
died
ALL
It's time now - to sing out
Tho' the story never
ends
Let's celebrate
Remember a year in the life of
friends
Remember the love
Remember the love
Remember the
love
Measure in love
SOLOIST #1
Measure, measure your life
in love
Seasons of love
Seasons of love
Top
OUT TONIGHT
MIMI
What's the time?
Well it's gotta be
close to midnight
My body's talking to me
It says, "Time for danger"
It
says "I wanna commit a crime
Wanna be the cause of a fight
Wanna put on a
tight skirt and pretend
You're a stranger"
I've got an itch to be a
bitch
I need to laugh like a child
C'mon I've bought -- I know a
spot
Where it's hot not to go wild
We don't need any money
I always get
in for free
You can get in too
If you get in with me
Let's go out
tonight
I have to go out tonight
You wanna play?
Let's run away
We
won't be back till next Valentine's Day
Take me out tonight
(meow)
MAUREEN (Into phone)
Forget me not?
I can't
forget you, Mark
It's like forgetting a brother a friend -- that too
Well,
thanks for the -- Mark stop crying!
No, this is not a phase I'm going
through
MIMI
I've had a knack from way back
At breaking the
rules once I learn the games
Get up - life's too quick
I know someplace
sick
Where this chick'll dance in the flames
When I get a wink from
the doorman
Do you know how lucky you'll be?
That you're on line with the
feline of Avenue B
Let's go out tonight
I have to go out
tonight
You wanna prowl
Be my night owl?
Well take my hand we're gonna
howl
Out tonight
ANGEL (In the background)
He loves
me -- he loves me more
He loves me -- he loves me more
(etc.)
MAUREEN
It's me.
JOANNE
Traditional
Chinese medicine offers a holistic approach -- using
acupuncture.
MAUREEN
Do I care?
JOANNE
Not if
you don't!
MAUREEN
Kiss?
JOANNE
No - I can't
take this!
MIMI
In the evening I've got to roam
Can't sleep
in the city of neon and chrome
Feels too damn much like home
When the
Spanish babies cry
So let's find a bar
So dark we forget who we are
And
all the scars from the
Nevers and maybes die
Let's go out
tonight
Have to go out tonight
You're sweet
Wanna hit the
street?
Wanna wail at the moon like a cat in heat?
Just take me out
tonight
Please take me out tonight
Don't forsake me -- out
tonight
I'll let you make me -- out tonight
Tonight -- tonight --
tonight
Top
SEASONS OF LOVE #2
COMPANY
In diapers -- report cards
In
spoke wheels -- in speeding tickets
In contracts -- dollars
In funerals --
in births
In -- five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How
do you figure
A last year on earth?
Figure in love
Figure in
love
Figure in love
Measure in love
Seasons of love
Seasons of
love
Top
VOICE MAIL #4
(phone rings once)
MAUREEN
April is
the cruelest month. You can reach Joanne at 784-3321. Anyone but Mark -- please
leave a message.
(Dial tone as Mark hangs up the phone)
Top
WITHOUT YOU
MAUREEN
Without you
The ground thaws
The
rain falls
The grass grows
Without you
The seeds root
The
flowers bloom
The children play
The stars gleam
The poets
dream
The eagles fly
Without you
The earth turns
The sun
burns
But I die
Without you
Without you
The breeze warms
The
girl smiles
The cloud moves
Without you
The tides change
The
boys run
The oceans crash
The crowds roar
The days soar
The
babies cry
Without you
The moon glows
The river flows
But I
die
Without you
JOANNE
The world
revives
MAUREEN
Colors renew
BOTH
But I know
blue
Only blue
Lonely blue
Within me, blue
Without
you
MAUREEN
Without you
The hand gropes
The ear
hears
The pulse beats
JOANNE
Without you
The eyes
gaze
The legs walk
The lungs breathe
BOTH
The mind
churns
The heart yearns
The tears dry
Without you
Life goes
on
But I'm gone
MAUREEN
Cause I die
Without
you
JOANNE
Without you
BOTH
Without you
Top
VOICE MAIL #5
(phone rings once)
COLLINS
We went
to steal an air-conditioner.
ANGEL
We'll be right
back.
STUDENT
Um, professor Collins, um, I'll be a freshman in
your class this fall. Um, the summer reading list, um, the bookstore in Dayton
didn't have "The Story of O". So I'm wondering -- he said he was gonna steal an
air-conditioner! Maybe this isn't the right number.
Top
CONTACT
COMPANY
Hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet
Wet-wet-wet-red-heat
Hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet
Wet-wet-wet-red-heat
Hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet
Wet-wet-wet-red-heat
Sticky-licky-trickle-tickle
Steamy-creamy-soaking-stoking
COLLINS
Touch!
MAUREEN
Taste!
MIMI
Deep!
COLLINS
Dark!
MAUREEN
Kiss!
COLLINS
Beg!
MIMI
Slap!
MIMI,
MAUREEN &
COLLINS
Fear!
COLLINS
Thick!
COLLINS, MIMI
& MAUREEN
Red, red
Red, red
Red, red --
please
MAUREEN
Harder
ANGEL
Faster
MAUREEN
Wetter
MIMI
Bastard
COLLINS
You
whore
MAUREEN
You cannibal!
MIMI &
ANGEL
More!
MAUREEN
You animal!
MAUREEN,
COLLINS & MIMI
Fluid no fluid no contact yes
No
contact
ALL
Fire fire burn--burn yes!
No latex rubber
rubber
Fire latex rubber latex bummer
Lover
bummer
ANGEL
Take me
Take me
Today for you
Tomorrow
for me
Today me
Tomorrow you
Tomorrow you
Love
you
Love
you
I love
You I love
You!
Take me
Take me
I love
you
ROGER'S VOICE
Um
JOANNE'S
VOICE
Wait
MIMI'S VOICE
Slipped
COLLINS'
VOICE
Shit
JOANNE'S VOICE
Ow!
ROGER'S
VOICE
Where'd it go?
MIMI'S
VOICE
Safe
COLLINS' VOICE
Damn
MAUREEN'S
VOICE
I think I missed
Don't get pissed
ALL
It was
bad for me -- was it bad for you?
MAUREEN
Move
over
JOANNE
Move over
ROGER
It's
over
MIMI
It's over
COLLINS
It's over
Top
I'LL COVER YOU #2
MIMI
Angel was one of my closest friends. I
knew we'd hit it off the moment we met. This skinhead was bothering her and she
that she was more of a man he'd ever be and more of a woman then he'd ever
get.
MARK
Then there was this time when he walked right up to
this group of tourists and they were petrified because A, they were obviously
lost and B, they had probably never spoken to a drag queen before in their
lives. And he, she, offered to escort them out of Alphabet City and then let
them take a picture of her and then said she'd help them find the Circle
Line.
MAUREEN
You were so much more original then any of us.
You'd find an old tablecloth on the street and turn it into a dress and sure
enough next year they'd be mass producing them at The Gap. You always said how
lucky you felt that we were all friends, but it was us wasn't it? We were the
lucky ones.
COLLINS
Live in my house
I'll be your
shelter
Just pay me back
With one thousand kisses
Be my lover
And
I'll cover you
Open your door -- I'll be your tenant
Don't got much
baggage to lay at your feet
But sweet kisses I've got to spare
I'll be
there -- I'll cover you
I think they meant it
When they said you can't buy
love
Now I know you can rent it
A new lease you were, my love, on
life
All my life
I've longed to discover
Something as true
As this
is
SOLOIST #1
So with a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover you
with a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover you with a thousand sweet
kisses
I'll cover you iwht a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover
you
COLLINS
If you're cold and you're lonely
You've got one
nickel only
When you're worn out and tired
When your heart has
expired
COMPANY
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred
minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred moments so dear
Five
hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five
thousand six hundred -- measure a year
Oh lover I'll cover you
Oh lover
I'll cover you
Top
GOODBYE LOVE
MIMI
You said you that you were leaving town last
week
ROGER
You said that Benny was the most disgusting yuppie
scum of the earth
BENNY
You said you'd never speak to him
again
MIMI
Not now
MAUREEN
Who said that you
have any say in who she says things to at all?
JOANNE
You said
you'd stick to your own problems
MAUREEN
You said you'd give me
some space
JOANNE
Maureen, we have this fight each night
Why
can't you admit you need me
MARK
Everyone
please
MIMI
He was the same way -- he was always
"Run away
-- hit the road
Don't commit" -- you're full of
shit
BENNY
Mimi!
JOANNE
She's in
denial
MIMI
He's in denial
JOANNE
You gave an
inch
When I gave a mile
MIMI
I gave a
mile
ROGER
When you weren't trashed
BENNY &
MARK
C'mon guys chill!
JOANNE & MIMI
I'd be happy to
die
For a taste of what Angel had
MAUREEN
Don't give up
Joanne
JOANNE & MIMI
Someone to live
for
MAUREEN
I live for you -- I do
JOANNE &
MIMI
Unafraid to say I love you
ROGER
All your words are
nice Mimi
But love's not a one-way street
You'll never share real
love
Until you love yourself -- I should know
COLLINS
You
all said you'd be cool tonight
So please -- for my sake
I can't believe
he's gone
I can't believe you're going
ALL
I can't believe
this is goodbye
MARK
I hear there are great restaurants out
west
ROGER
Some of the best. How could
she?
MARK
How could you let her go?
ROGER
You
just don't know... How could we lose Angel?
MARK
Maybe you'll
see why if you face up to your pain
At least now if you try -- Angel's death
won't be in vain
ROGER
His death is in
vain
MARK
Use your right brain
There's so much to care
about
There's me, there's Mimi
ROGER
Mimi's got her baggage
too
MARK
So do you
ROGER
I don't know what I
am
What I know, what to do
MARK
Who
does?
ROGER
Oh God Mark -- Don't
you?
MARK
Mark has got his work
They say Mark lives for his
work
And Mark's in love with his work
Mark hides in his
work
ROGER
From what?
MARK
From facing my
failure
Facing my loneliness
Facing the fact I live a
lie
ROGER
You don't live a lie -- tell you why
You never
finished your film
Cause the standards you set for yourself are too
high
But the fact remains that you're the one of us
With the talent and
the drive
The fact remains, Mark
you're the one to
survive
MARK
I know
I'm afraid the burden's gonna make me
crack
ROGER
If it does just let me know - I'll come
back
MARK
Why's it easier to return to a friend
Than to burn
with a lover till the end?
ROGER
Not as much to
lose
MARK
Mimi still loves Roger
Mimi's just with
Benny
Cause Mimi's getting weak
ROGER
Mimi did look
pale
MARK
Mimi's gotten thin
Mimi's running out of
time
Roger's running out the door
ROGER
No more! Oh
no!
I've gotta go
MARK
Anything you need in Santa
Fe?
ROGER
I'll be fine -- make your
film
MARK
Okay. Love you! Call.
ROGER
Love you
too. I hate the fall.
(Mimi enters)
ROGER
You
heard?
MIMI
Every word
You don't want baggage without
lifetime guarantees
You don't want to watch me die
I just came to
say
Goodbye, love
Goodbye, love
Came to say goodbye, love,
goodbye
Just came to say
Goodbye love
Goodbye love
Goodbye
love
goodbye
ROGER
Right brain
How do I find the right
brain
I lost my map
MIMI
Goodbye love
Goodbye
love
Came to say goodbye, love, goodbye
Just came to say
Goodbye
love
Goodbye love
Goodbye love
Hello -- disease
Top
REAL ESTATE
MINISTER
Hey! I said I didn't want you on
these premise and I meant it! What do you think? We give hand outs
here?
MARK
Is that any way to send a boy to meet his
maker?
They should have known we couldn't pay the
undertaker
BENNY
What happened to rest in
peace?
MARK
It's true
And they wouldn't even take an IOU --
I give up
BENNY
Don't worry about him
I'll take care of
it
Alison make a note -- church donation
MARK
It must be
nice to have money.
BENNY
It is.
MARK
I don't
know why I do this anymore
I'm all alone and my films no prize
But I've
got the stuff -- at least everybody says so
All my friends have flown or are
dropping like flies
And if that's not enough I'm in love with a lezbo
My
rent is due, my family's nuts
I haven't had sex in a millenium
I'm stuck
with you -- I hate your guts
And it's only ten
am!
BENNY
Have you considered real
estate?
MARK
Real estate?
BENNY
Real
estate
Have you considered real estate as a career?
Could you consider
real estate?
MARK
Let me get this straight
--
BENNY
Could be great
Cohen and Coffin -- like Helmsley
and Speare
I know it may it sound silly
It's a notion I've had for a
while
Imagine us as affiliates
We could go to town
My savvy -- your
smile
There's art in every deal
Create with bricks and
steal
MARK
Real estate
I don't
know
ALISON
What's with him?
MARK
I start work
-- I don't complete
Am I uninspired, or just a perfectionist?
I'm such a
jerk, I don't compete
I can't get hired as a PA or a projectionist
I hate
my hair and my goatee
I talk in my sleep
But no one's there to
listen
Why do I care about film or TV?
What they ever do for
me?
BENNY
Have you considered real
estate?
ALISON
Real estate
BENNY
Real
estate!
MARK
I should consider real estate
My life is a
dump
BENNY
Do consider real estate
MARK
Real
estate
BENNY
We'll collaborate
Any fool can do it
Witness
Donald Trump
MARK
Maybe it's time to stop carousing
Do
something else more fulfilling
Couldn't we build low income
housing?
BENNY
That's an idea! I mean it!
Really!
MARK
It does have its
appeal
BENNY
Doing for the common deal
BENNY &
MARK
Real estate!
ALISON
Anyway, there ain't no money in
documentary film
I said there ain't no money in documentary film
And I
know there ain't no money cause folks get funny
They like things sunny, not
truthful, honey
There ain't no money in documentary films
Any idiot can
turn on a camera and shoot hobos
Developing property requires vision
Take
that site over there
Last year empty lot -- next year super store
Last
year filthy bum --
MARK
Person!
ALISON
Okay,
filthy person
Next year automatic double doors
Last year empty boxes
filled with strangers
Next year Might Morphin' Power
Rangers
MARK
I'm doomed forever to be poor
MARK,
ALISON & BENNY (done in a round - not all lyrics are
here)
There ain't no money in documentary films
There ain't no money
in documentary films
There ain't no money cause folks get funny
They like
things sunny, not truthful honey
There ain't no money in documentary
films
BENNY
Meet you back in
Scarsdale
ALISON
Last year crummy boho goon
Next year
corporate tycoon
BENNY
A team like Snow White and a
Dwarf
Like Edwin Coch and Steven Gorne
MARK
I'll never have
that kind of zeal
And my expose will soon reveal
I'm just not cut out
for...
ALL THREE
Real estate!
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OPEN ROAD
ROGER
Open road
Why does love erode?
Get away,
you can't stay away
Look away from the mirror now
Look straight out ahead
-- that's how
But how can you let her go?
Let her go
No, you can't save
the world
Better save your heart
Start to close the door
Look for open
road
Open road
Why can't I crack love's code?
Time to fly, no time to
say goodbye
Goodbye! Just try to forget her face
Just get yourself in the
race
There's a place that you have to go
Have to go
No, you can't heal
the pain
Better heal your heart
Start your motor up
Take up open
road
There's a hit and run cat on the highway
Another cat sits saying a
prayer
I swear as I pass she's laughing my way
Where did my love go, cry
her eyes
Where did my love go?
OPERATOR
The number you have
reached 675-8304 has been disconnected.
(dial
tone)
ROGER
Where did my love go?
No, you can't forget
her eyes
You'll still protect your heart
As you start for home
Breathe
it in and slow
You don't have to go
If your heart is open
Your heart is
open
Your heart is open road
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VOICE MAIL #7
(phone rings)
MARK &
ROGER
Speak!
ROGER'S MOTHER
Roger, this is your
mother
Roger, honey, I don't get these postcards
"Moving to Santa
Fe"
"Back in New York
Moving to Brooklyn"
Roger, where are you? --
Please call
MIMI'S MOTHER
Mimi, chica, donde estas?
Tu mama
esta llamando
Donde estas Mimi -- Call
MR. JEFFERSON
Muffin
-- wherever are you -- Call
MRS. COHEN
Mark -- are you there --
are you there
I don't know if he's there
We're all here wishing you were
here too
Where are you Mark are you there are you where are you
Mark --
are you there -- are you there
I don't know if -- Please call your mother
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CHRISTMAS BELLS #4
HOMELESS PEOPLE
Christmas bells are
ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
How
time flies
When compassion dies
No stockings
No candy canes
No
gingerbread
No safety net
No loose change
No change no
ONE
HOMELESS MAN
Santa Claus is coming
ALL
Cause Santa Claus
ain't coming
No room at the Holiday Inn -- again
Well, maybe next
year
Or -- when
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RENT #3
ROGER
If I got a rope and hung myself
My face
bright blue
My sneakers dangling in the air
MARK
If I
bought an AK47
Shot myself
Would anyone care?
ROGER
Like
Quentin Tarantino
MARK
Fuck, what does he
know?
BOTH
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna
pay last years...
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FINALE
(Enter Collins)
COLLINS
Salutations!
I
had a little hunch that you could use a little
flow
ROGER
Tutoring
again?
COLLINS
Negative
MARK
Back at
N.Y.U.?
COLLINS
No, no, no
I rewired the ATM at the food
emporium
To provide an honorarium to anyone with the code
ROGER
& MARK
The code
--
Well...?
COLLINS
A-N-G-E-L
Yet Robin Hooding isn't the
solution
The powers that be must be undermined where they dwell
In a
small, exclusive gourmet institution
Where we overcharge the wealthy
clientele
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
MARK &
ROGER
Santa Fe
COLLINS
With a private corner banquette
all our own
MARK & ROGER
All our
own
COLLINS
We'll make it yet, we'll somehow get to Santa
Fe
MARK & ROGER
Santa Fe!
ROGER
In a car
this time that makes it past
ALL THREE
Oh
(enter
Benny)
BENNY
Espresso Alison, espresso Alison
And Sam
Boom and Salukis closed
We are the world, we are the children
Hey, choo
choo Charlie
ALL FOUR
Off the Harley!
BENNY
No
more fiction
This is an eviction
COLLINS
We're already
moving
MARK
Gang way
Blockbuster
BENNY
Blockbuster fell
through
COLLINS
You have a
conscience?
BENNY
My wife...
ROGER
You
suck!
BENNY
I'm cut off from the trust
fund
MARK
What about Mimi?
BENNY
You can stay
if you pay
ROGER
What about --
BENNY
Not so
loud!
MARK, ROGER &
COLLINS
Mimi!
BENNY
Hey!
ROGER
How do
you work these?
BENNY
Don't be a jerk
please
ROGER
I'm a jerk?
BENNY
I didn't see
you paying her blue cross
ROGER
I don't make money by selling
out to destitute
BENNY
Out of my house you
squatters
ROGER
You slumlord!
BENNY
I dumped
Mimi anyways
It was a drag -- things got queer
COLLINS, MARK &
ROGER
When?
BENNY
A week ago,
more
MARK
Where is she?
BENNY
I assumed -- you
mean she isn't here?
ROGER
Alison!
BENNY
Don't you do
that!
ROGER
I just thought you might like to know
--
MAUREEN
Mark! Roger! Anyone --
help!
MARK
Maureen?
MAUREEN
It's Mimi -- I
can't get her up the
stairs
ROGER
No!
MAUREEN
She was huddled in
the park in the dark
And she was freezing
And begged to come
here
ROGER
Over here
Oh, God --
MIMI
Got a
light -- I know you -- you're shivering
JOANNE
She's been
living on the street
ROGER
We need some
heat
MIMI
I'm shivering
MARK
We can buy some
wood and something to eat
COLLINS
I'm afraid she needs more
than heat
MIMI
I heard that
MAUREEN
Collins
will get you a doctor, honey
MIMI
Don't waste your money on
Mimi, me, me
COLLINS (counting money)
Fifteen,
sixteen...
MAUREEN
There, there
MIMI
Cold --
cold -- would you light my candle?
MARK
Wait, I'll sell the
camera
COLLINS
Time to be on your way comrade
It's been
525,600 moments clad
We were nomads together in a no-man's land
Where
man's the only beast who pays rent
And if it's spent, at least he's got to
stay afloat
And he's got to have a damn good coat
Which you were like an
Angel
But it's over
Goodbye love
Goodbye love
Goodbye
love
Goodbye
Farewell Angel
MARK
I finished the
film
MAUREEN
That's great
MARK
It's called
"Today For You -- Proof Positive."
MARK & MAUREEN
God let
her live
MIMI
I should tell you
I should tell
you
ROGER
I should tell you
I should tell
you
MIMI
I should tell you
Benny wasn't
any...
ROGER
Sshh! I know
I should tell you why I left
It
wasn't cause I didn't...
MIMI
Don't go
I should tell
you
ROGER
I should tell you
MIMI
I should tell
you
MIMI & ROGER
I love you
Walking through fire without
a burn
ROGER
Clinging a shoulder
MIMI
A leap
begins
ROGER
Stinging and older
MIMI
Asleep on
pins
MIMI & ROGER
So here we go
Now
we...
ROGER
Oh no
MIMI
I
know
ROGER
Oh no
Who knows where
Who goes there
Who
knows
Here goes
(Mimi collapses)
ROGER
Who do
you think you are?
Leaving me alone with my guitar
(plays Musetta's
Waltz)
ROGER
Mimi!
(Mimi jumps
up)
MIMI
Moonstruck!
The theme from
Moonstruck
MARK
Moonstruck?
MIMI
Moooooo!
MARK
I
knew it sounded familiar
MAUREEN
She's
drenched
MARK
Her fever's breaking
MIMI
There
is no future -- there is no past
ROGER
Thank God this moment's
not the last
MIMI & ROGER
There's only us
There's only
this
Forget regret or life is yours to miss
ALL
No other
road no other way
No day but today
WOMEN
I can't
control
My destiny
I trust my soul
My only goal is just to
be
MEN
Will I lose my dignity?
Will someone care?
Will I
wake tomorrow
From this nightmare?
WOMEN
Without you
The
hand gropes
The ear hears
The pulse beats
Life goes on
But I'm
gone
'Cause I die
Without you
I die without you
I die without
you
I die without you
MEN
There's only now
There's only
here
Give in to love
Or live in fear
No other path
No other
way
No day but today
No day but today
No day but today
No day but
today
ALL
No day but today
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