Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer and playwright noted for the serious social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, and homophobia explored in his work. Typical examples of his use of these themes are found in his works, Rent and tick, tick... BOOM!. He received three posthumous Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the rock opera Rent.
Larson was born to Jewish parents, Allan and Nanette Larson, in White Plains, New York. He was exposed to the performing arts, especially music and theatre from an early age, as he played the trumpet, tuba, was involved in his school's choir, and took formal piano lessons. His early musical influences were his favorite rock musicians such as Elton John, The Beatles, The Doors, The Who, and Billy Joel, as well as the classic composers of musical theatre, especially Stephen Sondheim. Larson was also involved in acting in high school, performing in lead roles in various productions at White Plains High School.
Idina Kim Menzel ( /ɪˈdiːnə mɛnˈzɛl/; born Mentzel on May 30, 1971) is an American actress, singer and songwriter.
She rose to prominence for her performance as Maureen Johnson in the Broadway musical Rent, a role which she reprised for the 2005 film adaptation. In 2004 she won the Tony Award for originating the role of Elphaba in the hugely successful Broadway blockbuster Wicked.
Menzel was born in Queens, New York. Her mother, Helene, is a therapist, and her father, Stuart Mentzel, worked as a pajama salesman. Her family is Jewish; her grandparents immigrated from Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Her family lived in East Brunswick, Somerset and Marlboro, New Jersey from when she was in kindergarten to third grade, but she considers herself raised in Syosset, New York, with her younger sister Cara. Idina changed her last name to Menzel to better reflect the pronunciation the Mentzel family had adopted in America. When Menzel was 15 years old, her parents divorced and she began working as a wedding and bar mitzvah singer, a job which she continued throughout her time at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Drama at NYU prior to being cast in Jonathan Larson's rock musical Rent. She was friends with actor Adam Pascal before they worked together in Rent.
Karen Olivo (born August 7, 1976) is an American stage and television actress, who is known for originating the role of Vanessa in the Tony Award–winning musical In the Heights both on and off Broadway. She won her Tony Award for her performance as Anita (2009–2010) in the revival of West Side Story. She is the first and only actor to win a Tony for a performance in West Side Story.
Olivo is of Dominican, Puerto Rican, Native American, and Chinese descent. She was born in New York City and raised in Bartow, Florida. She attended the Lois Cowles Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in nearby Lakeland, Florida, and later the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music. Olivo is married to Matt Caplan, who is currently in the production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
In 2009, Olivo received her first Tony Award for her performance as Anita in the Broadway revival of West Side Story. She was also nominated for both a Drama Desk and an Outer Critic's Circle Award for her critically acclaimed performance as Anita. She earned her second Astaire Award nomination for Best Female Dancer for her performance in West Side Story, after previously winning the same award in 2008 for her performance in In the Heights. She was contracted with West Side Story at the Palace through 2010. During the May 8, 2010 matinee performance of West Side Story, Olivo broke her foot. Anita standby Natalie Cortez performed the role until the show's closure. Olivo took part in the world premiere of "By The Way, Meet Vera Stark" at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, the play "draws upon the screwball films of the 1930s to take a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood."
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
MARK
That's a lie that's a lie
I had a tea the other day
RESTAURANT MAN
You couldn't pay
MARK
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
Oy vey!
COLLINS
What brings the mogul in his own mind to the Life Cafe?
BENNY
I would like to propose a toast
To Maureen's noble try
It went well
MAUREEN
Go to hell
BENNY
Was the yuppie scum stomped
Not counting the homeless
How many tickets weren't comped
ROGER
Why did Muffy-
BENNY
Alison
ROGER
Miss the show?
BENNY
There was a death in the family
If you must know
ANGEL
Who died?
BENNY
Our Akita
BENNY, MARK, ANGEL, COLLINS
Evita
BENNY
Mimi I'm surprised
A bright and charming girl like you
Hangs out with these slackers
(Who don't adhere to deals)
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 goodbyes
COLLINS & ROGER
Dies irae dies illa
Kyrie eleison
Yitgadal v' yitkadash, 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 hookie, 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 Absolute- 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
MR. GREY
Ahhemm
MAUREEN
Hey Mister- 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
A BOY
Ugh
COLLINS
It tastes the same
MIMI
If you close your eyes
RESTAURANT MAN
And thirteen orders of fries
Is that it here?
ALL
Wine and beer!
MIMI & ANGEL
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
MR. GREY
Sisters?
MAUREEN
We're close
ANGEL, COLLINS, MAUREEN, MARK, MR. GREY
Brothers!
MARK, ANGEL, MIMI & THREE OTHERS
Bisexuals, trisexuals, homo sapiens,
Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, Pee Wee Herman
German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa
Carmina Burana
ALL
To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy
Vaclav Havel - The Sex Pistols, 8BC,
To no shame - never playing the Fame Game
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 only in bubble wrap, will perform her famous lawn
chair-handcuff dance to the sounds of iced tea being stirred
ROGER
Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability to hold an
erection on high holy days
MARK
Maureen Johnson, back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the
eleventh street lot,
Will sing native american tribal chants backwards through her vocoder,
While accompanying herself on the electric cello
Which she has never studied
BENNY
Your new boyfriend doesn't know about us?
MIMI
There's nothing to know
BENNY
Don't you think that we should discuss-
MIMI
It was three months ago
BENNY
He doesn't act like he's with you
MIMI
We're taking it slow
BENNY
Where is he now?
MIMI
He's right - hmm
BENNY
Uh huh
MIMI
Where'd he go?
MARK
Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song
That doesn't remind us of "Musetta's Waltz"
COLLINS
Angel Dumott Schunard will now model the latest fall fashions from Paris
While accompanying herself on the 10 gallon plastic pickle tub
ANGEL
And Collins will recount his exploits as an anarchist
Including the successful reprogramming of the M.I.T. virtual reality equipment
To self-destruct, as it broadcast the words:
ALL
"Actual reality -- Act Up -- Fight AIDS"
BENNY
Check!
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
MIMI
I got baggage, too
ROGER
I should tell you
BOTH
Baggage - wine
OTHERS
And beer!
MIMI
AZT break
ROGER
You?
MIMI
Me , You?
ROGER
Mimi
ROGER
Your Eyes
As We Said Our Goodbyes
Can't Get Them Out Of My Mind
And I Find I Can't Hide (From)
Your Eyes
The Ones That Took Me By Surprise
The Night You Came Into My Life
Where There's Moonlight
I See Your Eyes
How'd I Let You Slip Away
When I'm Longing So To Hold You
Now I'd Die For One More Day
'Cause There's Something I Should
Have Told You
Yes There's Something I Should Have
Told You
When I Looked Into Your Eyes
Why Does Distance Make Us Wise?
You Were The Song All Along
And Before The Song Dies
I Should Tell You I Should Tell You
I Have Always Loved You
GORDON:
LOOK -- I FIND SOME OF WHAT YOU TEACH SUSPECT
BECAUSE I’M USED TO RELYING ON INTELLECT
BUT I TRY TO OPEN UP TO WHAT I DON’T KNOW
GORDON & ROGER:
BECAUSE REASON SAYS I SHOULD HAVE DIED THREE YEARS AGO
ALL:
THERE'S ONLY US, THERE'S ONLY THIS... FORGET... REGRET...
OR LIFE IS YOURS TO MISS
NO OTHER ROAD
NO OTHER WAY
ANGEL
Who died?
BENNY
Our akita
MARK, RODGER, ANGEL, COLLINS
Evita
BENNY
They make fun -Yet I am the one
Attempting to do some good
Or do you really want a neighborhood
Where people piss on your stoop every night?
Bohemia, Bohemia
Is a fallacy in your head
This is Calcutta
Bohemia is dead
MARK
Dearly beloved, we gather here to say
our goodbyes
COLLINS & ROGER
Dies Irae - Dies Illa
Kyrie Eleison
Yitgadal V' Yitkadash (etc.)
MARK
Here she lies
No one knew her worth
The late great daughter of Mother Earth
On these nights when we celebrate the birth
In that little town of Bethlehem
We raise our glass- You bet your ass to-
La Vie Boheme
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-
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme
MR. GREY
AHHEMM
MAUREEN
Hey Mister- She's my sister
MR. GREY
So that's five miso soup,
Four seaweed salad
Three soy burger dinner,
Two tofu dog platter
And one pasta with meatless balls
A BOY
COLLINS
It tastes the same
MIMI
If you close your eyes
MR. GREY
And thirteen orders of fries
Is that it here?
Wine and beer!
MIMI & ANGEL
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
La Vie Boheme
MR. GREY
Sisters?
MAUREEN
We're close
ANGEL, COLLINS, MAUREEN, MARK & MR GREY
Brothers!
MARK, ANGEL, MIMI & 3 OTHERS
Bisexuals, trisexuals, Homo Sapiens,
Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men,
Pee Wee Herman
German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa
Carmina Burana
To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy
Vaclav Havel- The Sex Pistols, 8BC
To no shame- Never playing the fame game
COLLINS
To marijuana
To sodomy
It's between God and me
To S & M
BENNY
Waiter...Waiter...Waiter
La Vie Boheme
COLLINS
In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromtu salon will
commence immediately following dinne. And Maureen
Johnson, back from her spectacular one-night engagement
at the eleventh street lot, will sing Native American
tribal chants backwards through her vocoder, while
accompanying herself on the electric cello- Which she
has never never studied.
Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap, will perform
her famous lawn chair-handcuff dance to the sounds of
iced tea being
stirred.
ROGER
And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about
his inability to hold an erection on high holy days.
MARK
And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet,
evocative song
(Roger picks up a guiter and plays)
MARK
That doesn't remind us of 'Musetta's
Waltz'
COLLINS
Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall
fashions from Paris while accompanying herself on the
10-gallon plastic
pickle tub.
ANGEL
And Collins will recount his exploits
as an Anarchist- Including the tale of
his successful reprogramming of the
MIT virtual reality equipment to self-destruct as it
broadcasts the words:
'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!
MIMI
AZT break
ROGER
You?
MIMI
Me. You?
ROGER
How did we get here?
How the hell..pan left--close on the steeple of the
church. How did I get here, how the hell?
Christmas! Christmas eve, last year. I could a night so
frozen be so scalding hot? How can a morning
this mild be so raw? Why are entire years strewn on the
cutting room floor of memory as single frames
of one magic night forever flicker in close up on the 3-D
Imax of my mind. Thats poetic- thats
pathetic. Why did Mimi knock on Roger's door? and Collins
choose that phone booth back where Angel
set up his drums. Why did Maureen's equiptment break
down? Why am I the witness and when I capture it
ROGER
What Happened To Benny
What Happened To His Heart
And The Ideals He Once Pursued
BENNY
The Owner Of That Lot Next Door
Has A Right To Do With It As He Pleases
COLLINS
Happy Birthday, Jesus!
BENNY
The Rent
MARK
You're Wasting Your Time
ROGER
We're Broke
MARK
And You Broke Your Word - This Is Absurd
BENNY
There Is One Way You Won't Have To Pay
ROGER
I Knew It!
BENNY
Next Door, The Home Of Cyberarts, You See
And Now That The Block Is Re-Zoned
Our Dream Can Become A Reality
You'll See Boys
You'll See Boys
A State Of The Art, Digital, Virtual
Interactive Studio
I'll Forego Your Rent And On Paper
Guarantee
That You Can Stay Here For Free
If You Do Me One Small Favor
MARK
What?
BENNY
Convince Maureen To Cancel Her
Protest
MARK
Why Not Just Get And Injunction
Or Call The Cops
BENNY
I Did, And They're On Stand By
But My Investors Would Rather
I Handle This Quietly
ROGER
You Can't Quietly Wipe Out An
Entire Tent City
Then Watch 'It's A Wonderful Life'
On TV!
BENNY
You Want To Produce Films And Write
Songs?
You Need Somewhere To Do It!
It's What We Used To Dream About
Think Twice Before You Pooh-Pooh It
You'll See Boys
You'll See Boys
You'll See - The Beauty Of A Studio
That Lets Us Do Our Work And Get Paid
With Condos On The Top
Whose Rent Keeps Open Our Shop
Just Stop The Protest
And You'll Have It Made
[A HOMELESS MAN]
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Somewhere else!
Not here
[ANGEL]
You okay honey?
[COLLINS]
I'm afraid so
[ANGEL]
They get any money?
[COLLINS]
Had none to get --
But they purloined my coat --
Well you missed a sleeve! -- Thanks
[ANGEL]
Hell, it's Christmas Eve
I'm Angel
[COLLINS]
Angel..? Indeed
An angel of the first degree
Friends call me Collins -- Tom Collins
Nice tree ...
[ANGEL]
Let's get a band-aid for your knee
I'll change, there's a "Life Support" meeting at nine-
thirty
Yes -- this body provides a comfortable home
For the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
[COLLINS]
As does mine
[ANGEL]
We'll get along fine
Get you a coat, have a bite
Make a night -- I'm flush
[COLLINS]
My friends are waiting --
[ANGEL]
You're cute when you blush
The more the merri -- ho ho ho
MIMI
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.
ROGER
The world revives
MIMI
Colors renew
BOTH
But I know blue, only blue, lonely blue, within me
blue.
MIMI
Without you.
Without you, the hand gropes, the ear hears, the pulse
beats.
ROGER
Without you, the eyes gaze, the legs walk, the lungs
breathe.
ROGER
The mind churns!
MIMI
The mind churns!
ROGER
The heart yearns!
MIMI
The heart yearns!
BOTH
The tears dry, without you.
Life goes on, but I'm gone.
Cause I die, without you.
MIMI
Without you.
ROGER
Without you.
BOTH
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
JONATHAN
When I was nine,
Michael and I
Entered a talent show down at the Y
Nine A.M. went to rehearse by some stairs
Mike couldn't sing
But I said, "No one cares"
We sang "Yellow Bird" and "Let's Go Fly A Kite"
Over and over and over
Till we got it right
When we emerged from the YMCA
Three o'clock sun had made the grass hay
I thought,
Hey, what a way to spend a day
Hey, what a way to spend a day
I make a vow, right here and now
I'm gonna spend my time this way
When I was sixteen,
Michael and I
Got parts in "West Side"
At White Plains High
Three o'clock went to rehearse in the gym
Mike played "Doc", who didn't sing
Fine with him
We sang, "gotta rocket in your pocket"
and "the Jets are gonna have their day - tonight"
Over and over and over
Till we got it right
When we emerged,
Wiped out by that play
Nine o'clock, stars and moon lit the way
I thought,
Hey, what a way to spend a day
Hey, what a way to spend a day
I made a vow
I wonder now
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
With only so much time to spend
Don't wanna waste the time I'm given
"Have it all, play the game" - some recommend
I'm afraid, it just may be time to give in
I'm twenty-nine,
Michael and I
Live on the west side of SoHo, N.Y.
Nine A.M.
I write a lyric or two
Mike sings his song now on Mad Avenue
I sing, "Come to your senses
Defenses are not the way to go"
Over and over and over
Till I got it right
When I emerge from B Minor or A
Five o'clock, diner calls, "I'm on my way"
I think,
Hey, what a way to spend a day
Hey, what a way to spend a day
I make a vow - right here and now
I'm gonna spend my time this way
MARK
"Hi. Mark Cohen for Buzzline... Back to you Alexi.
Coming up, vampire welfare queens who are compulsive
bowlers."
Oh God, what am I doing?
Don't breathe too deep
Don't think all day
Dive into work
Drive the other way
That drip of hurt
That pint of shame
Goes away
Just play the game
You're living in America
At the end of the millenium
You're living in America
Leave your conscience at the tone
And when you're living in America
At the end of the millenium
You're what you own
ROGER
The filmmaker cannot see
MARK
And the songwriter cannot hear
ROGER
Yet I see Mimi everywhere
MARK
Angel's voice is in my ear
ROGER
Just tighten those shoulders
MARK
Just clench your jaw til you frown
ROGER
Just don't let go
BOTH
Or you may drown
You're living in America
At the end of the millenium
You're living in America
Where it's like the twilight zone
And when you're living in America
At the end of the millenium
You're what you own
So I own not a notion
I escaoe an ape content
I don't own emotion- I rent
MARK
What was it about that night
ROGER
What was it about that night
BOTH
Connection- In an isolatiing age
MARK
For once the shadows gave way to light
ROGER
For once the shadows gave way to light
BOTH
For once I didn't disengage
[following two sung almost at the same time]
MARK
Angel- I hear you- I hear it
I see it- I see it my film!
Roger
Mimi-I see you- I hear it-
I hear it-
I hear it my song
[following two sung almost at same time]
MARK (On the phone)
Alexi-Mark
Call me a hypocrite
I need to finish my
Own film Your Eyes
I quit!
Roger
One song glory
Mimi your eyes
BOTH
Dying in America
At the end of the millenium
We're dying in America
To come into our own
And when you're dying in America
At the end of the millenium
You're not alone
I'm not alone
COLLINS
Gentlemen, Our Benefactor On This
Christmas Day
Whose Charity Is Only Matched By
Talent, I Believe
A New 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, Dahling-Be A Dear - 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
Guarentee,
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 and 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
Then Back To The Street Where I Met
My Sweet
Where He Was Moaning And Groaning On
The Cold Concrete
The Nurse Took Him Home For Some
Mercurochrome
And I Dressed His Wounds And Got Him
Back On His Feet
Sing It
Today For You - Tomorrow For Me
Today For You - Tomorrow For Me
Today For You - Tomorrow For Me
SUSAN:
Are you saying we can't talk?
JONATHAN:
Are you saying we are not talking?
SUSAN:
What are you saying?
JONATHAN:
What are you saying?
I'm saying:
I feel bad, that you feel bad
About me feeling bad, about you feeling bad
About what I said, about what you said
About me not being able to share a feeling
SUSAN:
If I thought that what you thought
Was that I hadn't thought about sharing my thoughts
Then my reaction to your reaction
To my reaction
Would have been more revealing
JONATHAN:
I was afraid that you'd be afraid
If I told you that I was afraid of intimacy
If you don't have a problem with my problem
Maybe the problem is simply co-dependency
SUSAN:
Yes I know that now you know
That I didn't know that you didn't know
That when I said "No"
I meant "Yes, I know"
And that now I know that you knew
That you knew you adored me
JONATHAN:
I was wrong to
SUSAN:
Say you were wrong to
JONATHAN:
Say I was wrong about
SUSAN:
You being wrong
JONATHAN:
When you rang to say that
SUSAN:
The ring was the wrong thing to bring
JONATHAN:
If I meant what I said
When I said "rings bore me"
JONATHAN AND SUSAN:
I'm not mad that you got mad that I got mad
When you said I should go drop dead
JONATHAN:
If I were you and I'd done what I'd done
I'd do what you did when I gave you the ring
Having said what I said
JONATHAN:
I feel bad, that you feel bad
About me feeling bad, about you feeling bad
About what I said, about what you said
About me not being able to share a feeling
I thought you thought I reacted shallowly
When I reacted to you
I'm not mad
You got mad
Go drop dead
If I were you and I'd done what I'd done
I'd do what you did when I gave you the ring
Having said what I said
SUSAN:
I feel badly about you
Feeling badly about me
Feel badly about you
If I thought that what you thought
Was that I hadn't thought about sharing my thoughts
Then my reaction to your reaction
To my reaction
Would have been more revealing
I'm not mad that you got mad that I got mad
When you said I should go drop dead
If I were you
But I'm not you
Said what I said
JONATHAN:
But now it's out in the open
SUSAN:
Now it's off our chest
JONATHAN AND SUSAN:
Now it's four am
And we have therapy tomorrow
It's too late to screw
JOANNE
The Samples Wont Delay
But The Cable -
MARK
There's Another Way
Say Something - Anything
JOANNE
Test - On, Two Three ...
MARK
Anything But That
JOANNE
This Is Weird
MARK
It's Weird
JOANNE
Very Weird
MARK
Fuckin' Weird
JOANNE
I'm So Mad
That I Don't Know What To Do
Fighting With Microphones
Freezing Down To My Bones
And To Top It All Off
I'm With You
MARK
Feel Like Going Insane?
Got A Fire In Your Brain?
And Your Thinking Of Drinking
Gasoline?
JOANNE
As A Matter Of Fact --
MARK
Honey, I Know This Act
It's Called The 'Tango Maureen'
The Tango Maureen
It's A Dark, Dizzy
Merry-Go-Round
As She Keeps You Dangling
JOANNE
You're Wrong
MARK
Your Heart She Is Mangling
JOANNE
It's Different With Me
MARK
And You Toss And You Turn
'Cause Her Cold Eyes Can Burn
Yet You Yearn And You Churn And Rebound
JOANNE
I Think I Know What You Mean
BOTH
The Tango Maureen
MARK
Has She Ever
Pouted Her Lips
And Called You 'Pookie'
JOANNE
Never
MARK
Have You Ever Doubted A Kiss Or Two?
JOANNE
This Is Spooky
Did You Swoon
When She Walked Through The Door?
MARK
Every Time - So Be Cautious
JOANNE
Did She Moon Over Other Boys--?
MARK
More Than Moon--
JOANNE
I'm Getting Nauseous
MARK
Where'd you learn to tango?
JOANNE
With the French Ambassadors Daughter in her dorm room
at Miss Porters, and you?
MARK
With Nanette Hemmelfarb, the rabbis daughter at the
Scarsdale Jewish Community Centre
MARK
It's hard to do this backwards
JOANNE
You should try it in heels!
She Cheated
MARK
She Cheated
JOANNE
Maureen Cheated
MARK
Fuckin' Cheated
JOANNE
I'm Defeated
I Should Give Up Right Now
MARK
Gotta Look On The Bright Side
With All Of Your Might
JOANNE
I'd Fall For Her Still Anyhow
BOTH
When Your Dancing Her Dance
You Don't Stand A Chance
Her Grip Of Romance
Makes You Fall
MARK
So You Think, 'Might As Well'
JOANNE
Dance A Tango To Hell
BOTH
'At Least I'll Have Tangoed At All'
The Tango Maureen
Gotta Dance Til Your Diva Is Through
You Pretend To Believe Her
Cause In The End - You Can't Leave Her
But The End It Will Come
Still You Have To Play Dumb
Til You're Glum And You Bum
And Turn Blue
MARK
Why Do We Love When She's Mean?
JOANNE
And She Can Be So Obscene
JOANNE
My Maureen
BOTH
maureen:
every single day,
i walk down the street
i hear people say 'baby so sweet'
ever since puberty
everybody stares at me
boys girls i can't help it baby
so be kind and don't lose your mind
just remember that i'm your baby
take me for what i am
who i was ment to be
and if you give a damn
take me baby
or leave me
take me or leave me
Maureen:
a tiger in a cage
can never see the sun
this diva needs her stage baby
lets have fun
you are the one i choose
folks will kill to fill your shoes
you love the lime light to now baby
so be mine but don't waste my time
cryin' 'honey bear are you still my, my, my baby?'
take me for what i am
who i was ment to be
and if you give a damn
take me baby or leave me
no way, can i be what i'm not
but hey, don't you want your girl hot?
oh, don't fight, don't loose your head
'cause every night who's in your bed?
who?
who's in your bed?
spoken:kiss pookie
Joanne:
it won't work
i look before i leap
i love margins and discipline
i make list in my sleep baby
whats my sin?
never quit
i follow through
i hate mess but i love you
what do with my improptu baby?
so be wise 'cause this girl satisfies
you got a prize but don't compomise
your one lucky baby
joanne: take me for what i am
maureen: a control freak
joanne: who i was ment to be
maureen: a snob yet over attentive
joanne: and if you give a damn
maureen: a loveable droll geek
joanne: take me baby or leave me
maureen: a anal retentave
both: thats it
joanne: the straw that breaks my back
both: i quit
joanne: unless you take it back
maureen: women what is it about them?
both: can't live with them or without them
chorus:
both: take me for what i am
joanne: who i was ment to be
maureen: who i was ment to be
and if you give a damn
joanne: and if you give a damn then
take me baby, or leave me
maureen:take me baby, take me or la-la-la-la-la-leave
both: take me baby or leave me
DINER PATRONS AND WORKERS:
Straight back and to the left
Pick up those fucking eggs
B...ring! B...ring!
We're out of milk
Who took my rye bread?
Four waters to table seven
I'm sorry, we don't deliver on Sunday
I need table three for two, yesterday
Is there a list?
Harrington? Harrington?
Kaplan, K-a-p-l-a-n for seven
JONATHAN
Order
DINER PATRONS AND WORKERS:
No, I'm sorry, those people were here first
We don't have tables for seven
Are we in smoking?
JONATHAN
Tension
I'll have the salad Nicoise and some honey bread
JONATHAN
Balance
WOMAN
I said, I wanted an omelet with no yolks
That's why you're just a waiter
JONATHAN:
Brunch
Sunday
In the blue, silver chromium diner
On the green, purple, yellow, red stools
Sit the fools
Who should eat at home
Instead, they pay on
Sunday
JONATHAN:
For a cool orange juice or a bagel
On the soft, green cylindrical stools
Sit the fools
Drinking cinnamon coffee
Or decaffeinated tea
Forever
In the blue, silver chromium diner
JONATHAN:
Drips the green, orange, violet drool
From the fools
JONATHAN:
Who'd pay less at home
Drinking coffee
Light
And dark
MICHAEL:
And cholesterol
And bums
Bums, bums, bums, bums,
Bums, bums, bums, bums,
Bums,
MAN and WOMAN
People screaming for their toast
In a small, SoHo cafe
JONATHAN:
On an island in
JONATHAN, MICHAEL AND SUSAN:
Two Rivers
On an ordinary
Sunday
Sunday
Sunday
Sunday!
MICHAEL:
JONATHAN:
She can be white
She can be brown
She's always easy
Goin' down, goin' down
She don't care - What I look like
Or how I dress
She never says, "no"
Always says, "yes"
Oh, oh, oh
Sugar, she's refined
For a small price
She blows my mind
Sugar, she's got the power
Soothes my soul for half an hour
Half an hour, half an hour, half an hour
KARESSA
Twinkies, oh my God, I love them!
She's my honey
She's my tart
I'm her cream puff
She's my sweetheart
JONATHAN:
Knocks me out
And strips me bare
Sugar, sugar, sugar
I won't care
COUNTER GUY:
Late at night
COUNTER GUY and KARESSA:
When I'm sad and lonely
One thing only
Cures by blues
JONATHAN AND COUNTER GUY:
Stressed out
KARESSA:
Burned out
ALL:
Hangin' by a string
Sugar, sugar, sugar
I won't feel a thing
Sugar so sweet
JONATHAN:
Sugar, sugar, sugar
You got me
Kissing your feet
Kissing your feet
Pretty baby
JONATHAN
She don't care
What I look like
JONATHAN
Or how I dress
KARESSA AND COUNTER GUY:
She don't care
No, no, no, no, no, no
JONATHAN:
The only thing I know
Is that she makes
My life such a mess
KARESSA and COUNTER GUY:
Oh, yes
JONATHAN:
Sugar, oh yeah
KARESSA and COUNTER GUY:
Sugar, sugar, oh yeah
JONATHAN:
Sugar, oh yeah, yeah, yeah
KARESSA and COUNTER GUY:
Sugar, sugar
Sugar, oh yeah
Sugar, oh yeah
S-U-G-A-R
JONATHAN:
It's not you, she says
It's just that life's so hard
We all get through, I say
Hang on tight
I'll be your bodyguard
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Oh, oh, I just wanna see her smile
It's such a drag, she says
When the world's so mean
It's just a red flag, I say
Gotta look for the green
Oh, oh, oh
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Oh, oh, I just wanna see her smile
Cynical town can be tough on an angel
Clip her wings baby, one, two, three
I'm her clown cause I laugh at
Angels richer than kings
Oh, baby, don't you see?
Baby, don't you agree?
Wish I knew why, she says
But on a sunny day, I find the rain
Let's give it a try, I say
We can dance all through the pain
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Oh, oh
Oh,oh
Oh,oh
Ooooh, oh, oh
I just wanna see her smile
I just wanna see her smile
I just wanna see her smile
I just wanna see her
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
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
JOANNE
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes!
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Journeys to land.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
How do you measure the life
Of a woman or a man?
COLLINS
In truths that she learned,
Or in times that he cried.
In bridges he burned,
Or the way that she died.
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!
Seasons of love!
JOANNE (while ALL sing)
Oh you got to got to
Remember the love!
You know that love is a gift from up above
Share love, give love spread love
Measure measure your life in love
Seasons of love. Seasons of love
JOANNE (While ALL sing)
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 That
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
Let's 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
Oh--Oh
Oh--
ANGEL
You Teach?
COLLINS
Ya - I Teach Computer Age Philosophy
while My Students Would Rather Watch TV
ANGEL
America
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!
Let's Open Up A Restaurant In Santa Fe
Our Labors Would Reap Financial Gain
Gain, Gain, Gain
COLLINS
We'll Open Up A Restaurant In Santa Fe
And Save From Devastation Our Brains
HOMELESS
Save Our Brains
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
Forget This Cold Bohemian Hell
Oh--
Oh--
COLLINS
Do You Know The Way To Santa Fe?
You Know, Tumbleweeds...Prairie Dogs...
All:
MARK
How Do You Document Real Life
When Real Life's Getting More
Like Fiction Each Day
Headlines - Bread-Lines
Blow My Mind
And Now This Deadline
"Eviction - Or Pay"
Rent
ROGER
How Do You Write A Song
When The Chords Sound Wrong
Though They Once Sounded Right And Rare
When The Notes Are Sour
Where Is The Power You Once Had To Ignite the Air
MARK
And We're Hungry And Frozen
ROGER
Some Life That We've Chosen
TOGETHER
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
Last Year's Rent
MARK
We Light Candles
ROGER
How Do You Start A Fire
When There's Nothing To Burn
And It Feels Like Something's Stuck In
Your Flue
MARK
How Can You Generate Heat
When You Can't Feel Your Feet
BOTH
And They're Turning Blue!
MARK
You Light Up A Mean Blaze
ROGER
With Posters-
MARK
And Screenplays
BOTH
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
Last Year's Rent
JOANNE
(On phone)
Don't Screen, Maureen
It's Me - Joanne
Your Substitute Production Manager
Hey Hey Hey! (Did You Eat)
Don't Change The Subject Maureen
But Darling - You Haven't Eatin All Day
You Won't Throw Up
You Won't Throw Up
The Digital Delay--
-Didn't Blow Up (Exactly)
There May Have Been One Teeny Tiny Spark
You're Not Calling Mark
COLLINS
How Do You Stay On Your Feet
When On Every Street
It's 'Trick Or Treat'
(And Tonight It's 'Trick')
'Welcome Back To Town'
I Should Lie Down
Everything's Brown
And Uh - Oh
I Feel Sick
MARK
Where Is He?
COLLINS
Getting Dizzy
BOTH
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
Last Year's Rent
BENNY
(On cellular phone)
Allison Baby - You Sound Sad
I Don't Believe Those Two
After Everything I've Done
Ever Since Our Wedding
I'm Dirt - They'll See
I Can Help Them All Out In The Long Run
Forces Are Gathering
Forces Are Gathering
Can't Turn Away
Forces Are Gathering
COLLINS
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhhh- I Can't Think
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhh- I Need A Drink
MARK
The Music Ignites The Night With
Passionate Fire
JOANNE
Maureen - I'm Not A Theatre Person
ROGER
The Narration Crackles And Pops With
Incendiary Wit
JOANNE
Could Never Be A Theatre Person
MARK
Zoom In As They Burn The Past To The
Ground
JOANNE
Hello?
MARK; ROGER
And Feel The Heat Of The Future's
Glow
JOANNE
Hello?
MARK
(On phone)
Hello? Maureen?
-Your Equipment Wont Work?
Okay, All Right, I'll Go!
MARK; HALF OF THE COMPANY
How Do You Leave The Past Behind
When It Keeps Finding Ways To Get To
Your Heart
It Reaches Way Down Deep And Tears
You Inside Out
Til You're Torn Apart
Rent
ROGER; OTHER HALF OF COMPANY
How Can You Connect In An Age
Where Strangers, Landlords, Lovers
Your Own Blood Cells Betray
What Binds The Fabric Together
When The Raging, Shifting Winds Of Change
Keep Ripping Away
BENNY
Draw A Line In The Sand
And Then Make A Stand
ROGER
Use Your Camera To Spar
MARK
Use Your Guitar
When They Act Tough - You Call Their
Bluff
MARK; ROGER
We're Not Gonna Pay
MARK; ROGER W/ HALF THE COMPANY
We're Not Gonna Pay
MARK; ROGER W/ OTHER HALF OF
COMPANY
We're Not Gonna Pay
Last Year's Rent
This Year's Rent
Next Year's Rent
Rent Rent Rent Rent Rent
We're Not Gonna Pay Rent
ROGER; MARK
MICHAEL:
Sunlight
Through the window
Across from your bed
Beauty is still
Can you see it?
What more can you want?
Is this real life?
Is this real life?
Heartbeats
Of your children
Asleep in the next room
Trust so still
Can you hear it?
What more can you want?
Is this real life?
Is this real life?
MICHAEL AND JONATHAN:
Why do we seek out ecstasy
In all the wrong places?
Why is it hard to see
That heaven can have simpler faces?
MICHAEL:
Warm breath
Of an angel
MICHAEL AND SUSAN:
Awake next to you
Love's so still
Can you feel it?
What more do you want?
MICHAEL, JONATHAN AND SUSAN:
Is this real life?
Real life
Is this real life?
Is this real...
Is this real life?
Is this real life?
Real life
Is this real life?
Is this real...
Is this real...
Is this...
MICHAEL
Why do we play with fire?
Why do we run our finger through the flame?
Why do we leave our hand on the stove,
Although we know, we're in for some pain?
Oh, why do we refuse to hang a light,
When the streets are dangerous?
Why does it take an accident,
Before the truth gets through to us?
Cages or wings,
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds
Fear or love, baby
Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder than words
Why should we try to be our best
When we can just get by and still gain?
Why do we nod our heads
MICHAEL and JONATHAN
Although we know
MICHAEL
The boss is wrong as rain?
JONATHAN
Why should we blaze a trail
When the well worn path Seems safe and
JONATHAN and SUSAN
So inviting?
SUSAN
How, as we travel, can we
JONATHAN and SUSAN
See the dismay
And keep from fighting?
JONATHAN MICHAEL AND SUSAN
Cages or wings, Cages or wings,
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds Ah:
Fear or love, baby
Don't say the answer
JONATHAN MICHAEL AND SUSAN
Actions speak louder than Louder than, louder than:
Words
What does it take
To wake up a generation?
How can you make someone
Take off and fly?
JONATHAN
If we don't wake up
And shake up the nation
We'll eat the dust
Of the world wondering why
SUSAN
Why do we stay with lovers
SUSAN and JONATHAN
Who we know, down deep
SUSAN
Just aren't right?
JONATHAN
Why would we rather
Put ourselves through hell
Than sleep alone at night?
JONATHAN
Why do we follow leaders who never lead?
MICHAEL
Why does it take catastrophe to start a revolution
MICHAEL and SUSAN
If we're so free?
Tell me why
JONATHAN
Someone tell me why
So many people bleed
JONATHAN MICHAEL AND SUSAN
Cages or wings, Cages or wings,
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds Ah:
Fear or love, baby
Don't say the answer
JONATHAN MICHAEL AND SUSAN
Actions speak louder than Louder than, Louder than,
Louder than, Louder than
Cages or wings,
Which do you prefer?
JONATHAN MICHAEL AND SUSAN
Ask the birds Ah:
Fear or love, baby
Don't say the answer
JONATHAN MICHAEL AND SUSAN
Actions speak louder Louder than, Louder than
They speak louder Louder than, Louder than
Maureen
Last night, I had a dream
I found myself in a desert called Cyberland
It was hot
My canteen had sprung a leak and I was thirsty
Out of the obice walked a cow, Elsey
I asked if she had anything to drink she said
”I am forbidden to produce milk,
In Cyberland we only drink Diet Coke (Diet coke…Diet
coke…Diet coke)
She said
“Only thing to do is just over the moon”
They've closed everything real down
Like barns and troths and...
Performance Spaces
And replaced it all with lies and rules and
Virtual Life... But there is a way out
Back Ups
Leap of faith, leap of faith, leap of faith, leap of
faith
[continues in background]
Maureen
OOOOOOO
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
[back ups stop]
I gotta get outta here
It's like i'm being tied to the hood of
a yellow rental truck being packed in with fertilizer
and fuel oil pushed over a cliff by a suicidal mickey
mouse
I gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta
gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta
find a way...
to jump over the moon
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
Then a little bulldog entered
His name we have learned was Benny
And although he once had principles he abounded them to
live as a lapdog to a wealthy daughter of the
revolution
1..2..3
That's bull he said
Ever since the cat took off with the fiddle that cows
been jumpy
And the dish and the spoon were evicted from the table
and eloped
She had trouble with the milk and that moon ever since
maybe it was a female thing
But who'd wanna leave cyberland anyways!
Walls ain't so bad
The dish and the spoon for instance their down on their
luck they come knockin' on my doghouse door
and i said "Not in my backward utensils, go back to
china!" (bideebong)
The only way out is up, Elsey whispered to me
A leap of faith
Still Thirsty?? Parched
Have some milk
As I lowered myself beneath her her swollen utter and
sucked the sweetest milk
I have ever tasted!
Climb on board she said and as a harvest moon rose over
Cyberland we reared back we sprang into a
gallop leaping out of orbit i awoke singing
OOOOOO
Only thing to do
Only think to do is jump
Only thing to do is jump Over the moon
Only thing to do is jump Over the moon
Over the moon
Over the ...
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 Flirt
With A Stranger'
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
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
Before It's New Years Day
Take Me Out Tonight (Meow)
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
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
Where 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
One Song
Glory
One song
Before I go
Glory
One song to leave behind
Find one song
One last refrain
Glory
From the pretty boy front man
Who wasted opportunity
One song
He had the world at his feet
Glory
In the eyes of a young girl
A young girl
Find glory
Beyond the cheap colored lights
One song
Before the sun sets
Glory - on another empty life
Time flies - time dies
Glory - One Blaze Of Glory
One Blaze Of Glory - Glory
Find
Glory
in a song that rings true
truth like a blazing fire
an eternal flame
Find
One Song
A Song About Love
Glory
From The Soul Of A Young Man
A Young Man
Find
The One Song
Before The Virus Takes Hold
Glory
Like A Sunset
One Song
To Redeem This Empty Life
Time Flies
And Then - No Need To Endure Anymore
MICHAEL:
No more
Walking up six flights of stairs
Or throwing down the key
Because there is no buzzer.
No more
Walking thirteen blocks
With thirty pounds of laundry
In the fuckin' dead of winter
No more faulty wiring
No more painted floors
No more spitting out my Ultra Brite
On top of dirty dishes
In the one and only sink
Hello, to my walk in closets
Tidy as Park Avenue
Hello, my butcher block table
I could get used - I could get used
I could get used to you
No more
Climbing over sleeping people
Before you get out the door of your own building
MICHAEL AND JONATHAN:
No more
MICHAEL:
Noxious fumes from gas heaters that are illegal
JONATHAN:
Or will blow up while you are sleeping
MICHAEL AND JONATHAN:
Ohhhh!
MICHAEL:
No more
JONATHAN:
Leaky ceilings
MICHAEL:
No more
JONATHAN:
Holes in the floor
MICHAEL AND JUNATHAN:
No more
JONATHAN:
Taking a shower in the kitchen
While your roommate's eating breakfast
MICHAEL AND JONATHAN:
And you are getting water on his corn flakes
Hello, to shiny new parquet wood floors
As waxed as a wealthy girl's legs
Hello, dear Mister Dishwasher
MICHAEL:
I could get used
JONATHAN:
I could get used
MICHAEL:
I could get used to you
JONATHAN:
I could get used to you
MICHAEL AND JONATHAN:
I could get used to you
JONATHAN:
No more, exotic
MICHAEL:
No more, neurotic
MICHAEL AND JONATHAN:
No more anything
But pleasantly robotic
MICHAEL:
We are moving on up
JONATHAN:
We are moving on up
MICHAEL:
To the East Side
JONATHAN:
To the East Side
MICHAEL AND JONATHAN:
To a deluxe apartment
In the sky
JONATHAN:
What's that?
MICHAEL:
Oh, come on
Hold on, breathe
JONATHAN:
Uhhhh!
MICHAEL:
Easy
JONATHAN:
What are you doing?
MICHAEL:
It's him
Ah, hold the phone
MICHAEL AND JONATHAN:
Hello, to dear Mister Doorman
Who looks like Captain Kangaroo
Hello dear fellow, and how do you do?
JONATHAN:
I could get used
MICHAEL:
I could get used
JOHATHAN:
Even seduced
MICHAEL:
Even seduced
MICHAEL AND JONATHAN:
I could get used to you
Ooow!
MAUREEN
Life a breath of midnight air
Like a lighthouse
Like a prayer
ANGEL
Like a flicker and the flare the sky reveals
ANGEL & MAUREEN
Like a walk along the shore
That you've walked a thousand times before
Like the oceans roar
Love heals
JOANNE
There are those who shield their hearts
Those who quit before they start
ROGER
Who've frozen up the part of them that feels
JOANNE & ROGER
In the dark they've lost their sight
Like a ship without a star in the night
But hold on tight
Love heals
JOANNE
When you feel like you can't go on
Love heals
JOANNE
Hold on to love
It'll keep you strong
Love heals
JOANNE
When you feel like you can't go on
Love heals
ROGER
Hold on to love
And it will bring you home
MAUREEN & BENNY
Love heals when pain's too much to bear
When you reach out your hand
And only the wind is there
MIMI & MARK
When life's unfair
When things like us are not to be
MAUREEN & BENNY
Love heals when you feel so small
Like a grain of sand
Like nothing at all
JOANNE & COLLINS
When you look out at sea
That's where love will be
That's where you'll find me
You'll fine me
JOANNE
So if you fear the storm ahead
MAUREEN
As you lie awake in bed
MAUREEN & JOANNE
And there's no one, no one to stroke you head
And your mind reels, your mind
Your mind reels.
MIMI
If you face is salty wet
And you're drowning in regret
Just
Don't forget
Don't forget
Don't forget
Don't forget
Don't forget
It's all right
Love heals
Love heals
Love heals
Love heals
ROGER
What'd You Forget?
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.
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
On 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
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 -- Um --
MIMI
What's That?
ROGER
Candy Bar Wrapper
MIMI
We Could Light The Candle
What'd You Do With My Candle?
ROGER
That Was My Last Match
MIMI
Our Eyes Will 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
JONATHAN:
Break of day, the dawn is here
Johnny's up and pacing
Compromise, or persevere?
His mind is racing
Johnny has no guide - Johnny wants to hide
Can he make a mark, if he gives up his spark?
Johnny can't decide
SUSAN:
Susan longs to live by the sea,
She's through with competition
Susan wants a family
Johnny's got a tough decision
Johnny has no guide
JONATHAN AND SUSAN:
Johnny wants to hide
Can he settle down - and still not drown?
JONATHAN:
Drown
JONATHAN AND SUSAN:
Johnny can't decide
MICHAEL:
Michael's gonna have it all
His luck will never end
Johnny's backed against the wall
Can he bend his dreams just like his friend?
JONATHAN SUSAN MICHAEL:
Johnny sees that
Susan's right Susan's right -
Ambition eats right Ambition eats right Johnny sees
right
Through you Through you Through you
Michael doesn't see
Michael doesn't see I Johnny Why Johnny
Hold on tight Hold on tight Holds so tight
To the things that To the things that
Johnny feels are true Johnny feels are true Johnny
feels are true
SUSAN AND MICHAEL
Johnny has no guide
Johnny has no guide
Johnny has no guide
Johnny has no guide
How can you soar
If you're nailed to the
Floor?
Johnny can't decide
JONATHAN:
[Speaking]
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at
the piano and write a song that people will listen to
and remember, and do the same thing every morning for
the rest of my life.
JONATHAN SUSAN AND MICHAEL
Johnny has no guide
Johnny has no guide
Johnny wants to hide
Johnny wants to hide
How do you know when it's time to let go?
Johnny can't decide
(Johnny can't decide)
Johnny can't decide
(Johnny can't decide)
Johnny can't decide
(Johnny can't decide)
Decide, decide, decide, decide
JONATHAN:
ANGEL
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 and 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,
One 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
And I'll Cover You
With A Thousand
Sweet Kisses
I'll Cover You
When You're Worn
Out And Tired
When Your Heart
Has Expired
ANGEL
If You're Cold
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
BOTH
Oh Lover I'll Cover 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 I Blew The Candle Out
Just To Get Back In
ROGER
I'd Forgotten How to Smile
Until Your Candle Burned My Skin
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
BOTH
Who Knows Where
Who Goes There
Who Knows
Here Goes
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
Here Goes - Here Goes
Here Goes - Here Goes
MIMI
How long til next year?
ROGER
Three and half minutes...
MIMI
I'm Giving Up My Vices
I'm Going Back - Back To School
Eviction Or Not
This Week's Been So Hot
That Long As I've Got You
I Know I'll Be Cool
I Couldn't Crack The Love Code, Dear
'Til You Made The Lock On My Heart
Explode
It's Gonna Be A Happy New Year
A Happy New Year
MARK
Coast Is Clear
You're Supposed To Be Working
That's For Midnight
Where Are They?
There Isn't Much Time
MIMI
Maybe They're Dressing
I Mean What Does One Wear That's
Apropos
For A Party - That's Also A Crime
MAUREEN
Chips, Anyone?
MARK
You Can Take The Girl Out Of Hicksville
But You Can't Take The Hickville Out
Of The Girl
MAUREEN
My Riot Got You On TV
I Deserve A Royalty
MIMI
Be Good You Two
Or No God Awful Champagne
MAUREEN
Don't Mind If I Do
No Luck?
ROGER
Bolted Plywood, Padlocked With A
Chain
A Total Dead End
MAUREEN
Just Like My Ex-Girlfriend
(on cellular phone)
Honey...?
I Know You're There...
Please Pick Up The Phone
Are You Okay?
It's Not Funny
It's Not Fair
How Can I Atone?
Are You Okay?
I Lose Control
But I Can Learn To Behave
Give Me One More Chance
Let Me Be Your Slave
I'll Kiss Your Doc Martens
Let Me Kiss Your Doc Martens
Your Every Wish I Will Obey
(Joanne enters)
JOANNE
That Might Be Okay
Down Girl
Heel...Stay
I Did A Bit Of Research
With My Friends At Legal Aid
Technically, You're Squatters
There's Hope
But Just In Case
MARK & JOANNE
Rope!
MARK
We Can Hoist A Line--
JOANNE
To The Fire Escape--
MARK
And Tie Off At
MARK & JOANNE
That Bench!
MAUREEN
I Can't Take Them As Chums
JOANNE
Start Hoisting...Wench
ROGER
I Think I Should Be Laughing
Yet I Forget
Forget How To Begin
I'm Feeling Something Inside
And Yet I Still Can't DecideBIf I Should Hide
Or Make A Wide Open Grin
Last Week I Wanted Just To Disappear
My Life Was Dust
But Now It Just May Be A Happy New Year
A Happy New Year
(Collins enters with Angel)
COLLINS
Bond - James Bond
ANGEL
And Pussy Galore - In Person
MIMI
Pussy - You Came Prepared
ANGEL
I Was A Boy Scout Once
And A Brownie
'Til Some Little Brat Got Scared
COLLINS
Aha! Moneypenny - My Martini!
MIMI
Will Bad Champagne Do?
ROGER
That's Shaken - Not Stirred
COLLINS
Pussy - The Bolts
ANGEL
Just Say The Word!
MIMI
Two Minutes Left To Execute Our Plan
COLLINS
Where's Everyone Else?
ROGER
Playing Spiderman
MARK
Ironic Close Up: Tight
On The Phone Machine's Red Light
Once The Boho Boys Are Gone
JONATHAN:
Deep dark velvet
Hugs your silhouette
Black silk stockings,
You're my Juliet
Soft blond hair baby,
Baby blue eyes
Cool me down
Before I jump into your thighs
The green green dress,
Twenty buttons and a strap
The green green dress,
What a pleasure to unwrap
Green dress,
Oh what it can do
What the green green dress
Does to me on you
Me on you
SUSAN:
Let's find a chair
Where we can sit and talk
Or get some fresh air,
Maybe we could take a walk
Tell me what you're thinkin',
Talk about your day
Tell me what to do,
I'll do anything you say
JONATHAN AND SUSAN:
The green green dress,
Twenty buttons and a strap
The green green dress,
JONATHAN
What a pleasure to unwrap
BOTH
Green dress,
Oh what it can do
What the green green dress
JONATHAN
Does to me on you
Me on you
SUSAN:
Can I hear you laugh, babe?
Can you make me smile?
I'll forget what's on my mind
For a while
JONATHAN:
Can I tie you up love?
If you tell me yes
I'll unbutton every button
Down your green green dress - ow!
JONATHAN AND SUSAN:
The green green dress,
Twenty buttons and a strap
The green green dress,
What a pleasure to unwrap
Green dress,
Oh what it can do
What the green green dress
JONATHAN
Does to me on you
Me on you
JONATHAN SUSAN
Me on the green green dress Green green dress
Me on the green green dress Green green dress
Me on you
JONATHAN:
Green green dress
SUSAN:
Green green dress
JONATHAN:
Green green dress
SUSAN:
The green green dress
JONATHAN AND SUSAN:
Mimi:
It's true you sold your guitar and bought a car?
Roger:
It's true - I'm leaving now for Santa Fe, It's true
you're with this yuppie scum?
Benny:
You said you'd never speak to him again
Mimi:
Not now
Maureen:
Who said you that you have any say in who she says
things to at all?
Roger:
Yeah!
Joanne:
Who said that you should stick your nose in other
people's...
Maureen:
Who said I was talking to you?
Joanne:
we used to have this fight each night
Mark:
Calm down
Joanne:
She'd never admit I existed
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
Joanne:
She's in denial
Mimi:
He's in denial
Joanne:
Didn't give an inch when i gave a mile
Mark:
Come on
Mimi:
I gave a mile
Roger:
Gave a mile to who?
Mark & Benny:
Come on guys chill!
Mimi & Joanne:
I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had
someone to live for-unafraid to say i love you
Roger:
All your words are nice Mimi but love's not a three way
street you'll never share real love until you love your
self-I
should know
Collins:
You all said you'd be cool today so please for my
sake...
I can't believe he's gone
I can't believe your going
I can't believe this family must die
Angel helped us believe in love I can't believe you
disagree
All:
I can't believe this is good bye
( Maureen and Joanne reconcile and go home. Collins
returns to the funeral home. Mimi and Benny leave
together. Roger and
Mark are left alone.)
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 when you stop escaping your pain
at least now if you try Angel's death won't be in vain
Roger:
His death is in vain
Mark:
Are you insane? 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:
Who are you to tell me what I know. What to do
Mark:
A friend
Roger:
But who, Mark, are you? "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
Mark:
From what?
Roger:
From facing your failure, facing your loneliness facing
the fact you live a lie
yes, you live a lie tell you why
you're always preaching not to be numb when that's how
you thrive
you pretend to create and observe
when you really detach from feeling alive
Mark:
Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive
Roger:
Poor baby
Mark:
Mimi still loves you
Are you really jealous or afraid that Mimi's weak
Roger:
Mimi did look pale
Mark:
Mimi's gotten thin
Mimi's running out of time
And you're running out the door--
Roger: No more! I've gotta go.
Mark:
Hey! For someone who's always been let down who's
heading out of town?
Roger:
For someone who longs for a community of his own, who's
with his camera, all alone?
I'll call. I hate the fall.
(Mimi enters)
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
Roger: Glory
Mimi:
goodbye love
Roger:
One blaze of
Mimi:
goodbye love
Roger:
glory
Mimi:
goodbye love goodbye
Roger: I have to find
(Roger leaves Benny enters)
Mimi:
please don't touch me understand I'm scared I need to
go away
Mark:
I know a place, a clinic
Benny:
A rehab?
Mimi:
Maybe could you?
Benny:
I'll pay
Mimi:
goodbye love
goodbye love
came to say goodbye love goodbye
just came to say goodbye love
goodbye love goodbye love goodbye love
hello disease
(Mimi runs away, Collins is booted from the funeral
hame when he can't pay the bill. Benny offers to pay;
then he and
Collins go drinking. Mark stays behind to prepare for
GROUP A
-Hot-Hot-Hot-Sweat-Sweet
-Wet-Wet-Wet-Red-Heat
-Hot-Hot-Hot-Sweat-Sweet
-Wet-Wet-Wet-Red Heat
Please Don't Stop Please
Please Don't Stop Stop
Stop Stop Stop Don't
Please Please Please Please
-Hot-Hot-Hot-Sweat-Sweet
-Wet-Wet-Wet-Red-Heat
-Sticky-Licky-Trickle-Tickle
-Steamy-Creamy-Stroking-Soaking
GROUP B
-Hot-Hot-Hot-Sweat-Sweet-Wet-Wet-Wet-
Red-Heat
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
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
Love You
I Love
You I Love
You!
Take Me
Take Me
I Love You
ROGER'S VOICE
JOANNE'S VOICE
Wait
MIMI'S VOICE
Slipped
COLLINS' VOICE
Shit
JOANNE'S VOICE
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
It Was Bad For Me - Was It Bad For You?
JOANNE
It's Over
MAUREEN
It's Over
ROGER
It's Over
MIMI
It's Over
COLLINS
KARESSA
You're on the air,
I'm underground
Signal's fading,
Can't be found
I finally open up
For you I would do anything
But you've turned off the volume
Just when I've begun to sing
Come to your senses
Defenses are not the way to go
And you know,
Or at least you knew
Everything's strange,
You've changed and I don't know what to do
To get through
I don't know what to do
I have to laugh
We sure put on a show
Love is passe in this day and age
How can we expect it to grow?
You as the knight
Me as the queen
All I've got tonight
Is static on a screen
Come to your senses
The fences inside are not for real
If we feel as we did, and I do
Can't you recall
When this all began
It was only you and me
It was only me and you
But now the air is filled with confusion
We've replaced care with illusion
It's cool to be cold
Nothing lasts anymore
Love becomes disposable
This is the shape of things
We cannot ignore
Come to your senses
Suspense is fine
If you're just an empty image
Emanating out of a screen
Baby be real,
You can feel again
You don't need a music box melody
To know what I mean
Deep in my eyes,
What do you see
Deep in my sighs,
Listen to me
Let the music commence from inside
Not only one sense, but use all five
Come to your senses
Come to your senses
Come to your senses
FIVE HOMELESS PEOPLE
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Christmas Bells Are Ringing/Singing
On TV - At SAKS
SQUEEGIEMAN
Honest Living, Honest Living
Honest Living, Honest Living
Honest Living, Honest Living
ALL FIVE HOMELESS
Can't You Spare A Dime Or Two
Here But For The Grace Of God Go You
You'll Be Merry
I'll Be Merry
Tho Merry Ain't In My Vocabulary
No Sleighbells
No Santa Claus
No Yule Log
No Tinsel
No Holly
No Hearth
SOLOIST
'Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer'
ALL FIVE
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
No Room At The Holiday Inn - Oh No
And It's Beginning To Snow
VENDORS
Hats, Bats, Shoes, Booze
Mountain Bikes, Potpourri
Leather Bags, Girlie Mags
Forty Fives, AZT
VENDOR #1
No One's Buying
Feel Like Crying
No Room AT THe Holiday Inn - Oh No
And It's Beginning To Snow
VENDOR #2
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
COLLINS
You Don't Have To Do This
ANGEL
Hush Your Mouth, It's Christmas
COLLINS
I Do Not Deserve You, Angel
COLLINS
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...
ANGEL
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
She Got You Out!
ROGER
She Was More Than Okay
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
There - That's Her
MARK
Maureen?
ROGER
Mimi!
MARK
ROGER
I Should Go
BOTH
Hey - It's Beginning To Snow
COPS
I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas
MIMI & JUNKIES
Follow The Man - Follow The Man
With His Pockets Ful 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?
ROGER
MIMI
ROGER
I Just Want To 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 Lover Boy - 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
BENNY
(On cellular phone)
Wish Me Luck Alison -
The Protest Is On
COAT VENDOR
L. L. Bean,
Geoffrey Beene
Burburry Zip Out
Lining JUNKIES
Got Any C Man?
Got Any D Man?
Got Any B Man
Got Any Crack
Got Any X
SQUEEGIEMAN
Honest Living -
ROGER
Mark, This Is Mimi -
MARK/MIMI
ROGER
She's Be Dining - (With Us)
COAT VENDOR
Here's A New Arrival
THE MAN
That Is An Ounce
VENDORS
Hats, Dats, Bats
COLLINS
That's My Coat!
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
BENNY
Which Investor Is Coming??
COLLINS
I'll Take The Leather
BENNY
Your Father? - Damn!
HOMELESS & VENDORS
Christmas Bells Are Swinging
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
In My Dreams - Next Year
Once You Donate You Can Go
Celebrate In Tuckahoe
You'll Feel Cheery
I'll Feel Cherry
Tho' I Dont 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 - Fa La La La
You Have The Right To Remain
Silent Night Holy Night
Fall On Your Knees On 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'
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 Crack-Any X-Any Jugie Boogie?
COAT VENDOR
Twenty Five
ANGEL
Fifteen
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
Twenty Four
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
Not Today
Twenty Three
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
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
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...
And It's Beginning To
And It's Beginning To
And It's Beginning To---
MAUREEN
Joanne, which way to the stage!
JONATHAN LARSON
Don't step on Simon, Renaud and Phillipe
They're still on the living room floor, asleep
Flight was delayed
But they got it so cheap
In Amsterdam
The cat jumped off of the fire escape
He's a little shook up
But he don't have a scrape
Climb up to the roof
Let's make a crepe
You bring the jam
This is the life, bo bo, bo bo bo
This is the life, bo bo, bo bo bo
This is the life, bo bo, bo bo bo
Bohemia
Shower's in the kitchen
There might be some soap
Dishes in the sink
Brush your teeth, if you can cope
Toilet's in the closet
You better hope
There's a light bulb in there, bo bo bo
Dino called yesterday
The rent is overdue
Con Ed and New York Telephone are mad too
Better screen the calls for a day or two
Or cough up your share
This is the life, bo bo, bo bo bo
This is the life, bo bo, bo bo bo
This is the life, bo bo, bo bo bo
Bohemia
Revolving door roommates
Prick up your ears
Fourteen people in just four years
Ann and Max and Jonathan
And Jonathan and Kerri
David, Tim, no Tim was just a guest
From June to January
Margaret, Lisa, David, Susie,
Stephen, Joe and Sam
And Elsa, the bill collector's dream
Who is still on the lam
Don't forget the neighbors
Michelle and Gay
More like a family
Than a family, hey
The cat's - Lucy, Mr. Beebe
Bouncer, rest his soul
And Finster, who took one look
And stayed for days down in that hole.
This is the life, bo bo, bo bo bo
This is the life, bo bo, bo bo bo
This is the life, bo bo, bo bo bo
Bohemia
The garbage trucks
Have turned into limousines
Rat infested diners
Now are fancy restaurants
The gallery opens
You know what that means
There goes the neighborhood
Here come the debutantes
But at 508 the halls
Are still that dingy brown
508, the walls are cracked or falling down
508, we all know the day it changes
Is the day we all should blow this town
The time is flying
And everything is dying
I thought by now
I'd have a dog, a kid, and wife
The ship is sort of sinking
So let's start Drinking
Before we start thinking
Is this a life?
Is this a life?, bo bo, bo bo bo
Is this a life?, no no, no no no
Is this a life?, bo bo, bo bo bo
Bohemia
Bohemia
Bo-he-mi-a
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 Your 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
MIMI
The Heart May Freeze Or It Can Burn
The Pain Will Ease If I Can Learn
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?
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
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 & OTHERS
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(x6)
ROGER
Control Your
Temper
She Doesn't See
Who Say's 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
Take Your Powder
Take Your Candle
Take Your Brown Eyes
Your Pretty Smile
Your Silhouette
Another Time,
Another Place
Another Rhyme,
A Warm Embrace
Another Dance,
Another Way
Another Chance,
JONATHAN
Stop the clock - Take time out
Time to regroup before you lose the bout
Freeze the frame - Back it up
Time to refocus before they wrap it up
Years are getting shorter
Lines on your face are getting longer
Feel like you're treading water
But the riptide's getting stronger
Don't panic, don't jump ship
Can't fight it, like taxes
At least it happens only once in your life
They're singing, "Happy Birthday"
You just wanna lay down and cry
Not just another birthday, it's 30/90
Why can't you stay 29
Hell, you still feel like you're 22
Turn thirty 1990
Bang! You're dead,
What can you do?
What can you do?
What can you do?
MICHAEL
Clear the runway - Make another pass
Try one more approach before you're out of gas
JONATHAN
Friends are getting fatter
Hairs on you head are getting thinner
Feel like a clean up batter
On a team that ain't a winner?
MICHAEL
Don't freak out, don't strike out
Can't fight it, like City Hall
JONATHAN
At least you're not alone
Your friends are there too
They're singing, "Happy Birthday"
JONATHAN and MICHAEL
You just wish you could run away
JONATHAN
Who cares about a birthday?
But 30/90, hey
Can't you be optimistic?
You're no longer the ingenue
Turn thirty, 1990
Boom! You're passe
JONATHAN and MICHAEL
What can you do?
JONATHAN
What can you do?
What can you do?
Peter Pan and Tinkerbell
Which way to Never Never Land?
Emerald City's gone to hell
Since the wizard
Blew off his command
JONATHAN
On the streets you hear the voices
Lost children, crocodiles
But you're not into
Making choices, wicked witches,
Poppy fields, or men behind the curtain
Tiger lilies, ruby slippers
Clock is ticking, that's for certain
JONATHAN
They're singing, "Happy Birthday"
I just wish it all were a dream
It feels much more like doomsday
Fuck
30/90
JONATHAN
Seems like I'm in for a twister
I don't see a rainbow, do you?
Turn 30 in the 90's
JONATHAN
Into my hands now
The ball has passed
I want the spoils, but not too fast
The world is calling
It's now or Neverland
Why can't I stay a child forever
30/90
30/90
30/90
30/90
30/90
30/90
What can I do?
MARK
December 24th, nine p.m.
Eastern Standard time
From here on in
I shooot without a script
See if anything comes of it
Instead of my old shit
First shot - Roger
Tuning the Fender guitar
He hasn't played in a year
ROGER
This won't tune
MARK
So we hear
He's just coming back
From half a year of withdrawal
ROGER
Are you talking to me?
MARK
Not at all
Are you ready?
Hold that focus - steady
Tell the folks at home
What you're doing Roger...
ROGER
I'm writing one great song...
MARK
The phone rings
ROGER
Saved!
MARK
We screen