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RENT lyrics : "la vie boheme"

ANGEL
Who died?


BENNY
Our akita


MARK, RODGER, ANGEL, COLLINS
Evita


BENNY
You 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




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 $$# 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


MR. GREY
Ahemm


MAUREEN
Hey Mister... She's my sister

WAITER
So that's five miso soup,

Four seaweed salad
Three soy burger dinner,
Two tofu dark platter
And one pasta with meatless balls


ROGER
Eww

COLLINS
It tastes the same


MIMI
If you close your eyes

WAITER

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 !@(*s, 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


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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

MR. GREY
Sisters?

MAUREEN
We're close

ANGEL, COLLINS
Brothers!

MARK, ANGEL, MIMI & 3 OTHERS
Bisexuals, trisexuals, !@&) 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 !@!@&&

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... Maureen Johnson, just back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the eleventh street lot, will preform Native American tribal chants backwards through her vocoder, while accompanying herself on the electric cello- Which she ain't never studied
.

ROGER
And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability to hold an erection on high holy days.

MARK
and Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap, will perform her famous lawn chair/handcuff dance to the sounds of iced tea being stirred


And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song

(Roger picks up a guiter and plays)

That doesn't remind us of 'Musetta's
Waltz'

COLLINS
Angel Dumott Schunard will model her latest fall fashions from Paris while accompanying herself on the 10-gallon plastic pickle tub.

ANGEL
And Collins will recount his exploits as Anarchist... Including the tale of his successful reprogramming of the MIT virtual reality equipment to self-destruct as it broadcasts the words:

ALL
'Actual Reality - ACT UP - Fight AIDS!'

PERSON
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--

BOTH
Baggage-


OTHERS
Wine And Beer!

MIMI
AZT break

ROGER
You?

MIMI
Me. You?

ROGER
Mimi

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