La Vie Boheme [A]

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[ANGEL]

Who died?



[BENNY]

Our Akita



[BENNY], [MARK], [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 fantasy 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



[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 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]

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



[ROGER]

Eww



[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



[MR. GREY]

Sisters?



[MAUREEN & JOANNE]

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

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 the 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

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 anarchist

Including the tail of his successful reprogramming of the M.I.T. virtual reality equipment

To self-destruct, as it broadcasts 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!



[MIMI]

AZT break



[ROGER]

You?



[MIMI]

Me , You?



[ROGER]

Mimi