Various Artists
Rent Soundtrack, Cast Recording
Tune Up #2
Tell the folks at home what you're doing Roger
I'm writing one great song --
The phone rings.
Yesss!
We screen.
ROGER & MARK'S ANSWERING MACHINE
Speak ... (Beeeep!)
(Lights fade up on the street: the front-door area of MARK and
ROGER's building. Nearby is a battered public pay phone. TOM
COLLINS stands at the phone.)
COLLINS
Chestnuts roasting ---
ROGER & MARK
(as MARK picks up the phone)
Collins!
COLLINS
I'm downstairs
COLLINS
Roger picked up the phone??
No, it's me.
COLLINS
Throw down the key.
A wild night is now pre-ordained
COLLINS
I may be detained.
What does he mean...?
What do you mean detained?
Ho ho ho.
MARK & ROGER
Benny! Shit.
Dudes, I'm on my way
MARK & ROGER
Great! Fuck.
I need the rent
What rent?
This past year's rent which I let slide
Let slide? You said we were 'golden'
When you bought the building
When we were roommates
Remember -- you lived here!?
How could I forget?
You, me, Collins and Maureen
How is the drama queen?
She's performing tonight
I know.
Still her production manager?
Two days ago I was bumped
You still dating her?
Last month I was dumped
She's in love
She's got a new man?
Well -- no
What's his name?
Joanne
Rent, my amigos, is due
Or I will have to evict you
Be there in a few
(ROGER defiantly picks out Musetta's theme from Puccini's La
Boheme on the electric guitar. The fuse blows on the amp.)
The power blows ...

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