Boheme

ANGEL:Who died?

BENNY:Our Akita

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

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

Hey Mister- she's my sister

RESTAURANT MAN

So that's five miso soup, four ******* 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//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

We're close

ANGEL, COLLINS, MAUREEN, MARK, MR. GREY

Brothers!

MARK, ANGEL, MIMI & THREE OTHERS

*****uals, ******uals, 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

ALL

Vaclav Havel - The *** Pistols, 8BC,

To no shame - never playing the Fame Game

COLLINS

ALL

To sodomy,

It's between God and me

To S & M

BENNY:Waiter...Waiter...Waiter

La vie Boheme

ALL

COLLINS

In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromptu salon will commence

immediately following dinner

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

Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap, will perform her famous lawn

BENNY

Your new boyfriend doesn't know about us?

MIMI

chair-handcuff dance to the sounds of iced tea being stirred

There's nothing to know

MARK

Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song

Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability to hold an

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"

MIMI

Excuse me did I do something wrong?

I get invited then ignored all night long

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

I should tell, you-

MIMI

I've got baggage too

I should tell you

Baggage - wine And beer!

MIMI

BOTH

AZT break

You?

MIMI

Me , You?

Mimi