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Various Artists
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Rent Soundtrack, Cast Recording
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Rent
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(The COMPANY bursts into a flurry of movement. Then everyone
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except MARK and ROGER freezes in a group upstage.)
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MARK
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How do you document real life
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When real life is getting more
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Like fiction each day
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Headlines -- bread-lines
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Blow my mind
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And now this deadline
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"Eviction -- or pay"
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Rent!
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ROGER
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How do you write a song
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When the chords sound wrong
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Though they once sounded right and rare
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When the notes are sour
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Where is the power
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You once had to ignite the air
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MARK
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And we're hungry and frozen
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ROGER
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Some life that we've chosen
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TOGETHER
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How we gonna pay
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How we gonna pay
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How we gonna pay
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Last year's rent
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MARK
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We light candles
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ROGER
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How do you start a fire
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When there's nothing to burn
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And it feels like something's stuck in your flue
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MARK
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How can you generate heat
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When you can't feel your feet
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BOTH
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And they're turning blue!
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MARK
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You light up a mean blaze
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(ROGER grabs one of his own posters.)
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ROGER
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With posters --
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(MARK grabs old manuscripts.)
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MARK
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And screenplays
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ROGER & MARK
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How we gonna pay
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How we gonna pay
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How we gonna pay
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Last year's rent
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(Lights go down on the loft and go up on JOANNE JEFFERSON,
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who's at the pay phone.)
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JOANNE
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(On phone)
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Don't screen, Maureen
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It's me -- Joanne
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Your substitute production manager
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Hey hey hey! (Did you eat?)
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Don't change the subject Maureen
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But darling -- you haven't eaten all day
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You won't throw up
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You won't throw up
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The digital delay ---
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Didn't blow up (exactly)
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There may have been one teeny tiny spark
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You're not calling Mark
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COLLINS
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How do you stay on your feet
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When on every street
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It's 'trick or treat'
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(And tonight it's 'trick')
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'Welcome back to town'
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Oh, I should lie down
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Everything's brown
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And uh -- oh
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I feel sick
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MARK
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(At the window)
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Where is he?
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COLLINS
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Getting dizzy
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(He collapses.)
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MARK & ROGER
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How we gonna pay
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How we gonna pay
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How we gonna pay
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Last year's rent
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(MARK and ROGER stoke the fire. Crosscut to BENNY's Range
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Rover.)
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BENNY
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Alison baby -- you sound sad
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I don't believe those two after everything I've done
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Ever since our wedding I'm dirt -- They'll see
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I can help them all out in the long run
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BENNY
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Forces are gathering
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Forces are gathering
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Can't turn away
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Forces are gathering
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COLLINS
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Ughhhhh--
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Ughhhhh--
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Ughhhhh-- I can't think
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Ughhhhh--
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Ughhhhh--
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Ughhhhh-- I need a drink
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MARK (reading from a script page)
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"The music ignites the night with passionate fire"
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JOANNE
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Maureen -- I'm not a theatre person
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ROGER
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"The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit"
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JOANNE
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Could never be a theatre person
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MARK
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Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground
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JOANNE (realizing she's been cut off)
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Hello?
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MARK & ROGER
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And feel the heat of the future's glow
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JOANNE
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Hello?
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MARK
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Hello? Maureen?
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--Your equipment won't work?
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Okay, all right, I'll go!
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MARK & HALF THE COMPANY
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How do you leave the past behind
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When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart
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It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out
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Till you're torn apart
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Rent!
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ROGER & OTHER HALF OF COMPANY
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How can you connect in an age
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Where strangers, landlords, lovers
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Your own blood cells betray
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ALL
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What binds the fabric together
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When the raging, shifting winds of change
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Keep ripping away
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BENNY
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Draw a line in the sand
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And then make a stand
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ROGER
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Use your camera to spar
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MARK
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Use your guitar
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ALL
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When they act tough - you call their bluff
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MARK & ROGER
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We're not gonna pay
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MARK & ROGER W/HALF THE COMPANY
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We're not gonna pay
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MARK & ROGER W/OTHER HALF OF COMPANY
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We're not gonna pay
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ALL
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Last year's rent
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This year's rent
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Next year's rent
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Rent rent rent rent rent
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We're not gonna pay rent
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ROGER & MARK
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'Cause everything is rent
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