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
COLLINS & ROGER Dies irae - dies illa, Kyrie eleison Yitgadal v'yitkadash
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 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, Hatind 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
WAITER 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
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 dildoes, 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 GIRLS To anything taboo
COLLINS & ROGER Ginsberg, Dylan Cunnigham and Cage,
COLLINS Lenny Bruse
ROGER Langston Hughes
MAUREEN To the stage
BOHEMIANS To Uta. To Buddha. 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
ANGELS & COLLINS Brothers!
MARK, ANGEL & MIMI Bisexuals, trisexuals, homo sapiens, Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, Pee Wee Herman German wine, turpetine, Gertrude Stein Antoniotti, Bertolucci, Kurosawa Carmina Burana
ALL To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstacy Vaclav Havel - The Sex Pistols, 8BC To no shame - never playing the Fame Game
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 perform 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