BENNY Mimi, I'm surprised A bright and charming girl like you Hangs out with these slackers Who don't adhere to deals They make fun- yet I am the one Attempting to do some good Or do you really want a neighborhood Where people piss on your stoop every night? Bohemia, Bohemia Is 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 Bohème
ALL La vie Bohème La vie Bohème La vie Bohème La vie Bohème
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, 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 Bohème! La vie Bohème
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 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 GIRLS To anything taboo
COLLINS & ROGER Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage,
COLLINS Lenny Bruce
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 Bohème!
MAUREEN And wipe the speakers off before you pack
JOANNE Yes, Maureen
MAUREEN Well, hurry back!
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, turpentine, Gertrude Stein Antoniotti, 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 In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromptu salon will commence immediately following dinner Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble rap, Will perform her famous \"lawn chair handcuff dance\" To the sounds of iced tea being stirred
ROGER And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability to hold an erection on the high holy days.
MARK And 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.
BENNY Your new boyfriend doesn't know about us.
MIMI There's nothing to know
BENNY Don't you think that we should discuss...
MIMI It was three months ago.
BENNY He doesn't act like he's with you.
MIMI We're taking it slow.
BENNY Where is he now?
MIMI He's right... Hmm, where'd he go?
MARK And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song. (Roger plays a solo) That doesn't remind us of \"Musetta's Waltz!\"
COLLINS Angel Dumott Schunard will 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 tale of the 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\"
BENNY Check!
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