ANGEL Who died? BENNY Our akita MARK, RODGER, ANGEL, COLLINS Evita 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 (etc.) 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, 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 Boheme La Vie Boheme MR. GREY AHHEMM MAUREEN Hey Mister- She's my sister MR. GREY So that's five miso soup, Four seaweed salad Three soy burger dinner, Two tofu dog platter And one pasta with meatless balls A BOY Eww COLLINS It tastes the same MIMI If you close your eyes MR. GREY 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 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 & 3 OTHERS Bisexuals, trisexuals, Homo Sapiens, Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, Pee Wee Herman German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein Antonioni, 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 To marijuana ALL To sodomy It's between God and me To S & M BENNY Waiter...Waiter...Waiter ALL La Vie Boheme COLLINS In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromtu salon will commence immediately following dinner... 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 never studied. ROGER And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability to hold an erection on high holy days. MARK And Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap, will perform her famous lawn chair-handcuff dance to the sounds of iced tea being stirred. MARK And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song MARK 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 an Anarchist- Including the tale of his successful reprogramming of the MIT virtual reality equipment to self-destruct as it broadcasts 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 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 ROGER I should tell you- MIMI I've got baggage, too ROGER I should tell you-- BOTH Baggage- Wine- OTHERS And Beer! MIMI AZT break ROGER You? MIMI Me. You? ROGER Mimi