Tune Up #2

(album: Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording) - 1996)

[MARK:]
Tell the folks at home what you're doing Roger

[ROGER:]
I'm writing one great song

[MARK:]
The phone rings

[ROGER:]
Yes!

[MARK:]
We screen

[MARK/ROGER VOICEMAIL:]
Speak...

[COLLINS:]
"Chestnuts roasting..."

[MARK & ROGER:]
Collins!

[COLLINS:]
I'm downstairs

[MARK:]
Hey!

[COLLINS:]
Roger picked up the phone?

[MARK:]
No, it's me

[COLLINS:]
Throw down the key

[MARK:]
A wild night is now pre-ordained

[COLLINS:]
I may be detained

[MARK:]
What does he mean...?

What do you mean "detained"?

[BENNY:]
Ho ho ho!

[MARK & ROGER:]
Benny! Shit

[BENNY:]
Dudes, I'm on my way

[MARK & ROGER:]
Great! Fuck

[BENNY:]
I need the rent

[MARK:]
What rent?

[BENNY:]
This past year's rent which I let slide

[MARK:]
Let slide? You said we were "golden"

[ROGER:]
When you bought the building

[MARK:]
When we were roommates

[ROGER:]
Remember you lived here

[BENNY:]
How could I forget?
You, me, Collins and Maureen
How is the drama queen?

[MARK:]
She's performing tonight

[BENNY:]
I know
Still her production manager?

[MARK:]
Two days ago I was bumped

[BENNY:]
You still dating her?

[MARK:]
Last month I was dumped

[ROGER:]
She's in love

[BENNY:]
She's got a new man?

[MARK:]
Well, no...

[BENNY:]
What's his name?

[MARK & ROGER:]
Joanne

[BENNY:]
Rent, my amigos, is due
Or I will have to evict you
Be there in a few

[MARK:]
The power blows...