Rent: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical (11 page)

(MARK and ROGER stoke the fire. Crosscut to BENNY's Range Rover.)

BENNY

(on cell phone)

(Three locales: JOANNE at the pay phone, MARK and ROGER at the loft, and COLLINS on the ground. The following is sung simultaneously.)

BENNY

COLLINS

MARK

(reading from a script page)

JOANNE

ROGER

JOANNE

MARK

(to audience)

JOANNE

(realizing she's been cut off)

MARK and ROGER

JOANNE

(The phone rings in the loft. MARK picks it up.)

MARK

MARK and HALF THE COMPANY