Rent: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical (12 page)

ROGER and OTHER HALF OF COMPANY

ALL

BENNY

ROGER

MARK

ALL

MARK and ROGER

MARK, ROGER, and HALF THE COMPANY

MARK, ROGER, and OTHER HALF OF COMPANY

ALL

ROGER and MARK

5. You Okay, Honey?

The Street: in front of the pay phone

(A HOMELESS MAN appears above on the right. Across the stage, sitting on the Christmas tree sculpture is ANGEL DUMOTT SCHUNARD, with a plastic pickle tub balanced like a drum between his knees.)

HOMELESS MAN

(The HOMELESS MAN exits. ANGEL gets a good beat going on the tub until a moan interrupts him. He starts to drum again and sees COLLINS limp to downstage-left proscenium.)

ANGEL