Rent: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical (31 page)

GROUP #4

(ROGER puts on his coat and exits loft.)

17. X-Mo Bells #2/Bummer

On the street

THREE HOMELESS PEOPLE

SQUEEGEEMAN

(SQEEGEEMAN recoils as if he's almost been run over by a car.)

(Three POLICE OFFICERS-in full riot gear-enter and approach sleeping BLANKET PERSON. The FIRST OFFICER pokes her with a nightstick.)

HOMELESS PERSON

(Without answering, the FIRST OFFICER raises his nightstick again.)

MARK

(pointing his camera)

(The FIRST OFFICER lowers his stick.)

HOMELESS PERSON

POLICE OFFICERS

(The POLICE OFFICERS exit. MARK films BLANKET PERSON.)

BLANKET PERSON

(to MARK)

ANGEL

BLANKET PERSON

(BLANKET PERSON crosses to downstage left with another HOMELESS PERSON.)

18. Santa Fe

ANGEL

MARK

ANGEL