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GROUP B (MIMI, COLLINS, MAUREEN, ANGEL)

Hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet

Wet-wet-wet-red-heat

COLLINS:

Touch

MAUREEN:

Taste

MIMI:

Deep

COLLINS:

Dark

MAUREEN:

Kiss

COLLINS:

Beg

MIMI:

Slap

MIMI, MAUREEN & COLLINS

Fear

COLLINS:

Thick

COLLINS, MIMI & MAUREEN

Red, red

Red, red

Red, red please

MAUREEN:

Harder

ANGEL:

Faster

MAUREEN:

Wetter

MIMI:

Bastard

COLLINS:

You whore

MAUREEN:

You cannibal

MIMI & ANGEL

More

MAUREEN:

You animal

MAUREEN, COLLINS & MIMI

Fluid no fluid no contact yes

No contact

ALL:

Fire fire burn-burn yes

No latex rubber rubber

Fire latex rubber latex bummer

Lover bummer

(The music explodes into a fevered rhythmic heat as ANGEL is revealed

in a lone spotlight, dancing wildly)

ANGEL:

Take me

Take me

Today for you

Tomorrow for me

Today me

Tomorrow you

Tomorrow you

Love you

Love you

I love

You I love

You!

Take me

Take me

I love you

(The music dies as ANGEL vanishes)

ROGER'S VOICE

Um

JOANNE'S VOICE

Wait

MIMI'S VOICE

Slipped

COLLINS' VOICE

Sh*t

JOANNE'S VOICE

Ow

ROGER'S VOICE

Where'd it go?

MIMI'S VOICE

Safe

COLLINS' VOICE

Damn

MAUREEN'S VOICE

I think I missed

Don't get pissed

ALL:

It was bad for me - was it bad for you?

JOANNE:

It's over

MAUREEN:

It's over

ROGER:

It's over

MIMI:

It's over

COLLINS:

It's over

I'LL COVER YOU (REPRISE) (In a church - Angel's memorial)

MIMI:

Angel was one of my closest friends. It's right that it's Halloween, because it

was her favorite holiday. I knew we'd hit it off from the moment we met. That

skin head was bothering her, and she said she was more of a man than he'd

ever be, and more of a woman than he'd ever get

MARK:

and then there was that time that he walked up to this group of tourists

and, they were petrified, because, a) they were obviously lost, and b) they had

probably never spoken to a drag queen before in their lives...and he...she just

offered to escort them out of Alphabet City, and then she let them take a

picture with her, and then she said she'd help 'em find the Circle Line

MAUREEN:

so much more original then any of us...you'd find an old table cloth on the

street and make a dress...and next year, sure enough - they'd be mass

producing them at the Gap. You always said how lucky you were that we

were all friends. But it was us, baby, who were the lucky ones

COLLINS:

Live in my house

I'll be your shelter

Just pay me back

With one thousand kisses

Be my lover

And I'll cover you

Open your door I'll be your tenant

Don't got much baggage to lay at your feet

But sweet kisses I've got to spare

I'll be there I'll cover you

I think they meant it

When they said you can't buy love

Now I know you can rent it

A new lease you were, my love, on life

All my life

I've longed to discover

Something as true

As this is

(The following is sung simultaneously.)

JOANNE & SOLOIST

So with a thousand sweet kisses

I'll cover you with a thousand sweet kisses

I'll cover you with a thousand sweet kisses

I'll cover you with a thousand sweet kisses

I'll cover you

COLLINS:

If you're cold and you're lonely

You've got one nickel only

When you're worn out and tired

When your heart has expired

COMPANY:

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred moments so dear

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred measure a year

Oh lover I'll cover you

Oh lover I'll cover you

COLLINS & COMPANY

Oh lover

I'll cover you

Oh lover

COLLINS:

I'll cover you

COMPANY:

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes

Five hundred twenty-five thousand seasons of love

COLLINS:

I'll cover you

HALLOWEEN (Outside the church)

MARK:

(On the pay phone)

Hi. It's Mark Cohen. Is Alexi there?...No, don't bother her. Just tell her I'm

running a little late for our appointment...Yes, I'm still coming... Yes, I signed

the contract... Thanks

How did we get here?

How the hell

Pan left - close on the steeple of the church

How did I get here?

How the hell...

Christmas

Christmas Eve last year

How could a night so frozen be so scalding hot?

How can a morning this mild be so raw?

Why are entire years strewn

On the cutting room floor of memory

When single frames from one magic night

Forever flicker in close-up

On the 3D Imax of my mind

That's poetic

That's pathetic

Why did Mimi knock on Roger's door

And Collins choose that phone booth

Back where Angel set up his drums

Why did Maureen's equipment break down

Why am I the witness

And when I capture it on film

Will it mean that it's the end

And I'm alone

GOODBYE LOVE:

(The PRINCIPALS emerge from the church)

MIMI (to ROGER)

It's true you sold your guitar and bought a car?

ROGER:

It's true- I'm leaving now for Santa Fe

It's true you're with this yuppie scum?

BENNY:

You said you'd never speak to him again

MIMI:

Not now

MAUREEN:

Who said that you have any say

In who she says things to at all?

ROGER:

Yeah

JOANNE:

Who said that you should

Stick your nose in other people's

MAUREEN:

Who said I was talking to you?

JOANNE:

We used to have this fight each night

MARK:

Calm down

JOANNE:

She'd never admit I existed

MARK:

Everyone please!

MIMI:

He was the same way he was always

"Run away hit the road

Don't commit" you're full of sh*t

JOANNE:

She's in denial

MIMI:

He's in denial

JOANNE:

Didn't give an inch

When I gave a mile

MARK:

Come on

MIMI:

I gave a mile

ROGER:

Gave a mile to who?

MARK & BENNY

Come on guys chill

MIMI & JOANNE

I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had

Someone to live for unafraid to say I love you

ROGER:

All your words are nice Mimi

But love's not a three way street

You'll never share real love

Until you love yourself I should know

COLLINS:

You all said you'd be cool today

So please for my sake

I can't believe he's gone

(to ROGER) I can't believe you're going

I can't believe this family must die

Angel helped us believe in love

I can't believe you disagree

ALL:

I can't believe this is goodbye

(MAUREEN and JOANNE look at each other)

MAUREEN:

Pookie

JOANNE:

Honeybear

(They embrace)

JOANNE:

I missed you

MAUREEN:

I missed your smell

JOANNE:

I missed your mouth...Your

(They kiss, but MAUREEN pulls away)

MAUREEN:

Ow

JOANNE:

What?

MAUREEN:

Nothing, Pookie

JOANNE:

No, baby, you said ow...What?

MAUREEN:

Well, you bit my tongue

JOANNE:

No, I didn't

MAUREEN:

You did I'm bleeding

JOANNE:

No, it isn't

MAUREEN:

I think I should know

JOANNE:

Let me see

MAUREEN:

She doesn't believe me!

JOANNE:

I was only trying to

(They laugh, hug, and wave goodbye, exiting stage right. The PASTOR

from the church emerges on the above)

PASTOR:

Thomas B. Collins

COLLINS:

Coming

(The PASTOR exits above and COLLINS exits into the church. BENNY

stands off to the side as MIMI approaches ROGER, who turns away. She

hesitates before leaving with BENNY. ROGER and MARK are left alone)

MARK:

I hear there are great restaurants out west

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