MARK
Tell the folks at home what you're doing Roger ROGER
I'm writing one great song
MARK
The phone rings. ROGER
Yesss!
MARK We screen. "Speak" . ("Beeeep!")
ROGER & MARK'S ANSWERING MACHINE
(Lights fade up on the street: the front
ROGER's building. Nearby is a battered public pay phone. TOM
COLLINS stands at the phone.)
COLLINS "Chestnuts roasting
(as MARK picks up the phone)
ROGER & MARK
Collins! COLLINS
I'm downstairs Hey!
MARK Roger picked up the phone??
COLLINS No, it's me.
MARK Throw down the key.
COLLINS MARK
A wild night is now pre
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? This past year's rent which I let slide
BENNY MARK
Let slide? You said we were 'golden' ROGER
When you bought the building When we were roommates
MARK ROGER
Remember 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? Last month I was dumped
MARK ROGER
She's in love BENNY She's got a new man?
MARK
Well
BENNY
What's his name? BOTH
Joanne Rent, my amigos, is due
BENNY
Be there in a few Or I will have to evict you
(ROGER defiantly picks out Musetta's theme from Puccini's La
Boheme on the electric guitar. The fuse blows on the amp.)
MARK The power blows.
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