Broadway Mixup

Summary: What if two songs with the same title of the musicals My Fair Lady and Rent were accidentally switched? Would the ending of each be the same?

Disclaimer: Don't own either because Rent is Jonathan Larson's and My Fair Lady music belongs to Frederick Loewe, and the play belongs to George Bernard Shaw. And for the record Rent is based off La Boheme so Pucini should be recognized as well here. (some changes will be made but only to accommodate the music to the plays. )


Rent

Mimi feels alone, and Roger is close to leaving her. He is afraid of consequences and the truth. He tried to tell her not to shoot up with drugs but why not when one has a fatal disease and there is no escape. Why can't that person have something to escape reality with? Since when did he become the boss of her? When she was purchasing her dose, he saw and then it just came out right there. Someone who loves her shouldn't be telling her what to do, but should be understanding and support her.

Mimi (singing):
What a fool I was, what dominated fool,
to think that you were the earth and the sky,
What a fool I was, What an elevated fool,
What a mutton-headed dote was I!
No, my reverberated friend,
you are not the beginning and the end.

There'll be spring every year without you. The land still will be here without you.
There'll be fruit on the tree.
And a shore by the sea.
There'll be trumpets and tea without you.

Art and music will thrive without you. Somehow beats will come alive without you.
And there still will be rain on that plain down in Spain,
even that will remain without you.
I can do without you.

You, dear friend, who sought so well,

They can still rule with land without you.
Windsor Castle will stand without you.
And without much ado we can all muddle through without you.

Without pulling it the tide comes in,
without your twirling it the Earth can spin,
Without your pushing them, the clouds roll by,
If they can do without you, ducky, so can I
I shall not feel alone without you
I can stand on my own without you
So go back in your shell
I can do bloody well
Without...

MIMI (speaking): Goodbye Roger. You made your choice. Now Go.

ROGER: Mimi…

MIMI: Just go, I will be fine… without you.

(Roger walks away)

MIMI (singing softly): Goodbye love,
goodbye love came to say goodbye love goodbye
just came to say goodbye love goodbye love goodbye love
Hello disease.

ROGER: (whisper) I should tell you, I should tell you, I love you too.

Roger keeps walking and goes to Santa Fe to see if he can make fortune for himself, but he still doesn't know if it will be worth it to go back for Christmas to see the gang he left behind or if there is a gang left behind.

He wants to gain everyone's respect by finishing his song. He saw something while Mimi was singing him that untrue song of how she does not need him anymore. Her eyes on the other hand have told a different story, of how she is scared and needs him. The inspiration is right before him all along. Now, he thinks, I have something to sing about. He works on it long hours of the night and putting finishing touches on it on the bus back to New York.

When he gets back, he finds Mark first, then asks about Mimi. Mimi has not been with them over 4 weeks, she has chosen an unsheltered life, and is missing. They are sending a search party out, and on Christmas Day they finally find her barely alive.

She is weak and looks like she is near the end. Roger holds her near and sings to her softly his creation.

ROGER
Your eyes
As we said our goodbyes
Can't get them out of my mind
And I find I can't hide
From your eyes
The ones that took me by surprise
The night you came into my life
Where there's moonlight I see your eyes
How'd I let you slip away
When I'm longing so to hold you
Now I'd die for one more day
'Cause there's something
I should have told you
Yes there's something
I should have told you
When I looked into your eyes
Why does distance make us wise?
You were the song all along
And before this song dies
I should tell you I should tell you
I have always loved you
You can see it in my eyes
Mimi!

MIMI: What is that? It's beautiful.

ROGER: I wrote it for you. I wanted to tell you that I love you.

Mimi closes her eyes, lets out a sweet "mmmhmmm" and passes from this world.

At her funeral on Christmas day, all of them stand out on the roof and sing the rest of Seasons of Love, with heavy hearts and rivers of tears.