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The company take on the roles of homeless people. Mark, Collins, and Angel remain on the stage in between the crowd.
On the Street
(Three Homeless People)
Christmas Bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Out of town
Santa Fe
(Lenny/Squeegeeman)
Honest living, man
He recoils as though he's been almost hit by a car.
Feliz Navidad
(Three police officers, in full riot gear, enter, and approach
Sleeping blanket person – the first officer pokes her with a nightstick
(Swanson/Homeless person)
Evening, officers
Without answering, the first officer raises his nightstick again.
(Arthur/Mark) (pointing with his camera)
Smile for Ted Koppel, Officer Martin
The first officer lowers his nightstick.
(Swanson/Homeless person)
And a merry Christmas to your family
(Police officers)
Right
The police officers then stride offstage. Mark continues to film the Blanket Person
(Susan/Blanket Person) (to Mark)
Who the fuck do you think you are?
I don't need no goddamn help
From some bleeding heart cameraman
My life's not for you to
Make a name for yourself on
(Javier/Angel)
Easy, sugar, easy
He was just trying to
(Susan/Blanket Person)
Just trying to use me to kill his guilt
It's not that kind of movie, honey
Let's go this lot is full of
Motherfucking artists
Hey artist
You gotta dollar?
I thought not
Blanket Person crosses downstage left with another homeless person
Santa Fe
(The Street)
(Javier/Angel)
New York City
She says laughing tentatively and doing small high kicks to lighten the mood.
(Arthur/Mark)
Uh huh
(Charles/Collins)
Sing it girl-
(Javier/Angel)
Times are shitty
But I'm pretty sure they can't get worse
She says as she puts her arm around Mark.
(Arthur/Mark)
I hear you
(Javier/Angel)
It's a comfort to know
When you're singing the hit-the-road blues
That anywhere else you could possibly go
After New York would be a pleasure cruise
(Charles/Collins)
Now you're talking
He then stops Mark from leaving. Angel sits down and starts to drum.
Well I'm thwarted by a metaphysic puzzle
And I'm sick of grading papers that I know
He then sits Mark down.
And I'm shouting in my sleep, I need a muzzle
All this misery pays no salary, so
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Oh sunny Santa Fe would be nice
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
And leave this to the roaches and mice
Oh-oh
(All)
Oh
Collins then takes Angel's hand and pulls her up.
(Javier/Angel)
You teach?
(Charles/Collins)
I teach, Computer Age Philosophy
But my students would rather watch TV
(Javier/Angel)
Hm. America
(All)
America
(Charles/Collins)
You're a sensitive aesthete
Brush the sauce onto the meat
You could make the menu sparkle with
Rhyme
You could drum a gentle drum
I could seat guests as they come
Chatting not about Heidegger, but wine
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Our labors would reap financial gains
(All)
Gains, gains, gains
(Charles/Collins)
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
And save from devestation our brains
(Homeless people)
Save our brains
(All)
We'll pack up all our junk and fly so far
Away
Devote ourselves to projects that sell
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Forget this cold bohemian hell
Oh
(All)
Oh
(Charles/Collins)
Do you know the way to Santa Fe?
You know, tumbleweeds… prairie dogs…
Yeah
I'll Cover You
(Arthur/Mark)
I'll meet you at the show
I'll try and convince Roger to go
Mark then exits.
(Javier/Angel)
Alone at last
(Charles/Collins)
He'll be back, I guarantee
(Javier/Angel)
I've been hearing violins all night
(Charles/Collins)
Anything to do with me? Are we a thing?
(Javier/Angel)
Darling… we're everything
Live in my house
I'll be your shelter
Just pay me back
With one thousand kisses
Be my lover I'll cover you
(Charles/Collins)
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
(Both)
I think they meant it
When they said you can't buy love
Now I know you can rent it
A new lease you are, my love,
On life be my life
They then spin around and do a short dance.
Just slip me on
I'll be your blanket
Wherever whatever I'll be your coat
(Javier/Angel)
You'll be my king
And I'll be your castle
(Charles/Collins)
No you'll be my queen
And I'll be your moat
(Both)
I think they meant it
When they said you can't buy love
Now I know you can rent it
A new lease you are, my love,
On life all my life
I've longed to discover
Something as true as this is
(Charles/Collins)
So with a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover you
With a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover you
(Javier/Angel)
If you're cold
And you're lonely
You've got one nickel only
With a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover you
With a thousand sweet kisses
I'll cover you
(Charles/Collins)
When you're worn out
And tired
When you're heart has expired
(Both)
Oh lover I'll cover you
Oh lover I'll cover you
Angel then throws her arms around Collins. They exit as do the homeless people.
We're Okay
(Tilly/Joanne) (on cellular phone)
Steve Joanne
The Murget case?
A dismissal
Good work counselor
The pay phone then rings. Joanne answers it and begins a conversation with Maureen simultaneously juggling both calls on her cellular phone.
We're okay
Honeybear wait!
I'm on the other phone
Yes, I have the cowbell
We're okay
(into cellular phone)
So tell them we'll sue
But a settlement will do
Sexual harassment and civil rights too
Steve, you're great
(into pay phone)
No you cut the paper plate
Didja cheat on mark a lot would you say?
We're okay
Honey hold on
(into cellular phone)
Steve, hold on
(Joanne presses the call-waiting button on her cellular phone)
Hello?
Dad – yes
I beeped you
Maureen is coming to mother's hearing
We're okay
(into pay phone)
Honeybear – what?
Newt's lesbian sister
I'll tell them
(into cellular phone)
You heard?
(into pay phone)
They heard
We're okay
(into cellular phone)
And to you Dad
(Joanne presses the call-waiting as she speaks into the payphone)
Yes – Jill is there?
(into cellular phone)
Steve gotta-
(into pay phone)
Jill with the short black hair?
The Calvin Klein model?
(into cellular phone)
Steve, gotta go
(into pay phone)
The model who lives in Penthouse A?
We're
We're okay
I'm on my way
She then slams down the pay phone and cell phone shut at the same time and exits.
Christmas Bells (Various locations)
(Five homeless people)
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
On TV – at SAKS
(Lenny/Squeegeeman)
Honest living, honest living
Honest living, honest living
Honest living, honest living
(All five homeless people)
Can't you spare a dime or two
Here but for the grace of god go you
You'll be merry
I'll be merry
Tho merry ain't in my vocabulary
No sleighbells
No Santa Claus
No yule log
No tinsel
No holly
No hearth
No
(Soloist)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
(All five)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
No room at the Holiday Inn oh no
And it's beginning to snow
The stage suddenly explodes with life. The scene is at St. Mark's Place on Christmas Eve – an open air bazaar of colour, noise, and movement. Along with the company, Mark, Angel, and Collins enter.
(Vendors)
Hats, bats, shoes, booze
Mountain bikes, potpourri
Leather bags, girlie mags
Forty-fives, AZT
(Vendor #1)
No one's buying
Feel like crying
(All)
No room at the Holiday Inn, oh no
And it's beginning to snow
Lights fade up on one woman, who is showing off a collection
Of stolen coats to Collins and Angel.
(Vendor #2)
How about a fur
In perfect shape
Owned by an MBA from Uptown
I got a tweed
Broken in by a greedy
Broker who went broke
And then broke down
(Charles/Collins)
You don't have to do this
(Javier/Angel)
Hush your mouth, it's Christmas
(Charles/Collins)
I do not deserve you, Angel
Give – give
All you do
Is give
Give me some way to show
How you've touched me so
(Javier/Angel)
Wait – what's on the floor?
Let's see some more
No – no – no
Kiss me – it's beginning to snow (both then exit.)
Lights then focus on Mark and Roger on the right above.
(Arthur/Mark)
She said, "would you light my candle?"
And she put on a pout
And she wanted you
To take her out tonight?
(John/Roger)
Right
(Arthur/Mark)
She got you out!
(John/Roger)
She was more than okay
But I pushed her away
It was bad I got mad
And I had to get her out of my sight
(Arthur/Mark)
Wait, wait, wait you said she was sweet
(John/Roger)
Let's go eat – I'll just get fat
It's the one vice left when you're dead meat
Mimi then enters looking furtively for the Man.
There – that's her
(Arthur/Mark)
Maureen?
(John/Roger)
Mimi
(Arthur/Mark)
Whoa
(John/Roger)
I should go
(Arthur/Mark)
Hey – it's beginning to snow
The police officers enter, in full riot gear.
(Police Officers)
I'm dreaming of a white, right Christmas
Police officers then exit.
(Abigail/Mimi & Junkies)
Follow the man follow the man
With his pockets full of the jam
Follow the man follow the man
Help me out, Daddy
If you can
Got any D man?
(The Man)
I'm cool
(Abigail/Mimi & Junkies)
Got any C man?
(The Man)
I'm cool
(Abigail/Mimi & Junkies)
Got any X?
Any smack?
Any horse?
Any jugie boogie boy?
Any blow?
Roger then pulls Mimi aside.
(John/Roger) (comfortingly)
Hey
(Abigail/Mimi)
Hey
(John/Roger)
I just want to say
I'm sorry for the way
(Abigail/Mimi)
Forget it
(John/Roger)
I blew up
Can I make it up to you?
(Abigail/Mimi)
How?
(John/Roger)
Dinner party?
(Abigail/Mimi)
That'll do
(The Man)
Hey lover boy cutie pie
You steal my client you die
(John/Roger)
You didn't miss me – you won't miss her
You'll never lack for customers
Mimi tries to step in but Roger grabs her arm and calmly leads her offstage.
(Junkies)
I'm willin
I'm illin'
I gotta get my sickness
Gotta run, gotta ride
Gotta gun, gotta hide – gotta go
(The Man)
And it's beginning to snow
(Micah/Benny) (entering, talking on his cellular phone)
Wish me luck, Alison
The protest is on
(Coat Vendor)
L.L. Bean
Geoffrey Beene
Burburry Zip Out
Lining
(Junkies)
Got any C man?
Got any D man?
Got any B man?
Got any crack?
Got any X?
(Lenny/Squeegeeman)
Honest living-
(John/Roger)
Mark, this is Mimi
(Arthur/Mark & Abigail/Mimi)
Hi
(John/Roger)
She'll be dining with us
(Coat Vendor)
Here's a new arrival
(The Man)
That is an ounce
(Vendor)
Hats, dats, bats
(Charles/Collins)
That's my coat!
(Coat Vendor)
We give discounts
(Arthur/Mark)
I think we've met
(Javier/Angel)
Let's get a better one
(Charles/Collins)
It's a sham!
(Abigail/Mimi)
That's what he said
(The Man)
I said it's a gram!
(Charles/Collins)
But she's a thief!
(Javier/Angel)
But she brought us together
(Micah/Benny)
Which investor is coming
(Charles/Collins)
I'll take the leather
(Micah/Benny)
Your father? Damn!
(The following lyrics is sung simultaneously.)
(Homeless people & Vendors)
Christmas bells are swinging
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are singing
In my dreams – next year
Once you can donate you can go
Celebrate in Tuckahoe
You'll feel cheery
I'll feel cheery
Tho I don't really know that theory
No bathrobe
No stueben glass
No cappuccino makers
No pearls, no diamonds
No 'chestnuts roasting on an open fire'
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
No room at the Holiday Inn, oh no-
(Police Officers)
I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Jingle bells prison cells
Fa la la la Fa la la la
You have the right to remain
Silent night holy night
Fall on your knees oh night devine
You'll do some time
Fa la la la la
Fa la la la la
(Junkies)
Got any C man?
Got any D man?
Got any B man?
Got any X? Crack?
I'm willin 'I'm illin'
Gotta get my sickness off
C-D help me
Follow the man follow the man
Follow the man
Jugie boogie jugie boogie
Follow the man follow the man
Any crack any X any jugie boogie boy
Any crack any X any jugie boogie boy
Got any D man, got any C man
Got any crack any X- any jugie boogie boy?
(Coat Vendor)
Twenty-five
(Javier/Angel)
Fifteen
(Coat Vendor)
Twenty-five
(Javier/Angel)
Fifteen
(Coat Vendor)
No way
Twenty-four
(Javier/Angel)
Fifteen
(Coat Vendor)
Twenty-four
(Javier/Angel)
Fifteen
(Coat Vendor)
Not today
Twenty-three
(Javier/Angel)
Fifteen
(Coat Vendor)
Twenty-three
(Javier/Angel)
Fifteen
It's old
(Coat Vendor)
Twenty-two
(Javier/Angel)
Fifteen
(Coat Vendor)
Twenty-one
(Javier/Angel)
Fifteen
(Coat Vendor)
Seventeen
(Javier/Angel)
Fifteen
(Coat Vendor)
Fifteen
(Javier/Angel & Coat Vendor)
Sold!
(Arthur/Mark & John/Roger)
Let's
Go
To
The lot Maureen's performing
(Abigail/Mimi)
Who's Maureen?
(John/Roger)
His ex
(Arthur/Mark)
But I am over her
(Roger) (Mimi tries to take his hand)
Let's not hold hands yet
(Abigail/Mimi)
Is that a warning?
(All three) (Arthur/Mark, Abigail/Mimi, John/Roger)
He/you/I
Just
Need (s)
To take it slow
I should tell you I should tell you
I should tell you I should tell you
I should tell you I
(All)
And it's beginning to
And it's beginning to
And it's beginning to
Lights blackout and a blinding headlight comes through the door. As it reaches downstage, the lights come up and reveal Maureen.
(Mary/Maureen)
Joanne, which way to the stage?
(All)
Snow
(Blackout)