Happy New Year B – Rent Cast (from “Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” soundtrack)

[MAUREEN:]
I think we need an agent!

[MARK:]
We?

[JOANNE:]
That’s selling out

[MARK:]
But it’s nice to dream!

[MAUREEN:]
Yeah! It’s network TV
And it’s all thanks to me!

[MARK:]
Somehow I think I smell a whiff of a scheme!

[JOANNE:]
Me too

[MAUREEN:]
We can plan another protest

[JOANNE:]
We?

[MAUREEN:]
This time you can shoot from the start
You’ll direct, starring me!

[MARK, MAUREEN, JOANNE:]
5, 4, 3
Open sesame! Happy new year!
Happy new year!
Happy new…

[BENNY:]
I see that you’ve beaten me
To the punch

[MARK:]
How did you know we’d be here?

[BENNY:]
I had a hunch

[MARK:]
You’re not mad?

[BENNY:]
I’m here to end this war
It’s a shame you went and destroyed the door

[MIMI:]
Why all of a sudden the big about face?

[BENNY:]
The credit is yours
You made a good case

[ROGER:]
What case?

[BENNY:]
Mimi came to see me
And she had much to say

[MIMI:]
That’s not how you put it
At all yesterday!

[BENNY:]
I couldn’t stop thinking
About the whole mess!
Mark you’ll want to get this on film

[MARK:]
I guess

[BENNY:]
I regret the unlucky circumstances
Of the last seven days

[ROGER:]
Circumstance?
You padlocked our door!

[BENNY:]
And it’s a great pleasure on behalf of cyber arts
That I hand you this key

[ANGEL:]
Golf claps

[MARK:]
I had no juice in my battery

[BENNY:]
Reshoot!

[ROGER:]
Oh I see this is a photo opportunity

[MAUREEN:]
The benevolent god
Ushers the poor artists back to their flat
Were you planning on taking
Down the barbed wire from the lot too?

[ROGER:]
Anything but that

[BENNY:]
Clearing the lot
Was a safety concern
We break ground this month
But you can return

[MAUREEN:]
That’s why you’re here
With people you hate
Instead of with Muffy
At Muffy’s estate

[BENNY:]
I honestly rather’d be with you tonight than in West Port

[ROGER:]
Spare us old sport, the sound bite

[BENNY:]
Mimi, since you were so seductive

[MIMI:]
You came onto me!

[BENNY:]
Persuade him not to be so counterproductive

[ROGER:]
Liar!

[BENNY:]
Why not tell them what you wore to my place?

[MIMI:]
I was on my way to work

[BENNY:]
Black leather and lace
My desk was a mess
I think I’m still sore

[MIMI:]
Cause I kicked him and told him I wasn’t his whore

[BENNY:]
Does your boyfriend know who your last boyfriend was?

[ROGER:]
I’m not her boyfriend, I don’t care what she does!

[ANGEL:]
People, is this any way to start a new year, have compassion
Benny just lost his cat

[BENNY:]
My dog, but I appreciate that

[ANGEL:]
My cat had a fall, and I went through hell

[BENNY:]
It’s like losing a… How did you know that she fell?

[COLLINS:]
Champagne?

[BENNY:]
Don’t mind if I do. To dogs…

[ALL BUT BENNY:]
No, Benny, to you!

[ANGEL:]
Let’s make a resolution

[MIMI:]
I’ll drink to that

[COLLINS:]
Let’s always stay friends

[JOANNE:]
Though we may have our disputes

[MAUREEN:]
This family tree’s got deep roots

[MARK:]
Friendship is thicker than blood

[ROGER:]
That depends

[MIMI:]
Depends on trust

[ROGER:]
Depends on true devotion

[JOANNE:]
Depends on love

[MARK:]
Depends on not denying emotion!

[ROGER:]
Perhaps

[ALL:]
It’s gonna be a happy new year!

[ROGER:]
I guess

[ALL:]
It’s gonna be a happy new year!

[ROGER:]
You’re right

[ANGEL:]
It’s gonna be a happy new year!

[ROGER & MIMI:]
I’m sorry

[ROGER:]
Coming

[MIMI:]
In a minute. I’m fine. Go

[THE MAN:]
Well, well, well. What have we here?
It’s gonna be a happy new year. There, there…