ROGER
What Happened to Benny?
What Happened to his Heart
And the Ideals he Once Pursued?
BENNY
And the Owner of that lot Next Door
Has the Right to do with it as he Pleases
ROGER
Happy Birthday, Jesus
BENNY (spoken)
The Rent
MARK
You’re wasting your time
ROGER (spoken)
We’re broke
MARK
And you Broke your Word-This is Absurd
BENNY
There is One Way you Won’t Have to Pay
ROGER
I Knew It
BENNY
Next Door
The Home of CyberArts
You see
And now that the Block is Rezoned
Our Dream can Become
A Reality
You’ll See Boys
You’ll See Boys
(spoken)
A State of the Art
Digital
Virtual
Interactive Studio
I’ll Forego your Rent
And on Paper Guarantee
That you can Stay here for Free
If You’ll Do Me One Small Favor
MARK (spoken)
What?
BENNY (spoken)
Convince Maureen
To Cancel her Protest
MARK (spoken)
Why not get an Injunction
Or Call the Cops?
BENNY
(spoken)
I did, and They’re on Stand By
But my Investors Would Rather
I Handle this Quietly
ROGER (spoken)
You can’t Quietly Wipe Out
An Entire Tent City
Then Watch “It’s Wonderful Life”
On T.V.
BENNY
You Wanna Produce Films
And Write Songs
You Need Somewhere to Do It
It’s What we Used to Dream About
Think Twice Before You Poo Poo It
You’ll See Boys
You’ll See Boys
You’ll See the Beauty of a Studio
That Let’s Us Do Our Work
And Get Paid
With Condos on the Top
Who’s Rent Keeps Open our Shop
Just Stop the Protest
And You’ll Have It Made
You’ll See
Or You’ll Pack