Did you swoon when she walked through the door?
The Tango Maureen is Mark and Joann lamenting the fickle nature of Maureen, Mark's ex and Joann's current girlfriend. It's set to a wonderful tango rhythm. First opening on Broadway in 1996 (and later made into a movie) Rent was one of the most popular musicals of the 1990s and still draws crowds.
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Based on the opera 'La Boheme' Rent is the story of young artists living in New York in the early 90s. Dealing with relationships, AIDs, and trying to survive in the city. It's one of the most amazing Broadway musicals in recent history.
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Rent is a rock opera, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of the Bohemian East Village, under the shadow of AIDS.
Rent, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize, among other awards, was one of the first Broadway musicals to feature homosexual and bisexual characters. In addition, its cast was unusually ethnically diverse. Rent brought controversial topics to a traditi...
Tango Maureen Lyrics
Mark
And so into the abyss...The lot. Where a small stage is
partially set up.
Joann
[playing with some wires]
"Line in"...
I went to Harvard for this?
Mark
Close on Mark's nose dive.
Joann
"Line out"...
Mark
Will he get out of here alive...?
Joann
Mark?
Mark
Hi.
Joann
I told her not to call you
Mark
That's Maureen
But can I help since I'm here
Joann
I hired an engineer ...
Mark
Great!
Well, nice to have met you
Joann
Wait!
She's three hours late
The samples won't delay
But the cable --
Mark
There's another way
Say something -- anything
Joann
Test -- one, two three --
Mark
Anything but that
Joann
This is weird
Mark
It's weird
Joann
Very weird
Mark
Fuckin' weird
Joann
I'm so mad
That I don't know what to do
Fighting with microphones
Freezing down to my bones
And to top it all off
I'm with you
Mark
Feel like going insane?
Got a fire in your brain?
And you're thinking of drinking gasoline?
Joann
As a matter of fact --
Mark
Honey, I know this act
It's called the 'Tango Maureen'
The Tango Maureen
It's a dark, dizzy merry-go-round
As she keeps you dangling
Joann
You're wrong
Mark
Your heart she is mangling
Joann
It's different with me
Mark
And you toss and you turn
'Cause her cold eyes can burn
Yet you yearn and you churn and rebound
Joann
I think I know what you mean
Both
The Tango Maureen
Mark
Has she ever pouted her lips
And called you 'Pookie'
Joann
Never
Mark
Have you ever doubted a kiss or two?
Joann
This is spooky
Did you swoon when she walked through the door?
Mark
Every time -- so be cautious
Joann
Did she moon over other boys --?
Mark
More than moon --
Joann
I'm getting nauseous
[They begin to dance, with MARK leading.]
Mark
Where'd you learn to tango?
Joann
With the French Ambassador's daughter in her dorm
room at Miss Porter's. And you?
Mark
With Nanette Himmelfarb. The Rabbi's daughter at the
Scarsdale Jewish Community Center.
[They switch, and JOANNE leads.]
It's hard to do this backwards.
Joann
You should try it in heels!
She cheated
Mark
She cheated
Joann
Maureen cheated
Mark
Fuckin' cheated
Joann
I'm defeated
I should give up right now
Mark
Gotta look on the bright side
With all of your might
Joann
I'd fall for her still anyhow
Both
When you're dancing her dance
You don't stand a chance
Her grip of romance
Make you fall
Mark
So you think, 'Might as well'
Joann
"Dance a tango to hell"
Both
'At least I'll have tangoed at all'
The Tango Maureen
Gotta dance till your diva is through
You pretend to believe her
Cause in the end -- you can't leave her
But the end it will come
Still you have to play dumb
Till you're glum and you bum
And turn blue
Mark
Why do we love when she's mean?
Joann
And she can be so obscene
Mark
Try the mike
Joann
My Maureen (reverb: een, een, een...)
Mark
Patched
Joann
Thanks
Mark
You know -- I feel great now!
Joann
I feel lousy
[The pay phone rings. MARK hands it to JOANNE.]
Honey, we're... [pause] Pookie?!
You never call me Pookie...
Forget it, we're patched.
[She hangs up, looks at MARK.]
Both
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