After the subway ride, Mark and Roger go off to help Joanne at the lot where the protest will take place. On the way back to the apartments, the four friends talk about leaving New York and going out to Santa Fe and opening a restaurant ("Santa Fe"). At the meeting, the people began to question, "Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?" ("Will I?") During this, Roger joins the group, much to Angel's, Collins', and Mark's joy. The next day, Mark asks Roger if he wants to go to the Support group meeting with him, but Roger declines. She barges into Roger's apartment, where he gets angry at her ("Another Day"). Forward to a night club, with Mimi performing a song and dance routine, singing of her desire to go out and have a good time before her life ends ("Out Tonight"). A man in the group talks about how he finds it hard to accept what they teach in the group, "but I try to open up to what I don't know, because reason says I should have died 3 years ago" ("Life Support"). While there, Mark asks permission from the Support group members to film them for his new documentary. He then proceeds to the Life Support Meeting. They talk about Maureen's "hobby" of cheating ("Tango: Maureen"). Mark goes to help Maureen, only to meet Joanne Jefferson, Maureen's new lover. Roger declines but Mark accepts, telling them he will be there after he goes to help Maureen, who had called and asked for help with a technical problem. Angel invites them to join him and Collins at a meeting at a local community center. The next morning, Roger and Mark meet Angel, who performs a song-and-dance number for them ("Today 4 U"). Mimi, a night club dancer addicted to heroin, enters Roger's apartment and flirts with him ("Light My Candle"). Later that night, Roger mourns the loss of his girlfriend April, who committed suicide after learning she had HIV, and sings of his desire to write one lasting song before his own death from HIV ("One Song Glory"). We learn that these two characters are romantically interested in each other. Angel Dumott Schunard, who is an AIDS-positive drag queen drummer, meets Collins, who is also AIDS-positive, in the alley. The protest is to take place at Maureen's performance space which Benny is planning to to turn into a cyber-cafe ("You'll See"). Benny, the landlord and former roommate of Mark and Collins, who has married into a wealthy family, offers to give Mark and Roger free rent again if they can convince Maureen (Mark's ex-girlfriend) to stop her protest. Collins, a former roommate of Mark's and friend to both Mark and Roger, returns from out of town and is attacked by three men and left for dead in an alley ("Rent"). After an introduction with the cast singing "Seasons of Love," the film opens with apartment tenants (including two friends and roommates, Mark and Roger) expressing their anger with suddenly being asked to pay rent which had previously been waived by the landlord.
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