Andrew Lloyd Webber Prima Donna

(Both)
The world wants you!
Prima donna,
first lady of the stage!
Your devotees
are on their knees
to implore you!

(Andre)
Can you bow out
when they're shouting
your name?

(Firmin)
Think of how they all
adore you!

(Both)
Prima donna,
enchant us once again!

(Andre)
Think of your muse...

(Firmin)
And of the queues
round the theatre!

(Both)
Can you deny us the triumph
in store?
Sing, prima donna,
once more!

(Raoul)
Christine spoke of an angel...

(Carlotta)
Prima donna,
your song shall live again!

(Andre/Firmin)ANDRÉ/FIRMIN
*Think of your public!

*CARLOTTA
*You took a snub,

*but there's a public
*who needs you!
*
*GIRY
*She has heard the voice
*of the angel of music...
*
*ANDRÉ/FIRMIN
*Those who hear your voice
*liken you to an angel!

*CARLOTTA
*Think of their cry
*of undying
*support!

*ANDRÉ
*We get our opera...

*FIRMIN
*She gets her limelight!
*
*CARLOTTA
*Follow where the limelight
*leads you!

*
*ANDRÉ/FIRMIN
*Leading ladies are a trial!
*
*CARLOTTA
*Prima donna,
*your song shall never die!
*
*MEG
*Voice of hell, or of heaven...?
*
*GIRY
*Heaven help you,
*those who doubt...
*
*CARLOTTA
*You'll sing again,
*and to an unending
*ovation!
*
*RAOUL
*Orders! Warnings!
*Lunatic demands!
*
*GIRY
*This miscasting
*will invite damnation...
*
*ANDRÉ/FIRMIN
*Tears...oaths...
*lunatic demands
*are regular occurrences!
*
*MEG
*Bliss or damnation?

*Which has claimed her...?
*
*CARLOTTA
*Think how you'll shine
*in that final
*encore!
*Sing, prima donna,
*once more!
*
*GIRY
*Oh fools,
*to have flouted his warnings!
*
*RAOUL
*Surely, for her sake...
*
*MEG
*Surely, he'll strike back...
*
*ANDRÉ/FIRMIN
*Surely, there'll be further scenes -

*worse than this!
*
*GIRY
*Think, before
*these demands are rejected!
*
*RAOUL
*...I must see
*these demands are rejected!
*
*MEG
*...if his threats
*and demands are rejected!
*
*ANDRÉ/FIRMIN
*Who'd believe a diva
*happy to relieve a
*chorus girl, who's gone
*and slept with the patron?
*Raoul and the soubrette,
*entwined in love's duet!
*Although he may demur,
*he must have been with her!
*
*MEG/RAOUL
*Christine must be protected!
*
*CARLOTTA
*O, fortunata!
*Non ancor

*abbandonata!
*
*ANDRÉ/FIRMIN
*You'd never get away
*with all this in a play,
*but if it's loudly sung
*and in a foreign tongue,
*it's just the sort of story
*audiences adore, in
*fact a perfect
*opera!
*
*RAOUL
*His game is over!
*
*GIRY
*This is a game
*you cannot hope to win!
*
*RAOUL
*And in Box Five
*a new game will begin...
*
*GIRY
*For, if his curse
*is on this opera...
*
*MEG
*But if his curse
is on this opera...

(Andre/Firmin)
Prima donna,
the world is at your feet!
A nation waits,
and how it hates
to be cheated!

(ALL)
Light up the stage
with that age-old
rapport!
Sing, prima donna,
once more!