Prima Donna - mask, Andrew Lloyd Webber

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ANDRÉ

Your public needs you!

FIRMIN

We need you, too!

CARLOTTA

Would you not

rather have your

precious little

ingenue?

ANDRÉ/FIRMIN

Signora, no!

The world wants you!

ANDRÉ/FIRMIN

Prima donna,

first lady of the stage!

Your devotees

are on their knees

to implore you!

ANDRÉ

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!

ANDRÉ

Think of your muse…

FIRMIN

And of the queues

round the theatre!

BOTH

Can you deny us the triumph

in store?

Sing, prima donna,

your song shall live again!

ALL

Light up the stage

with that age-old

rapport!

Sing, prima donna,

once more!

PHANTOM

(spoken)

So, it is to be war between us!

If these

demands are not met, a disaster beyond

your imagination will occur!

ALL

Once more