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ANDRE
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Your public needs you!
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FIRMIN
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We need you, too!
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CARLOTTA (unassuaged)
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Would you not
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rather have your
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precious little
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ingenue?
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ANDRE/FIRMIN
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Signora, no!
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the world wants you!
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(The MANAGERS adopt their most persuasive attitudes)
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ANDRE/FIRMIN
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Prima donna
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first lady of the stage!
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Your devotees
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are on their knees
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to implore you !
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ANDRE
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Can you bow out
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when they're shouting
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your name?
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FIRMIN
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Think of how they all
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adore you!
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BOTH
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Prima donna,
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enchant us once again!
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ANDRE
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Think of your muse . . .
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FIRMIN
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And of the queues
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round the theatre!
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BOTH
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Can you deny us the triumph
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in store?
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Sing, prima donna, once more!
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(CARLOTTA registers her acceptance as the
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MANAGERS continue to cajole and the OTHERS reflect
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variously on the situation)
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RAOUL
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Christine spoke of an angel . . .
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CARLOTTA (to herself, in triumph)
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Prima donna
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your song shall live again!
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ANDRE/FIRMIN (to CARLOTTA)
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Think of your public!
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CARLOTTA
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You took a snub
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but there's a public
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who needs you!
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GIRY (referring to CHRISTINE)
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She has heard the voice
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of the angel of music . . .
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ANDRE/FIRMIN (to CARLOTTA)
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Those who hear your voice
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liken you to an angel!
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CARLOTTA
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Think of their cry
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of undying
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support !
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RAOUL
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Is this her angel of music . . .?
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ANDRE (to FIRMlN)
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We get our opera . . .
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FIRMIN (to ANDRE)
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She gets her limelight!
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CARLOTTA
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Follow where the limelight
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leads you!
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MEG
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Is this ghost
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an angel or a madman . . .?
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RAOUL
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Angel or madman . . .?
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ANDRE/FIRMIN (aside)
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Leading ladies are a trial!
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GIRY
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Heaven help you,
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those who doubt . . .
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CARLOTTA
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You'll sing again,
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and to unending
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ovation!
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RAOUL
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Orders! Warnings!
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Lunatic demands!
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GIRY
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This miscasting
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will invite damnation . . .
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ANDRE/FIRMIN
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Tears . . . oaths . . .
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Iunatic demands
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are regular occurrences!
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MEG
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Bliss or damnation?
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Which has claimed her . . .?
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CARLOTTA
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Think how you'll shine
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in that final encore!
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Sing, prima donna,
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once more!
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GIRY
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Oh fools, to have flouted his warnings!
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RAOUL
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Surely, for her sake . . .
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MEG
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Surely he'll strike back . . .
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ANDRE/FIRMIN
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Surely there'll be further scenes -
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worse than this!
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GIRY
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Think, before
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these demands are rejected!
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RAOUL
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. . .I must see
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these demands are rejected!
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MEG
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. . . if his threats
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and demands are rejected!
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ANDRE/FIRMIN
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Who'd believe a diva
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happy to relieve a chorus girl,
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who's gone and slept with the patron?
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Raoul and the soubrette,
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entwined in love's duet!
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Although he may demur,
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he must have been with her!
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MEG/RAOUL
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Christine must be protected!
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CARLOTTA
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O, fortunata!
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Non ancor
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abbandonata!
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ANDRE/FIRMIN
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You'd never get away
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with all this in a play,
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but if it's loudly sung
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and in a foreign tongue
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it's just the sort of story
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audiences adore,
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in fact a perfect opera!
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RAOUL
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His game is over!
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GIRY
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This is a game
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you cannot hope to win!
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RAOUL
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And in Box Five
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a new game will begin . . .
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GIRY
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For, if his curse is on this opera . . .
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MEG
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But if his curse is on this opera . . .
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ANDRE/FIRMIN
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Prima donna
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the world is at your feet!
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A nation waits,
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and how it hates
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to be cheated!
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CARLOTTA
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The stress that falls upon a
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famous prima donna!
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Terrible diseases,
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coughs and colds and sneezes!
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Still, the dryest throat
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will reach the highest note,
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in search of perfect
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opera!
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MEG/GIRY
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. . . then I fear the outcome . . .
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RAOUL
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Christine plays the Pageboy,
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Carlotta plays the Countess . . .
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GIRY
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. . . should you dare to . .
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MEG
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. . . when you once again . . .
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ALL
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Light up the stage
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with that age old
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rapport!
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Sing, prima donna,
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once more!
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PHANTOM'S VOICE
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So, it is to be war between us! If these demands are not
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met, a disaster beyond your imagination will occur!
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ALL
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Once more!
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - PRIMADONNA [Of...
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