Notes?/Prima Donna-Andrew Lloyd Webber

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[00:00.97]Notes?/Prima Donna - Andrew Lloyd Webber
[00:02.40]Composed by：Andrew Lloyd Webber/Charles Hart/Richard Stilgoe
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[00:08.10]Mystery after gala night it says
[00:10.57]Mystery of sopranos flight
[00:13.11]Mystified baffled Sûreté say
[00:15.50]We are mystified
[00:16.81]We suspect foul play
[00:18.46]Bad news on soprano scene
[00:20.91]First Carlotta now Christine
[00:23.35]Still at least the seats get sold
[00:26.34]Gossip's worth its weight in gold
[00:31.21]
[00:31.84]What a way to run a business
[00:33.80]
[00:34.61]Spare me these unending trials
[00:36.60]
[00:37.30]Half your cast disappears
[00:38.57]But the crowd still cheers
[00:40.44]Opera
[00:41.57]To hell with Gluck and Handel
[00:42.81]It's a scandal that'll pack 'em in the aisles
[00:44.90]Damnable
[00:46.14]Will they all walk out
[00:47.11]This is damnable
[00:48.78]André please don't shout
[00:50.20]It's publicity and the take is vast
[00:52.83]Free publicity
[00:54.03]But we have no cast
[00:55.62]But André have you seen the queue
[00:58.87]Oh it seems you've got one too
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[01:03.40]"Dear André what a charming gala
[01:06.35]
[01:06.99]Christine enjoyed a great success
[01:08.83]
[01:09.62]We were hardly bereft when Carlotta left
[01:12.84]Otherwise the chorus was entrancing
[01:15.53]But the dancing was a lamentable mess"
[01:17.44]"Dear Firmin just a brief reminder
[01:19.73]
[01:20.38]My salary has not been paid
[01:22.62]
[01:23.16]Send it care of the Ghost
[01:24.54]By return of post
[01:26.36]P.T.O. no one likes a debtor
[01:28.84]So it's better if my orders are obeyed"
[01:31.07]
[01:32.41]Who would have the gall to send this
[01:34.30]
[01:35.04]Someone with a puerile brain
[01:37.11]
[01:37.75]These are both signed O.G.
[01:39.02]Who the hell is he
[01:40.93]Opera Ghost
[01:42.01]It's really not amusing
[01:43.29]He's abusing our position
[01:44.74]In addition he wants money
[01:46.14]He's a funny sort of spectre
[01:47.46]To expect a large retainer
[01:48.97]Nothing plainer
[01:49.60]He is clearly quite insane
[01:50.87]Where is she
[01:51.65]You mean Carlotta
[01:52.54]I mean Miss Daaé
[01:53.27]Where is she
[01:54.58]Well how should we know
[01:55.53]I want an answer
[01:56.42]I take it that you sent me this note
[01:58.10]What all this nonsense
[01:59.10]Of course not
[02:00.31]Don't look at us
[02:01.10]She's not with you then
[02:02.02]Of course not
[02:03.17]We're in the dark
[02:04.06]Monsieur don't argue
[02:05.16]Isn't this the letter you wrote
[02:07.20]And what is is that we're meant to have wrote
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[02:10.08]Written
[02:10.73]"Do not fear for Miss Daaé
[02:12.94]The Angel of Music has her under his wing
[02:16.60]
[02:17.35]Make no attempt to see her again"
[02:21.14]
[02:22.00]If you didn't write it who did
[02:23.74]
[02:24.34]Where is he
[02:25.64]Ah welcome back
[02:26.25]Your precious patron
[02:27.18]Where is he
[02:28.53]What is it now
[02:29.24]I have your letter
[02:30.26]A letter which I rather resent
[02:31.98]And did you send it
[02:32.92]Of course not
[02:34.28]As if he would
[02:34.97]You didn't send it
[02:35.94]Of course not
[02:37.20]What's going on
[02:37.90]You dare to tell me
[02:39.04]That this is not the letter you sent
[02:41.14]And what is it that I'm meant to have sent
[02:43.14]
[02:44.09]"Your days at the Opéra Populaire are numbered
[02:47.53]
[02:48.32]Christine Daaé will be singing on your behalf tonight
[02:51.23]
[02:51.99]Be prepared for a great misfortune
[02:54.31]
[02:54.94]Should you attempt to take her place"
[02:58.17]
[02:59.54]Far too many notes for my taste
[03:02.16]
[03:02.79]And most of them about Christine
[03:04.71]
[03:05.50]All we've heard since we came
[03:06.75]Is Miss Daaé's name
[03:08.78]
[03:10.31]Miss Daaé has returned
[03:11.83]
[03:12.43]I trust her midnight oil
[03:13.75]Is well and truly burned
[03:15.40]Where precisely is she now
[03:17.15]I thought it best that she went home
[03:18.88]She needed rest
[03:19.98]
[03:20.81]May I see her
[03:22.18]No Monsieur she will see no one
[03:24.25]Will she sing
[03:25.03]Will she sing
[03:25.79]
[03:26.43]Here I have a note
[03:27.85]Let me see it
[03:28.75]Please
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[03:31.44]"Gentlemen
[03:32.24]I have now sent you several notes of the most amiable nature
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[03:38.54]Detailing how my theatre is to be run
[03:41.45]
[03:42.16]You have not followed my instructions
[03:44.82]
[03:45.47]I shall give you one last chance
[03:49.40]
[03:51.13]Christine Daaé has returned to you
[03:55.64]
[03:56.24]And I am anxious her career should progress
[04:02.45]
[04:03.56]In the new production of Il Muto
[04:08.13]You will therefore cast Carlotta as the pageboy
[04:14.72]
[04:15.53]And put Miss Daaé in the role of Countess
[04:22.07]
[04:23.26]The role which Miss Daaé plays calls for charm and appeal
[04:30.71]
[04:31.96]The role of the pageboy is silent which makes
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[04:37.90]My casting in a word ideal
[04:43.52]
[04:45.74]I shall watch the performance from my normal seat in box 5
[04:49.93]
[04:50.79]Which will be kept empty for me
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[04:53.99]Should these commands be ignored
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[04:56.92]A disaster beyond your imagination will occur
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[05:01.63]I remain gentlemen your obedient servant O.G.
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[05:08.55]Christine
[05:09.91]Whatever next
[05:10.41]It's all a ploy to help Christine
[05:12.80]This is insane
[05:13.55]I know who sent this
[05:14.52]The Viscomte her lover
[05:15.90]Indeed can you believe this
[05:17.15]Signora
[05:18.18]O traditori
[05:18.73]This is a joke
[05:19.44]This changes nothing
[05:20.05]O mentitori
[05:20.38]Signora
[05:21.47]You are our star
[05:22.93]And always will be
[05:23.92]Signora
[05:25.19]The man is mad
[05:26.04]We don't take orders
[05:26.88]Miss Daaé will be playing the pageboy the silent role
[05:30.74]Carlotta will be playing the lead
[05:33.48]It's useless trying to appease me
[05:37.75]You're only saying this to please me
[05:41.75]Signor è vero
[05:43.34]Non non non voglio udire
[05:45.55]Lasciatemi morire
[05:47.73]O padre mio
[05:50.17]Dio
[05:51.40]Who scorn his word beware to those
[05:53.24]You have reviled me
[05:54.65]The angel sees the angel knows
[05:56.01]Why did Christine fly from my arms
[05:57.85]You have rebuked me
[05:59.08]Signora pardon us
[06:00.58]You have replaced me
[06:02.86]Please Signora we beseech you
[06:04.71]This hour shall see your darkest fears
[06:06.48]I must see her
[06:07.06]Abbandonata
[06:07.22]Deseredata
[06:07.37]O sventurata
[06:07.67]The angel knows the angel hears
[06:09.60]Where did she go
[06:10.25]Abbandonata
[06:12.53]Signora sing for us
[06:13.68]
[06:14.30]Disgraziata
[06:14.46]Don't be a martyr
[06:16.47]
[06:17.14]What new surprises lie in store
[06:22.15]
[06:30.67]Your public needs you
[06:33.59]We need you too
[06:35.93]Wouldn't you not rather have your precious little ingénue
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[06:41.24]Signora no the world wants you
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[06:50.27]Prima Donna first lady of the stage
[06:56.80]Your devotees are on their knees to implore you
[07:03.40]
[07:04.67]Can you bow out when they're shouting your name
[07:11.07]
[07:11.80]Think of how they all adore you
[07:18.25]
[07:18.91]Prima donna enchant us once again
[07:25.11]Think of your muse
[07:26.75]And of your queues 'round the theatre
[07:31.63]
[07:32.60]Can you deny us the triumph in store
[07:38.95]Sing prima donna once more
[07:43.02]Christine spoke of an angel
[07:47.22]Prima Donna your song shall live again
[07:52.85]
[07:53.41]Think of your public
[07:54.30]You took a snub but there's a public who needs you
[07:57.74]She has heard the voice of the Angel of Music
[08:00.51]Those who hear you liken you to an angel
[08:02.08]Think of the cry of undying support
[08:05.58]Is this her angel of music
[08:07.43]We get our Opera
[08:08.99]She gets her limelight
[08:09.74]Follow where the limelight leads you
[08:12.23]Angel or madman
[08:13.61]Leading ladies are a trial
[08:16.01]Prima donna your song shall never die
[08:20.93]Heaven help you those who doubt
[08:22.31]This miscasting will invite damnation
[08:23.05]You'll sing again and to unending ovation
[08:24.07]Orders warnings Lunatic demands
[08:24.67]Tears Oaths Lunatic demands are regular occurrences
[08:30.89]Think how you'll shine in that final encore
[08:33.11]Sing Prima Donna once more
[08:33.92]Surely for her sake
[08:35.77]Surely there'll be further scenes
[08:37.41]
[08:37.92]Worse than this
[08:38.90]Oh fools to have flouted his warnings
[08:39.97]I must see these demands are rejected
[08:42.14]Think before these demands are rejected
[08:43.89]Who'd believe a diva happy to relieve a chorus girl
[08:47.42]Whose gone and slept with the patron
[08:50.06]Raoul and the soubrette entwined in love's duet
[08:53.39]Although he may demur he must have been with her
[08:56.42]Christine must be protected
[08:57.02]O fortunata non ancor abbandonata
[08:57.75]You'd never get away with all this in a play
[09:00.20]But if it's loudly sung and in a foreign tongue
[09:03.08]This is a game you cannot hope to win
[09:04.31]It's just the sort of story
[09:05.48]And in Box Five a new game will begin
[09:06.75]Audiences adore in fact a perfect opera
[09:08.10]But if his curse is on this opera
[09:11.26]Prima Donna the world is at your feet
[09:16.81]A nation waits and how it hates to be cheated
[09:17.14]Then I fear the outcome
[09:17.31]The stress that falls upon a famous prima donna
[09:17.60]Terrible diseases coughs and colds and sneezes
[09:18.22]Still the dryest throat will reach the highest note
[09:21.60]In search of perfect opera
[09:22.42]Christine plays the Pageboy
[09:23.00]Should you dare to
[09:23.60]Carlotta plays the Countess
[09:24.60]
[09:25.17]Light up the stage with that age-old rapport
[09:32.91]Sing prima donna once more
[09:48.89]
[09:50.11]So it is to be war between us
[09:53.66]
[09:54.51]If these demands are not met
[09:56.81]
[09:57.57]A disaster beyond your imagination will occur
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[10:02.21]Once more
[10:10.03]
[10:18.93]Gentlemen if you would care to take your seats
[10:21.52]
[10:22.49]I shall be sitting in Box Five
[10:23.99]
[10:25.33]Do you really think that's wise monsieur
[10:27.62]My dear André
[10:28.29]
[10:29.16]There would appear to be no seats available other than Box Five
[10:31.86]
[10:46.25]Serafimo away with this pretence
[10:49.34]
[10:50.62]You cannot speak but kiss me in my husband's absence