Misc Musicals – The Phantom Of The Opera - Prima Donna (Guitar)

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ANDRE: Your public needs you! FIRMIN: We need you, too! CARLOTTA: Would you not rather have your precious little ingenue? ANDRE/FIRMIN:
                             C 
Signora, no! The world wants you!
Prima donna, first lady of the stage!
                           Am          G
Your devotees are on their knees to im-plore you!
ANDRE:
Dm          G        F       Em            Am
Can you bow out when they're shouting your name?
FIRMIN:
F                 C/E   Bb7   G
Think of how they all a-dore you!
BOTH:
C 
Prima donna, enchant us once again!
ANDRE: Think of your muse FIRMIN:
           C7               F 
And of the queues round the theatre!
BOTH WITH PIANGI:
Dm         G     F   Em7         Am
Can you de-ny us the tri-umph in store?

      Dm    G7          C7  
Sing, prima donna, once more!
RAOUL:
C7                     F 
Chris-tine spoke of an angel...
CARLOTTA:
F                          
Prima donna, your so-ong shall live again
(ANDRE/FIRMIN:
F
Think of your public!)
CARLOTTA:
           F                  Dm         C     
You took a snub but there's a public who needs you!
[GIRY:
Dm      C                 
We have heard the voice of the angel]
(ANDRE/FIRMIN:
C                                         Gm
Those who hear your voice liken you to an angel!)
CARLOTTA:
Gm             C         Am7       Dm 
Think of their cry of un-dying sup-port!
(ANDRE:
           Bb              
We get our opera
FIRMIN:
             F/A  
She gets her limelight!)
CARLOTTA:
Bb               F/A        Eb7   C7
Follow where the lime-light leads you!
(ANDRE/FIRMIN:
C7                   F
Leading ladies are a trial!)
CARLOTTA:
F
Prima donna, your song shall never die!
(PIANGI:
F
When she sings we see heaven)
CARLOTTA:
              F7                      Bb
You'll sing a-gain, and to unending o-vation!
(RAOUL:
F7                Bb
Orders! Warnings! Lunatic demands!)
[ANDRE/FIRMIN:
F7                Bb                             Gm7                       
Tears... Oaths... Lunatic demands are regular oc-currences!]
CARLOTTA:
Gm               C        Bb   Am       Dm   
Think how you'll shine in that final en-core!

      Gm    C7          Fm  
Sing, prima donna, once more!
RAOUL:
Gm 
Surely, for her sake...
(ANDRE/FIRMIN:
                   Gm               C7 
Surely there'll be further scenes - worse than this!)
[RAOUL:
          Fm                      Bb  
...I must see these demands are rejected!]
ANDRE/FIRMIN:
Bb              
Who'd believe a diva happy to relieve a chorus girl,

                                  F
Who's gone and slept with her pat-ron?

Bb                                    
Raoul and his soubrette, entwined in love's duet!

   F7                       
Al-though he may demur, he must have been with her!
(CARLOTTA
   Bb    
O, fortunata! 

F7
Non ancor 

       Cm  
Abbandonata!)
ANDRE/FIRMIN:
      Cm                  F7
You'd never get away with all this in a play,

    Dm7                     Gm                  
But if it's loudly sung and in a foreign tongue,

     Eb                     Bb/D                Ab              F
It's just the sort of story audiences adore, in fact, a perfect opera!
GIRY/MEG:
                                  Bb
For (But) if his curse is on this opera...
COMPANY:
Bb
Prima donna, the world is at your feet!

                           Bb7         Eb
A nation waits, and how it hates to be cheated!
(song slows down)
Cm            F          Eb   Dm          Cm
Light up that stage with that age-old rap-port!
(Strum rapidly and VERY loudly)
      F         NC       
Sing, prima donna...
(COMPANY takes a HUGE gulp of air, watch out for Carlotta's very high D notes.)
     Bb   Edim B Edim NC   
ONCE MORE!
(Curtain closes) Bb Bb/D Bb/F... Intro to another song.