Andrew Lloyd Webber - Prima Donna (Film Version) lyrics

[ANDRE] Your public needs you [FIRMIN] We need you too [CARLOTTA] Wouldn't you rather have your precious little ingénue? [ANDRE & FIRMIN] Signora, no! 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 [ANDRE & FIRMIN] Prima Donna, enchant us once again [ANDRE] Think of your muse [FIRMIN] And of your queues 'round the theatre! [ANDRE & FIRMIN] Can you deny us the triumph in store? [ANDRE, FIRMIN & PIANGI] Sing, Prima Donna, once more Think of your public Those who hear you liken you to an angel [ANDRE] We get her Opera [ANDRE & FIRMIN] Leading ladies are a trial Tears... Oaths... Lunatic demands are regular occurrences Surely there'll be further scenes— Worse than this! [CARLOTTA] Prima Donna Your song shall live again You took a snub But there's a public who needs you Think of the cry of undying support Follow ​where the ​limelight ​leads you Prima Donna Your song shall never die You'll sing again And to unending ovation Think how you'll shine in that final encore Sing Prima Donna once more [RAOUL] Christine spoke of an angel [MME GIRY] She has heard the voice of the Angel of Music [FIRMIN] She gets her limelight [PIANGI] You'll sing to me sweet heaven? [RAOUL] Orders, warnings Lunatic! I must see these demands are rejected! [ANDRE & FIRMIN] Who'd believe a diva Happy to relieve a Chorus girl whose 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! 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! [CARLOTTA] O! [?] Fortunata! Non ancor Abbandonata [MEG & CHRISTINE] For if his curse Is on this Opera... [ALL] Prima Donna the world is at your feet A nation waits, and how it hates to be cheated! Light up the stage with that age-old rapport Sing Prima Donna Once more!