The Plan
Heh, yes this is for 'Prima Donna', but the plan is the important part)
(Next Morning)
Erik:
Come you must return,
Those damn fools who come to the Opera will be missing you
(Later, managers office)
Andre:
Her public needs her!
Firmin:
We need her too!
Meg:
Would you not rather have this precious little ballerina?
Managers-
Miss Giry, no,
we don't need you
Prima donna
Christine is our dear maid
Her devotee's
Are on their knee's to adore her
Andre:
She always brings in good money and praise
Firmin:
To think of how long we ignored her!
Managers:
Prima donna
Finance us once again!
Andre:
Think of her use...
Firmin:
To get the cues round the theater
Managers:
Can you deny us the triumph in store?
Leave our prima donna alone!
Raoul:
Did you speak of an Angel? (Suspiciously)
Meg:
My dear Vicomte
your wife has gone to him!
Managers:
Think of her public!
Meg:
You took your vows
But their's gown that
she wants to use
Giry:
(About Meg to Raoul)
She has heard the voice
of the Devil of Romance
Managers:
Those who hear her voice
Think she is an Angel
Meg:
Think of their cries of their
pleasures untold
Follow where the music leads you
Andre:
We get an opera
Firmin:
She gets her limelight
Meg:
Follow and I shall also lead you
Raoul:
Is she running off with the lunatic????
Angel or lover?
Managers:
Jealous dancers are a trial!
Meg:
Prima donna
your song shall soon up and die
Giry:
Heaven help you those who doubt!
Meg:
I'll dance again
And to unending ovation!
Raoul:
Orders warnings all over again!
Giry:
This rumor will invite damnation now...
Managers:
Flowers... Money lunatic demands and irregular occurrences!
Meg:
(pleased to see her plan working)
Think how she'll shine in her final encore!
Sing prima donna once more
Giry:
Oh fools, to believe her false warnings!
Raoul:
surely you don't mean...
Managers:
Surely they will make us in debt worse than ever!
Giry:
Think first, her demands need be rejected!
Raoul:
Should I see these demands rejected?
Meg:
If my threats and demands are rejected!
Managers:
Who'd believe our diva
unknowing to this thing!
A chorus girl whose obviously slept with the Phantom!
The ghost and the young soubrette
Entwined in evils duet
Although she may demur
She must be fickle and unsure!
Meg/Raoul:
Christine is unfaithful!
Managers:
She'd never get away
With all of this in a play
but if it's loudly sung
and in a foreign tongue
it's just the sort of fib
the audience loves to ad-lib!
In fact a perfect opera!
Raoul:
This game is over!
Giry:
This is a game you cannot hope to win!
Raoul:
And in the courthouse a new game will begin!
Giry:
For if is curse is on this opera
Managers:
Prima donna
this girl is at your feet
A nation waits
And yet she tells us to can you
Meg:
The things soon done to a prima donna!
Terrible jokes and injuries!
Horrible tricks and badgeries!
Still, the most slit throat shall reach the highest note
in search of the perfect opera!
Giry:
Then I fear the outcome
Raoul:
Christine leaves the Opera!
Meg moves to the front of the row!
Giry:
Should you dare to...
Meg:
And never again will she
All:
Light up the stage with her age old support
Managers/Giry:
The prima donna! Once more!
Raoul:
So, it is to be war between us!
Meg:
If these demands are not met, a disaster beyond any financial one will occur!
Managers/Giry:
(unintimidated)
Once more!