1. A CINEMA IN BUENOS AIRES, 26 JULY 1952 



(An audience is watching a movie. Suddenly the film stops. The people in the cinema begin to protest but are silenced by an announcement) 







THE VOICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE PRESS 



It is my sad duty to inform you that Eva Peron, spiritual leader of the nation, entered immortality at 8.25 this evening. 







2. REQUIEM FOR EVITA 



(EVA's funeral. CHE is the only non-participant. He moves through the mourners, apparently unseen.)







CROWD



Requiem aeternum 



dona Evita 



Requiem Evita 



Evita 



Evita 







3. OH WHAT A CIRCUS 







CHE 



Oh what a circus! 



Oh what a show! 



Argentina has gone to town 



Over the death of an actress called Eva Peron 



We've all gone crazy 



Mourning all day and mourning all night 



Falling over ourselves to get all 



Of the misery right 



Oh what an exit! That's how to go! 



When they're ringing your curtain down 



Demand to be buried like Eva Peron 



It's quite a sunset 



And good for the country in a roundabout way 



We've made the front page of all the world's papers today 



But who is this Santa Evita?



Why all this howling hysterical sorrow? 



What kind of goddess has lived among us? 



How will we ever get by without her? 



She had her moments--she had some style 



The best show in town was the crowd 



Outside the Casa Rosada crying, "Eva Peron" 



But that's all gone now 



As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears 



We're all going to see and how she did nothing for years! 







CROWD



Salve regina mater misericordiae 



Vita dulcedo et spes nostra 



Salve salve regina 



Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva



Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes 



O clemens o pia 







CHE



You let down your people Evita 



You were supposed to have been immortal 



That's all they wanted 



Not much to ask for 



But in the end you could not deliver 



Sing you fools! But you got it wrong 



Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long 



Your queen is dead, your king is through 



She's not coming back to you 



Show business kept us all alive 



Since 17 October 1945 



But the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin 



That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in 



Instead of government we had a stage 



Instead of ideas a prima donna's rage 



Instead of help we were given a crowd 



She didn't say much but she said it loud 



Sing you fools? But you got it wrong 



Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long 



Your queen is dead, your king is through 



She's not coming back to you 







CROWD 



Salve regina mater misericordiae 



Vita dulcedo et spes nostra 



Salve salve regina Peron 



Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva 



Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes 



O clemens o pia 







EVA 



Don't cry for me Argentina



For I am ordinary, unimportant 



And undeserving of such attention 



Unless we all are--I think we all are 



So share my glory, so share my coffin 



So share my glory, so share my coffin 







CHE 



It's our funeral too 







4. ON THIS NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS (Flashback to 1934 and to a nightclub in Junin, EVA's home town. EVA DUARTE is fifteen. The cabaret is nearly over. MAGALDI is singing with great gusto.) 







CHE



Now Eva Peron had every disadvantage you need if 



You're going to succeed. No money, no class, no father, 



No bright lights--there was nowhere she'd been at the age Of fifteen, as this tango singer found out. 



Agustin Magaldi--who has the distinction of being the First man to be of use to Eva Duarte. 







MAGALDI 



On this night of a thousand stars 



Let me take you to heaven's door 



Where the music of love's guitars 



Plays for evermore! 



In the glow of those twinkling lights 



We shall love through eternity 



On this night in a million nights 



Fly away with me! 



I never dreamed that a kiss could be as sweet as this 



--now I know that it can 



I used to wander alone without a love of my own



I was a desperate man 



But all my grief disappeared and all the sorrow I feared 



Wasn't there anymore 



On that magical day when you first came my way 



Mi Amor!



On this night... On this night... On this night of a thousand stars 



Let me take you to heaven's door 



Where the music of love's guitars



Plays for evermore! 







5.EVA AND MAGALDI / EVA BEWARE OF THE CITY (MAGALDI joins EVA and her family--mother, 3 sisters, brother--at their table. CHE is loitering nearby at the bar.) 







EVA 



To think that a man, as famous as you are, could love a Poor little nothing like me!



I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple! 







EVA and FAMILY 



She wants to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple! 







CHE



Just listen to that! They're onto you Magaldi! I'd get out



While you can 







EVA



It's happened at last--I'm starting to get started--I'm moving out with my man 







MAGALDI 



Now Eva don't get carried away- 







EVA



Monotony past--suburbia departed--who could ever be Fond of the back of beyond? 







MAGALDI 



Don't hear words that I didn't say 







EVA's FAMILY



What's that? You'd desert the girl you love? 







MAGALDI



The girl I love? What are you talking about? 







EVA's FAMILY



She really brightened up your out of town engagement,



She gave you all she had--she wasn't in your contract 



--you must be quite relieved that no-one's told the papers 



--so far- 







EVA



I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple! 



Would I have done what I did if I hadn't thought, if I Hadn't known, we would stay together? 







CHE



Seems to me there's no point in resisting, she's made up her mind, you've no choice. 



Why don't you be the man who discovered her? 



You'll never be remembered for your voice. 







MAGALDI



The city can be paradise for those who have the cash, the class and the connections--what you need to make a splash. 



The likes of you get swept up in the morning with the trash--if you were rich or middle class- 







EVA 



Screw the middle classes! I will never accept them!



My father's Other family were middle class and we were kept out of Sight, hidden from view, at his funeral! 







DESK CLERK



Do all your one night stands give you this trouble? 







MAGALDI 



Eva, beware of the city It's hungry and cold, can't be controlled, it is mad 



Those who are fools are swallowed up whole 



And those who are not become 



What they should not become



Changed--in short they go bad 







EVA 



Bad is good for me--I'm bored, so clean and so ignored 



I've only been predictable--respectable! 



Birds fly out of here so why oh why oh why the hell can't I I only want variety--of society! 



I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!







EVA and FAMILY



She wants to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple! 







MAGALDI 



Five years from now I shall come back



And finally say, you have your way--come to town 



But you'll look at me with a foreigner's eyes 



The magical city a 



Younger girl's city, a Fantasy long since put down 







EVA 



All you've done to me--was that a young girl's fantasy? 



I played your city games alright--didn't I? 



I already know what cooks, how the dirty city feels and looks



I tasted it last night, didn't I? 



I'm going to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple! 







EVA and FAMILY



She's going to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple! 







MAGALDI 



Eva beware your ambition 



It's hungry and cold, can't be controlled, will run wild 



This in a man is danger enough



But you are a woman, not 



Even a woman, not 



Very much more than a child and whatever you say 



I'll not steal you away! 







6. BUENOS AIRES (EVA and MAGALDI arrive in Buenos Aires) 







EVA 



What's new Buenos Aires? 



I'm new--I want to say I'm just a little stuck on you 



You'll be on me too! 



I get out here Buenos Aires 



Stand back--you ought to know what'cha gonna get in me



Just a little touch of star quality! 



Fill me up with your heat, with your noise, with your dirt, overdo me 



Let me dance to your beat, make it loud. let it hurt, run it through me 



Don't hold back you are certain to impress



Tell the driver this is where I'm staying 



Hello Buenos Aires!



Get this--just look at me, dressed up somewhere to go 



We'll put on a show! 



Take me in at your flood, give me speed, give me lights, set me humming 



Shoot me up with your blood, wine me up with your nights, watch me coming 



All I want is a whole lot of excess 



Tell the singer this is where I'm playing 



Stand back Buenos Aires!



Because you ought to know what'cha gonna get in me 



Just a little touch of star quality! 



And if ever I go too far 



It's because of the things you are



Beautiful town--I love you 



And if I need a moment's rest 



Give your lover the very best 



Real eiderdown--and silence 



You're a tramp, you're a treat, you will shine to the death, you are shoddy



But you're flesh, you are meat, you shall have every breath in my body 



Put me down for a lifetime of success 



Give me credit--I'll find ways of paying 



Rio de la Plata! 



Florida!



Corrientes! 



Nueve de Julio! 



All I want to know! 



Stand back Buenos Aires! 



Because you oughta know what'cha gonna get in me 



Just a little touch of Just a little touch of 



Just a little touch of star quality! 







7. ANOTHER SUITCASE IN ANOTHER HALL 







EVA 



I don't expect my love affairs to last for long 



Never fool myself that my dreams will come true 



Being used to trouble I anticipate it 



But all the same I hate it--wouldn't you?



So what happens now? 







CHE 



Another suitcase in another hall 







EVA



So what happens now? 







CHE 



Take your picture off another wall 







EVA 



Where am I going to? 







CHE



You'll get by, you always have before 







EVA 



Where am I going to? 



Time and time again I've said that I don't care 



That I'm immune to gloom, that I'm hard through and through 



But every time it matters all my words desert me 



So anyone can hurt me--and they do



So what happens now? 







CHE 



Another suitcase in another hall 







EVA 



So what happens now? 







CHE 



Take your picture off another wall 







EVA 



Where am I going to? 







CHE You'll get by you always have before







EVA



Where am I going go? 



Call in three months time and I'll be fine I know 



Well maybe not that fine, but I'll survive anyhow 



I won't recall the names and places of each sad occasion 



But that's no consolation--here and now 



So what happens now? 







CHE



Another suitcase in another hall 







EVA 



So what happens now? 







CHE 



Take your picture off another wall 







EVA 



Where am I going to? 







CHE



You'll get by, you always have before 







EVA 



Where am I going to? 







CHE



Don't ask anymore 







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