Why so Silent? - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Why so silent, good Messieurs?

Did you think that I had left you for good?

Have you missed me, good Messieurs?

I have written you an opera.

Here I bring the finished score:

Don Juan Triumphant!

Fondest greetings to you all

A few instructions just before rehearsal starts

Carlotta must be taught to act

Not her normal trick of strutting around the stage

Our Don Juan must lose weight

It’s not healthy in a man of Piangi’s age

And my managers must learn that their place is in an office

Not the arts

As for our star, Miss Christine Daae…

No doubt she’ll do her best

It’s true, her voice is good

She knows, though

Should she wish to excell

She has much still to learn

If pride will let her return to me, her teacher

Her teacher…