(An audience is watching a less than distinguished movie [in both the original London and New York productions of EVITA a clip from one of Eva Peron's own movi...

PERON Dice are rolling, the knives are out Would be presidents are all around I don't say they mean harm, but they'd each give an arm To see us six feet under g...

CHE (and WORKERS on choruses) And the money kept rolling in from every side Eva's pretty hands reached out and they reached wide Now you may feel it should hav...

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 hat...

(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 her...

(Backstage at the Luna Park Stadium EVA by now a successful actress, and PERON, by now one of the most powerful men in the military government, are both presen...

EVA It won't be easy, you'll think it strange When I try to explain how I feel That I still need your love after all that I've done You won't believe me All you...

(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...

EVA The actress hasn't learned the lines you'd like to hear She's sad for her country Sad to be defeated by her own weak body (a microphone is switched on--she...

CHE (To EVA's FIRST LOVER) Goodnight and thank you whoever She's in every magazine, been photographed, seen She is known We don't like to rush but your case has...

EVA Hello and goodbye! I've just unemployed you You can go back to school--you had a good run I'm sure he enjoyed you Don't act sad or surprised, let's be frien...

CHE High flying, adored, so young, the instant queen, a Rich beautiful thing of all the talents, a cross between a Fantasy of the bedroom and a saint You were j...

(PERON leaves the stage and finds himself face to face with EVA) EVA Colonel Peron? PERON Eva Duarte? EVA and PERON I've heard so much about you! I'm amazed...

(In her last hours, images, people and events from EVA's life flow through her mind, while the grief of the nation knows no bounds) EVA The choice was mine and...

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 mournin...

(PERON has just won a sweeping victory in the 1946 Presidential Election This is the first public appearance by PERON and EVA since that triumph Action takes p...

EVA I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron in his noble crusade to rescue his people! I was once as you are now! And I promise you this We will take ...

(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 ...

CROWD Evita Peron! Partido Feminista! (Repeated) EVA Peron is everything! He's the soul, the nerve, the hope and the Reality of the Argentine people We all kn...

EVA There again I've more to do Then simply get the message through I haven't started! Let's get this show on the road Let's make it obvious Peron is off and ro...

(PERON and some of his OFFICERS reflect on EVA's European progress CHE takes over many of the OFFICERS' lines during this sequence and also adds various commen...

(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

CHILDREN Please, gentle Eva, will you bless a little child? For I love you--tell Heaven I'm doing my best I'm praying for you, even though you're already blesse...

PERON (to OFFICERS) But on the other hand--she's all they have She's a diamond in their dull gray lives--and that's the Hardest kind of stone--it usually surviv...

ARISTOCRACY Thus all fairy stories end Only an actress would pretend Affairs of state are her latest play Eight shows a week two matinees My how the worm begins...

(Five members of the GOU, a right-wing grouping of officers within the military government that seized power in Argentina in 1943, including Colonel Juan PERON...

CHE Tell me before I waltz out of your life Before turning my back on the past Forgive my impertinent behavior But how long do you think this pantomime can last...

EVA Where do we go from here? This isn't where we intended to be We had it all You believed in me I believed in you Certainties disappear What do we do for our...

PERON Your little body's slowly breaking down You're losing speed, you're losing strength--not style-- that goes on Flourishing forever, but your eyes, your smi...