On This Night Of A Thousand Stars; Eva And Magaldi; Eva Beware Of The City

(On This Night Of A Thousand Stars)

[MAGALDI]
On this night of a thousand stars
Let me take you o 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 but now I know that it can
I uses to wander alone without a love of my own I was a desperate man
But all my grief disappeared and all the sorrow I'd feared wasn't there anymore
On the 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!

[Aplause, Magaldi joins Eva and her friends at their table. Che is loitering nearby at the bar]

(Eva And Magaldi)

[EVA]
It must be a dream
Agustin Magaldi
The most famous man to visit Junin…

[MAGALDI]
The audience seem
Extremely heavy going-

[CHE]
Listen chum face the fact
They don't like your act.

[MAGALDI]
But this is the sticks!
If this was Buenos Ares
I have that town at my feet
I never ever meet
Members of the public!
They'd tear me apart.

[CHE]
I understand their feelings.

[EVA]
I wanna be a part of BA
Buenos Aires-Big Apple!
(+FRIENDS)
I wanna be a part of BA
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.

[FRIENDS]
What's that? You desert the girl you love?

[MAGALDI]
The girl I love? Who?

[FRIENDS]
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 paper-so far.

[EVA]
I wanna be a part of BA
Buenos Aires-Big Apple!
Would I have done what I did
If I hadn't tought-if I hadn't know
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 class!
I will never accept them
And they will never deny me anything again
My father's other family were middle class
And we were kept out of sight, hidden from view at his funeral!
If these are the people of Buenos Aires
I welcome the chance to shine in their city
And to trample their rotten values into the ground.

[CHE]
Do all your one night stands give you this trouble?

(Eva Beware of the City)

[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 no become
Changed-in short they go bad.

[EVA]
Bad is good for me I'm bored so clean and so ignored
I've been predictable-respectable!
Bird fly out of here so why
Oh why oh why the hell can't I?
I only wanna be a part of BA
Buenos Aires-Big Apple!
(+FRIENDS)
I wanna be a part of BA
Buenos Aires-Big Apple!

[MAGALDI]
Five years form 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 gonna be a part of BA
Buenos Aires-Big Apple!
(+FRIENDS)
I'm gonna be a part of BA
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!