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Past the point of no returnNo backward glances
Our games of make believe are at an end
Past all thought of if or when
No use resisting
Abandon thought and let the dream descend
What raging fire shall flood the soul
What rich desire unlocks its door
What sweet seduction lies before us?
Past the point of no return
The final threshold
What warm unspoken secrets
Will we learn
beyond the point of no return?
'Past the Point of No Return' from The Phantom of the Opera
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Beauteous. ^^ I love how she looks sort of afraid of him, and he's all "Ma chere..."...I can almost hear Erik saying that. *sigh* Anyway, nice work!
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That's really cool! And their poses and everything, very talented!
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Nicely done. your pic looks really romantic
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You have brought me to that moment
where words run dry, to that moment
where speech disappears into silence,
silence . . .
I have come here, hardly knowing
the reason why . . .
In my mind, I've already
imagined our bodies entwining
defenceless and silent -
and now I am here with you:
no second thoughts, I've decided,
decided . . .
Past the point of no return
no going back now:
our passion-play has now, at last,
begun . . .
Past all thought of right or wrong -
one final question:
how long should we two wait, before
we're one . . .?
When will the blood begin to race
the sleeping bud burst into bloom?
When will the flames, at last, consume
us . . .?
I love the Phantom of the Opera!
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Beautiful!! I LOVE THAT SONG. And the one after it on the CD. ^^
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Eeeee, me too! 
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Beautiful work. They look lovely, and so true to their characters.
Do you take doll requests, by the way? I love what you do!
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I LOVE you! I just got off of the piano from playing Phantom of the Opera, and then the first thing I saw on the home page of my compu when I opened the internet (dA) was THIS! I love you! Seriously! That was such an awesome coincidence! Seriously... without search function, I can't find cool phanart anymore >< Anywho, awesome dolls, love Christine, and... oh my god... that is one sexy phantom you have there XD Shirt open and everything! *drool* I hope my boyfriend doesn't ever see that o.O
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Prolly not.. I'm musically talented, but I SUCK at piano, and I can play the sheet music just fine... just remember a double flat is basically just the note a whole step further left on the piano... *grin* Only one of those in Point of No Return, actually... and Jesus, lord, that song is tough! It's so weird! Andrew Lloyd Weber is a genius, because all the songs that are part of Don Juan Triumphant are so perfectly strange... exactly what the work of an eccentric genius might sound like... they don't follow the proper rules of music, and sound really off sometimes... especially that one song that they sing in the bar or whatever? THat's a weird song... but in Point of no Return, before the chorus, they sing a bunch of random notes, the key signature is just C Major, but the chords are changing all over the place, sharps flats, you name it, all there, and its just really weird and it sounds off, but it still sounds cool... that's Erik for you ^^
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Yeah, I'm the Assistant Pianist at church and the painist who just left to live in NZ had the score book and she took it away from me 
Question... who the heck is Erik?! Did he right the REAL Don Juan or something? Is there a real opera called Don Juan?
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Don Juan is a real opera, I think... but Erik is just another name for the Phantom.... and Don Juan Triumphant is a mockery of his existance which he wrote... yeah... and as for crazy music... have you ever SEEN Les Miserables sheet music? CRAZY It's got one song in all 12/8, and then halway through there's a measure of 6/8 and then a measure of like 16/8 and then it goes back to 12/8, but then it changes to like 2/2, and it's the WEIRDEST music ever... but it sounds less weird... it's only weird, time signature wise... Phantom is weird in the opera thingy because the notes don't go at all, but it still sounds cool...
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I've only seen the 'On My Own' score, but it was made to be a lot simpler.
Memories from Cats is pretty crazy! It changes a lot like what you said. But still completley crazy. I don't know how those geniuses do it!
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Well, I duno if I said this.. but "Point of No Return" from Phantom of the Opera definetely takes the cake for weird strange musical stuff... I mean... its so weird... what I love is how composers make... mood... emotion... with the music... like how in Point of no return, the beginning is turmoiled, but I almost feel my own heart beating faster when I hear the chorus... it's sorta riveting... and then at the end of the chorus, I can never help myself from smiling and stuff... but like sad smile... whatever, I know, I'm weird XD
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No not weird, just musically intellectual! 
We were listening to Into the Woods (Sondheim) for music which I shall also be seeing tonight and my goodness, he goes COMPLETLEY outside the realms of tradtion uses weird rhythms and for his lyrics he uses alliteration and pile up rhythms, and it's a little strange to listen to at first but really it's very musicanlly and bordering on classical and theatre music. We were reading a some text on it and it said that untrained ears don't really like it, when they're used to normal and traditional broadway songs like My Fair Lady and all that.
But we, with the musically trained ears can acquire likeness for it.
But it is a very good and weird score, and he was even trained by a bit of Rodgers and a LOT of Hammerstein and someother person like Cole Porter or someone so he's very musically talented!
Like our favourite phantom! Yeah, Past the Point of no Return is one of my favourite PotO songs, completley wonderful!
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I LOVE Into the Woods! In 8th grade, for the school musical, I was the cow.. and you know something? I got the most applause when we bowed and I took off my mask... in my life... and of all the other cast members... it's because when I died, I mooed funny... and because I walked into Rapunzel's tower... first night I walked into the wall more than the tower and got stuck, and then The Baker's Wife had to help me off stage!! and the second night, the director laid out tape, but before he put the tower down, so when he put the tower down, the tape led right into the tower... it was sooo funny >< and I couldn't see anything but the ground below lolol... ya... anyways, soundheim is a genius, and that musical is so awesome,... I can listen to the music for forever... its so incredibly clever.... "But it isn't my fault I was given those beans, you persuaded me to trade away my cow for beans." "Where they worthless beans, where they oversold? And tell us who persuaded you to steal that gold?!" "So it's your fault" *loves that song*
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Ahh, yes that song is wonderful! Haha, just like those petty humans! Blaming everyone else.
Yeah, I saw it last night! I absolutley LOVED it! It was so awesome, he really is a genius. I like on the Steps of the Palace, it had some weird rhymes; "So I left a clue, a simple shoe, and now let's do, and who's in the stew, with the goo, and who ever knew" It was soo funny!
Hmph, our cow was just some cardboard thing with plaster on it and all the rest, so was the chicken and the baby. We didn't get a real one *mutters, "Stupid 'professionals' can't even use a human cow* lol
I think the one who got the most applause was the baker and his wife, closely followed by Red Riding Hood. She was awesome and crazy and inncoent and devilish all rolled into one
The whole audience went "aawwwww" when she said 'I'll stay with you' to Jack and we went aaawww, and then she said 'I'll be your mother!' and we all gave a huge laugh. And then when the Baker's wife was singing that 'you're never alone' song to her husband and the baby, Jack and Cinderella were holding hands 
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Oh! I have the soundtrack! It's so amazsing XD I like the witch rap... memorized the whole thing a while ago XD It's so catchy! the whole show is just very witty, ya know? Lots of puns and rhyms and clever stuff...
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The witch rap, umm, which one is that, is that when she was standing on the rock and telling them off for blaming everybody and all that? Yeah, I still had the song in my head when I woke up this morning, "Into the Woods, to grandma's house." "I wish to go to the festival" Yeah and my friends were like "Renee!' what ARE you singing." Haha weird looks
Hmm, I think my music teacher has the soundtrack... I think I'll borrow it until all the lyrics and melody are imprinted in my memory!
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Haha, no the one about the greens! "In the past, when your mother was with child, she developed an unusual appetite. In fact, she took one look at my guardian and told your father what she wanted most in the world waaas:
Greens, greens and nothin but greens, parsley, peppers, cabbages and celery, asparagus and lettuce, and he said all right but it wasn't quite cuz I caught him in the autumn in my garden one night, he was robbing me, raping me, rooting my arrugala, and ripping up the rampion, my champion! My favorite! So, I laid a little spell on him!" and so on and so forth (its longer and I think I missed a part)
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Ahh yes... we were singing that in class! Hehe it was fun! My music teacher said she'd lend me her video ('cept I won't have time to watch it till the holidays 
I got a lift to the theatre with my friend and her step brother and he had a really crap day, but then he saw the the musical and he was just dazed afterwards. He kept exclaiming about it. Haaha
Ahh, such a great musical!!
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Ya, it really is. I made a huge effort to get the DVD. Especially since while on broadway I kept saying I wanted to see it, but never got around to it... and then it went off... and I never thought twice till later.. I was so upset XD
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aww, well at least you have it now which is more than I can say for myself! haha, i've had the steps of the palace in my head since friday, and i try to be like Sondheim and speak in rhyme wich really annoys my parents but's it fun cos I'm not a nun, and i'd like a baker's bun, but I don't want his son, but how warm is the sun, inc which to have fun and so on and so forth etc...
Yeah like that!
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hahaha! I can't do rhyme... maybe because I say orange too much lol
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Orange, orange is hardly a part of my daily speech, but I'm sure you could make up a word that rhymes with orange. Like borange could mean, 'you screwed up' or made a mistake or something!
Well now my music teacher bought the soundtrack and we listened to it in class today! i was very pleased. we got to listen to the witch rap although the first version i heard of it is still in my books infinitley better than anything Bernadette Peters can sing. And for our Aural Exam we get to listen to one of the songs from it. How lucky are we!!
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Very lucky! But personaly, Bernadette Peters is, like, one of my altime favorite singers... what a unique voice that woman has... she came to the Paramount here in Peekskill (five/ten minutes away!!) and sang, and I reeeaally wanted to go.. I wanted to since that September.. and it was in June.. so that sys something... but it was soo expensive! It was like more than an orchestra seat in a broadway show which is, frankly, absurd..... and my mom wouldn't let me... I would be fine if she'd just dropped me off and let me see it.. I've been to tones of city places without parents lol.. but she said no >< it was like 220 dollars or something...
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Bernadette Peters is pretty cool, but tlak aobut unique, the witch we had, she was like a Stephen Sondheim singer. Like her vocal timbre wasn't at all conventional and if it were out of context with the character i dont think many people would have liked it. But at she was singing as the witch, i just fitted in perfectly. Like Sondheim
Oh, my all time favourite singer is Julie Andrews (all though she cant sing any more
Oh My Gosh if there is one musical you should see that is so complex and awesome and all that it's Jekyll and Hyde. I've only seen snatches of it but the music is amazing. I really suggest listening to Confrontation Umm Frank Wildehorn is the composer and he is another genius.
I'm so annoyed, os many musical geniues and I cant even write a good composition!
Ahh well, it is really really good!
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I can't write music either 
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Nah, I donβt think youβre conceited. Itβs not bad to want to be good at everything. Well I just finished my music composition for school. Some of itβs not too bad, but I just couldnβt get it right anyway! It was very frustrating! I have been working on improvising lately in singing lessons, and Iβm not too bad, but Iβm not very confident either. Oh well. Actually maybe the only thing Iβm best at in music is singing. I succeeded in making a teacher cry a few tears in my rendition of The Sound of Music my only thing to claim. Last January in our summer holidays, I was like, now I got this Finale notepad thing that helps me write lots of lines and hear it with everything type thing, so I think Iβll write a musical. (Cos I can write some lyrics for songs) I couldnβt find a good enough plot, but now Iβve decided Iβm going to use one for a story that Iβve never written down but has been stuck in my head and developing for like three years. I still want to try to do it, but I donβt think Iβll get very far with it.
Iβve been listening to my Sound of Music soundtrack lately. Whenever I hear it I just feel so good! And I have this kind of like longing I guess to be able to write music like that. I watched Victor/Victoria for the first time the other day. (Thank goodness we have Cable tv now) Ooh, Julie gives me goose bumps every time she sings. Even when she is dressed like a man. Sheβs so wonderful, I wish I could meet her!
I checked out Idina Menzel sheβs a pretty good singer, I like the laid-back style she has, but it still sounds good!
βSomeone like youβ Iβll have to remember that. My breaks arenβt smooth, it sounds like a good song to try. At the moment Iβm working on a very challenging song called βJoyspringβ itβs a jazz song and my teacher picked it out cos the other songs she chose werenβt challenging enough. Itβs hard and Iβm enjoying it. But right now Iβm in exam block. My last exam is music tomorrow, which Iβm not really worried about. At the moment I am broke, which stopped me from seeing Into the Woods again L Ahh well. Maybe Iβll accidently run into the cute guy that played Jack and he get his Cinderella and LRRH friends to sing it for me! 
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X3 Ya, Idina's laid-backness is why I like her sometimes... but then in Wicked... jeebus, she's sooo strong in her head voice... like as strong as I am in my chest voice...? I have such a strong chest, and my head sucks T_T Anywho, I think its GREAT that yer writing a musical... I'd offer to play a roll in it if it wasn't a threat to my health to meet someone on the internet XD But really, if you keep trying, you'll just get better~! ^^ Surround yourself with amazing music and stuffs... especially since it seems you have a good grasp of chord and music theory? Listen to the music and break it down in your head as you read it... ya... or something... X3
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I'd offer you a part in it if it wasn't a threat to my health. I know I can trust me, but you...
Yep I've been listening to lots of Broadway stuff recently, just borrowed a Lerner and Loewe CD with My Fair Lady, Gigi and Camelot music on it. I take notice of music soo much. The first time I saw HP2 i said to mum afterwards, 'wasn't that music amazing' and she's like 'um, yeah i didn't really hear much of it' and then she bought me the soundtrack for my birthday (go John Williams 
Aww shucks, i don't know if my music theory is that good, it certainly has increased though since I changed to a heaps better school! You seem like a very musically in tune person!
Yeah, i've been having singing lessons since February and i'm going pretty good, and working on my head voice a bit.
I haven't seen Wicked but I'd like to! It sounds like a great musical!
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Wicked is the bestest musical out there! x3 As for our health and all that, internet sucks that way... but that's what anime conventions are for
As for musics and listening to good composers... *coughcough* I know a few hints as to great peoples. First off, never forget Andrew Lloyd Weber.. he's a genius.. he wrote sooo many musicals, its amazing.. he made Cats, and he wrote Phantom of the Opera, and he composed quite a few other classic musicals that everyone knows... and his songs are tons of goodness, always... listen to "Point of No Return" a lot... it's almost atonal, because it has no coherent key signature at the beginning.. like its just chords, so its almost like the key changes every time another note is sung.. that song is too amazing that way... and as for other peoples, Always always look at Sondheim, if you want rhythmical advice... Into the Woods, Merrily We Roll Along... he has a great taste in rhythm, and tends to use lots of triplets, but skillfully so.. it creates a great sound to his pieces... listen to "Not a Day Goes By" and probably to "It Takes Two"... I've found "Anyone Can Whistle" isn't as good as the others... I think he wrote Gypsy..? Oh, and try looking into Schwartz... I don't know what else he did before Wicked.., but it musta been good! XD And my suggestion overall is try lots of cool different Key Signatures... Les Miserables goes CRAAZY with key signature, and it works out really well... 12/8, 15/8, 9/8, 6/8.... 12/8 always sounds really nice... it gives the whole piece a triplet-esque feel... so it feels all syncapated and whatnot... that's all the advice I have... and remember, I don't know how to compose XD I'm just giving random advice that could help.. because I know stuffs about music.. I suck at music theory myself...
I'm very glad to here that I've been helpful! Especially since most of my rambling is just annoying
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Well I'll have to borrow it from the Library or something.
Oh yeah, Andrew Llyod Webber is awesome! And I think Point of No Return must be one of my favourite Phantom songs, but the whole thing, sometimes it just blows me away with how awesome it is. Especially when Christine and Raoul are runnning up the stairs and singing the Phantom of the Opera tune after Joseph Buquet was murdered and the accompaniement and melody that is differed a bit is really cool! I dont like Jesus Christ Superstar, but i do admit that the music for it is awesome, i just cant believe he wrote when he was my age! btwn 16-18 and im just like, my gosh he's a genius, there's no other word for it!
And Jekkyl and Hyde still astounds me.
Well I just started working at a supermarket and with my first pay check i went to Allans music store and checked out all their sheet music *happy sigh* that place makes me feel soo good!
Yep Into the Woods is on my list of favourite musicals now! And I love Send in the Clowns, that song is really cool, especially when sung by Julie Andrews
I just need really high tech music software that I can hook a keyboard up to and play and it will just spell it out for me so i dont have to figure out the key signatures and rhythms cos that is my worst point.
It would be annoying to non-music people, cos they wouldn't understand it very much
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Hahaha, well, Finale's expensive, but it does all that ^^ And I agree, Andrew Lloyd Weber is just pure genius.. I mean think about it... he managed to compose a musical in which there is opera, and also, there is an operetic genius. He wrote the music that was supposedly written by Erik, an almost inhuman being with the amazing ability to compose music that corresponds with his every emotion... hell, in the book (Susan Kay's version) he actually manages to rape Christine with his music.. it's unbelievable... and this tortured and disfigured being with the magnificent ability to create music which draws from the very soul... ya, Andrew Lloyd Weber portrayed all of that... overall, the fact that he could convince us that it was music written by Erik makes him a genius ^^
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My Reply is below, i'm not sure if it worked, cos it doesnt say "parent"
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i got Finale notepad, but it doesn't do all of that. It certainly beats writing it all out by hand though. THat has got to be one of the most tedious things in all the world. It's a good thing the printing press was around for Mozart and all that, other wise they would have been more than just eccentric, they would've been COMPLETELY physco!!
I went over my friends house today and watched the Phantom of the Opera movie with her and her brother, and her mum who is british and is in movies (she normally plays goblins and the likes) introduced them to ALW, and so both of them, who have heard the music, but have never seen the movie, got completely into it. It was so wonderful! And I said "oh, he's SUCH a genius at least twice that day!
And after trying hard not to sing during the most awesome songs and it finsished, and some failed attempts by my friends cousins and a 'do you think i should do Australian Idol?' i sung to "Learn to be Lonely" which i think is my ALW but I'm not sure. It's a very good song though. And then we watched the promos and I listened to the lovely Michael Crawford sing to me.
And then, my friend pullled out the DVD for Andrew Llyod Webber's 50th Birthday celebration at Royal Albert Hall and it was wonderful!! *happy sigh* completley wonderful! He's completley wonderful! and I loved Whistle down the Wind and Evita and everything. And my friend is lending it to me!!
I could rave about him for ages, because he's just soooo sooooo wonderful!!! I wish I could tell him in person!!
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Awesome! I didn't know he wrote Evita! I love Don't Cry for me Argentina. It's from that, no? Oh, and I do have to say, that even though he's not as much of a genius.. there's something about Sondheim... and the clever lyrics in into the Woods... but basically, his sound is so... different.. he uses such different rhythms... I'm always so intrigued by his music, and the different style comes through and sounds so aesthetically pleasing
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Oh no, they're both musical geniuses. It just so happens that one is more recognised then the other. I would think that the majority of people who know who ALW is, would not know who Stephen Sondheim is, although his Send in the Clowns is quite a famous song. I didn't know Sondheim wrote it till i read it in my musci textbook.
Oh yeah, PoNR is such an awesome song, and I LOVE to sing it, probably more so than the other songs from Phantom. Wel;l I sing it more than his other songs.
I haven't seen the sheet music for Into the Woods so I don't really know the rhytms that he uses, but he is really smart with them. And also because his melodies and rhythms can be a bit complicated, he makes the accompaniement a bit repetive so that the actors can sing it bet. He's sooo clever!
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