Past the Point of No Return!!!

Background:

A musical that depicts the story the famous Paris Opera House in France during the year 1870. This opera house was known for its star performers, music, dance, and story line as well as its haunting ghost stories of an opera ghost known as the phantom. For this phantom is known for mysterious notes of creative suggestions, letters of payments, and the accusable deaths found within the opera house. The main character Christine Daae, a chorus girl who secretly receives anonymous voice lessons from she thinks is her deceased father’s angel. Christine is mistaken when she learns this person is not from her father but instead a masked musical genius that lives under the opera house due to his deformity. Sacred of the phantom’s obsessive claim over Christine, Raoul her fiancé determines he shall step up a trap in hopes to rid Christine of this living nightmare. He follows the phantom’s instructions of a new opera, and allows Christine to play the role hoping it will lure him into the audience while guards surround the opera house. To everyone’s fears the phantom makes an appearance but not as an audience member but rather a character on stage. In the song “Past the point of no return”, the phantom tries to appeal to Christine through music, to leave him and explore a new life full of mystery.

Past the Point of No Return

You have come here
In pursuit of your deepest urge
In pursuit of that wish which till now
Has been silent
Silent.

I have brought you
That our passions may fuse and merge
In your mind you've already succumbed to me, dropped all defenses
Completely succumbed to me
Now you are here with me
No second thoughts
You've decided
Decided.

Past the point of no return
No 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 it's 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?

CHRISTINE: You have brought me
To that moment when words run dry
To that moment when speech disappears
Into silence
Silence.

I have come here,
Hardly knowing the reason why
In my mind I've already imagined
Our bodies entwining
Defenseless and silent,
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?

BOTH: Past the point of no return
The final threshold
The bridge is crossed
So stand and watch it burn
We've passed the point of no return.


PHANTOM:(soft and sort of saddened) Say you'll share with me
One love, one lifetime
Lead me, save me from my solitude

Say you want me
With you here
Beside you
Anywhere you go
Let me go too
Christine that's all I ask of…
(Christine tears the mask, showing his face to the audience)

Dilemma:

As the phantom in trying to appeal to Christine he knows that when he sings she becomes paralyzed by his voice. He begins by saying “You have come here in pursuit of your deepest urge. In pursuit of that wish which till now has been silent”. He then states he knows she is defenseless against his voice, “In your mind you've already succumbed to me, dropped all defenses completely succumbed to me. Now you are here with me no second thoughts you’ve decided.” He goes on in his song telling her to come with him and to not look back. Having your dreams become a permit reality instead of a thought. “Past the point of no return no backward glances our game 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 it's door, what sweet seduction lies before us? Christine after hears his offer responses back to him pretending as if she is interested “You have brought me to that moment when words run dry. To that moment when speech disappears into silence, silence. I have come here, hardly knowing the reason why…Defenseless and silent, 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…” We all struggle the emotion of fear, though there are times where the fear tempts us to act without thought. Giving into your desires and wishes at times can be fatal without any thought.