The Point of No Return – Phantom of the Opera

I’ve never been one to leave well enough alone. 🙂 I could *not* get the show out of my head after seeing it…I went home the next day and read the original novel and played the London highlights (which I stole from a friend) over and over and over. Luckily, my mom had been touched by it as well, and it didn’t take too much effort to convince her that we needed to go back and see it again before it left the next weekend. 🙂 So, I went to school and told all my friends that I was going, and they were all invited to come along, if they wanted. Of course, Kaela, my best friend, took me up on it, since she’d had to listen to me gush on and on about the show. 🙂 Two others, Pam and Janine, thought it sounded like fun too, and since my grandma lives in Saskatoon, and had seen several other shows in London, we asked her if she’d like to come too! So we had our group! 🙂

Now, I got the task of calling Ticketmaster and getting our tickets. So, I called and said I wanted the best seats I could get for 6 people on the last day of the show. The guy goes, “Okay, how about front row?” So, of course, I took them! 🙂 It wasn’t until we got to the theatre that I realized front row at the Centennial is a little *too* close! I actually enjoyed it quite a bit though, becuase I definitely didn’t need to use binoculars to see facial expressions or anything! But, it was hard to see much of anything that was going on towards the back of the stage, and the whole effect of the candles and fog was rather lost on us. 🙂

The cast was pretty much the same as 10 days earlier, except that we had Teresa de Zarn as Christine. She was incredible! She had wonderful chemistry with both Doug and Cris, and the final scene was absolutely wonderful. I remember much more of the actual performance from this time…especially things like Doug twirling Teresa around at the end of All I Ask of You, and Cris hugging the veil in the final scene. Overall, it was fabulous…I cried even more than I had the first time…so much so, in fact, that one of the members of the ballet chorus nudged the girl standing next to her and pointed me out during curtain call, as I stood there with tears streaming down my face. 🙂

I was so glad I had the chance to see it again, and it only made me more anxious for the next time I would get a chance to see it!

The Quotes:

“How can they see the music??”
Pam commenting on the fog rolling off stage into the orchestra pit and onto us. 🙂

“Um, Kaela? Look up.”
Me, as the chandelier started to fall *right* above us.

“My bun is erecting!”
Janine, commenting on her hair in the bathroom during intermission.

The cast:

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