Personal Narrative: The Sound Of Music

I was practicing the routine for my opening act, for the Broadway musical "The Sound of music." I am an actress playing the lead role of the main character Maria. My director Jane Marshall says," Barbara, you only have twenty minutes until your performance." My only chance to start a satisfying reputation for myself and please the audience. As I listened to those words come out of my directors mouth, that's when it dawned on me. I will only have one chance to do it right. I wouldn't want to cause any disarrays.

It is precisely 8: 29 P.M. Only one minute until showtime, meanwhile all I hear is the shuffling of the audience's feet making their way to their seats. I started feeling multiple emotions. I was nervous and my anxiety kicked in. The

anxiety try's to hold me back, although it will never succeed. I will conquer it. Despite perturbation, I still manage to rise in front of the audience. As I was standing on the stage in front of more then 4.2 million people, I was having my doubts of causing a disarrayed performance. I am doing this to fulfill my dream. My dream of performing in front of a live audience.
An actress is a person that is portraying a role of a character in a theater or on television; Therefore, I started my opening act. I remembered once again, that I only have one chance. I sang. I danced. It made me feel as free as a bird breaking free of it's cage. As I completed my last and final act, I felt relieved and all the stress dropped.
While the audience Cheers, I, Barbara Burgess feel better about myself. I am finally relieved of all the stress. That was a humungous weight lifted off my shoulders. I feel much more confident now. When I get up on the stage to perform in front of another audience, I am constantly reminded of that night in which I was startled to pass the felt curtains. It remind me that I will never be obligated to perform through anxiety or pertubation again. I will always succeed.
Looking back, and remembering that I only had 20 minutes until my performance and I was freaking out. I didn't feel like I was worthy for this opportunity. I thought I was going to make this performance a chaos. Only now do I know that not everything is as compacted as it seems. That opening act has changed my life for the best.