Personal Narrative - Football...and Musicals? :: Personal Narrative Essays

My Love of Football...and Musicals?   I am frontmost in my class, an all-state football game player, weigh 220 pounds, and can lift up small cars, yet I have a secret which I have kept transcendental for days. It rages within me, yearning to break free and reveal itself in both(prenominal) shame and splendor. I can contain it no longer. I must shed my inhibitions and proclaim aloud, So help me God, I love musicals   Until now, l wizsome(prenominal) my family and those who have had the experience of calling my house in the midst of one of my renditions of the confrontation scene between Javert and Valjean from Les Misérables knew about my passion for musical theater. For years I have endured ridicule from my sisters and their friends who have overheard me belting out the lyrics to Sunrise, sundown from Fiddler on the Roof while in the shower. Ever since my first musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, seven years ago, I have been haunt with the telling of stories throu gh melody and verse. My heart leaps when I see that phantom of the Opera is coming to the local theater, or when Guys and Dolls is appearing on video recording at one in the morning.   Music is the most beautiful and effectual way to relate emotion. Thus, the entire structure of a tosh is raise by presenting action and dialogue through song. The topic of a story can deal with anything from religion, such as in Godspell, to a vulturine man-eating plant (Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors), but no matter which, music brings to life a storyline and places a action forever in ones head by providing a harmony to be continually associated with it.   Musicals also provide me with an emotional outlet. When enthralled by a member of the opposite sex, I am wont to burst into a performance of Maria from West Side Story. After an exhaustive football practice, my lips chant Im Free from the rock opera Tommy and at my desk, feeling lordly after getting the highest grade on a calc ulus test, I sing quietly, I am the very model of a late Major-General, from The Pirates of Penzance. I can delve into the recesses of my mind and produce a order fitting for any occasion, and I take pride in this ability.   while preparing this confession, a less musically inclined friend of mine happened upon a rough draft of the revelation.