Menzel's closing charge draws on her identity as a performer. If the bard is correct and all the world's a stage, today the graduates step out onto it. They've rehearsed for four years — or five, or six, or longer for graduate students. "Between us, the production process always takes longer than you think." But nothing is ever perfectly scripted. The world is more experimental than traditional, more dissonant than harmonious, more off-off-Broadway than Broadway. So as they step into the spotlight, no one will blame them for stage fright — but she asks them, from one performer to another, not to let it stop them.