Question about audition monologues?
Question about audition monologues?
#1Question about audition monologues?
Posted: 1/14/12 at 2:07pm
I'm looking for a monologue to use to audition for a college drama course. It has to be between 1-2 minutes. I thought (and then read) that if I'm doing one, it should be one I love and connect with to give a good performance.
Anyway, I love musicals and all of my favorite shows are musicals as opposed to plays, so would it be okay to take a song and perform the lyrics as a monologue instead of a song? Thanks for any help:)
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#2Question about audition monologues?
Posted: 1/18/12 at 10:24am
No.
Lyrics are lyrics and are not even the same as poetry, and if they wanted a poem, they'd ask for one.
Find a monologue. Ask your drama teacher. Ask your community theatre mavens. Ask the librarian. You'd be surprised how many people can easily help in your search. There are a ton of monologues out there.
Once you have picked one, get somebody who knows what they're doing to coach you.
And remember to read the entire play. Don't even think about doing a monologue without knowing what has happened before and what will happen afterwards. Also, there is text (the words) and then there is sub-text (the emotions behind the words).
Avoid the ones that everyone has done since the dawn of time (Romeo for instance). Every person listening to auditions has heard these speeches and heard them done far better and also much worse that whoever is doing the speech in front of them at the time.
Finally, remember the words of the great character actor, Edmund Gwenn, on his deathbed, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
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#2Question about audition monologues?
Posted: 1/29/12 at 12:51pm
Yea thats not really a good idea
When someone asks for a monologue especially for school auditions theyre usually most interested in one from a "published play"
Even using one of those monologue books isnt the best of ideas IMO
Theres nothing better than reading a play, connecting with it, finding a piece of text in it you can use and then perform it and be able to have all the given information from the playwright right there in front of you
and the audition panel may even know the piece and strike up convo!
but no - dont use a song!
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