Question about audition monologues?

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."

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