To cut, or not to cut?
To cut, or not to cut?
Blair
Broadway Star Joined: 11/4/03
#0To cut, or not to cut?
Posted: 3/15/05 at 11:37pmI have an audition on Saturday, and I have to prepare a 60 second monologue. The problem is that my monologue is about a minute or so longer than that. If I cut it, it runs the risk of not being as funny and not making any sense. So my question is: should I just cut some of it anyway, or should I do the whole thing from the beginning and let them cut me off when they've heard enough?
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#1re: To cut, or not to cut?
Posted: 3/15/05 at 11:42pm
How much over are you? If the punchline is in the last few seconds and the rest of the monologue is not funny, I say cut some of it, otherwise once you go over, they'll cut you off thinking that's the best you got.
BTW, thanks for the cop out subject title!
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#2re: To cut, or not to cut?
Posted: 3/16/05 at 12:08am
CUT CUT CUT! nothing looks worse than getting cut off. it means you connot follow directions.
if the monologue looses its effeciveness, then find a new one.
After your audition you can always ask "Would you like to see anything else?" and if they say yes you could do the funny two-minute one you already have!
break a leg!
Blair
Broadway Star Joined: 11/4/03
#3re: To cut, or not to cut?
Posted: 3/16/05 at 9:00amThanks guys, that's what I was thinking. My monologue is from Crimes of the Heart. It was originally a scene between Babe and Barnette, where she tells him what happened after she shot her husband, but we cut Barnette's lines and made it a monologue. If I cut more of it, her story doesn't make any sense, because the whole reason it's funny is because she goes into so many details. But I guess I can just use my Angels in America one that's quite a bit shorter. Thanks so much!
#4re: To cut, or not to cut?
Posted: 3/16/05 at 9:06am
Bujeezus did this thread title scare me...
GET AWAY FROM ME WITH THAT KNIFE!!!
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#6re: To cut, or not to cut?
Posted: 3/16/05 at 9:12am
Those deceptive thread titles...
AAAARGH! I MEAN IT...STAY AWAY!!!
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#7re: To cut, or not to cut?
Posted: 3/16/05 at 9:14amI hear "Dressed to Kill" is on Polish TV tonight...
#8re: To cut, or not to cut?
Posted: 3/16/05 at 9:18amHas anyone ever told you your avatar is beautiful, Wildcat?
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#9re: To cut, or not to cut?
Posted: 3/16/05 at 9:23am
People in faraway lands have been known to gaze at it for hours...
Oh, my AVATAR?
No.
#10re: To cut, or not to cut?
Posted: 3/16/05 at 9:27am
*chuckle*
Another threadjack successfully enacted
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
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