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Too Much Light Makes A Baby Go Blind MONOLOGUE

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#0Too Much Light Makes A Baby Go Blind MONOLOGUE
Posted: 6/16/06 at 9:31pm

Anyone know where to find the monologue regarding the Times Square New Years' Eve Ball Drop online?
Any info would be appreciated :)

And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps... What did she realize, Kitten? That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had... Where? On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.

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#1re: Too Much Light Makes A Baby Go Blind MONOLOGUE
Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:17pm

I think I had an English teacher who did this...

"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too." - Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck

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#2re: Too Much Light Makes A Baby Go Blind MONOLOGUE
Posted: 6/17/06 at 8:19am

A girl in my acting/directing class did it and I thought it was really great - and she did an awesome job on it, so I wanted to try and attempt it. :)

And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps... What did she realize, Kitten? That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had... Where? On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.

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#3re: Too Much Light Makes A Baby Go Blind MONOLOGUE
Posted: 6/21/06 at 2:34pm

Ooooh, I have it! I have it! Hooray for you ~ Nice choice! I simply adore it! =D

"Drop it"
(Rachel Claff)

Rachel:
I Hate New Year's Eve. What a miserable excuse for a holiday. Okay, sure, it's great if you actually have a date to celebrate with, but for the rest of the world, including me, it's go to the stupid party, get drunk, watch Dick Clark and a bunch of candy-coated pop singers counting down in Times Square where a whole bunch of people jammed together even drunker than you are honk annoying little horns and sing an incomprehensible song written in a language that's older than God.

Sure, you could call me bitter. Yeah, okay, I'm a little bitter. But honestly - I don't think it's being single or dateless or even the booze that gets me depressed. Know what it is? That goddamned ball drop. Descending on us, inch by inch, all lit up with promises we didn't keep, places we didn't go, people we didn't call, the resolutions that stayed unresolved all year long and now the year's over, last chance, whoops, too late. Three, two, one, crunch. Happy New Year.

The thing is, it should go up.

The ball. It should go up. It should start to rise, very slowly at first, and then just - go, sailing higher and higher until it's barely visible, just a glimmer, a star, a tiny little reminder. No countdown, just -

And everyone holds their breath and follows it with their eyes, really quiet. And when it finally disappears, we all stop looking at the night sky and come back to each other and stare at each other in total amazement. Like we're seeing each other for the first time.

That's how it should be, I think.

CURTAIN

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#4re: Too Much Light Makes A Baby Go Blind MONOLOGUE
Posted: 6/21/06 at 2:37pm

thanks!!!!

And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps... What did she realize, Kitten? That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had... Where? On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.

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#5re: Too Much Light Makes A Baby Go Blind MONOLOGUE
Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:59pm

No prob =D

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#6re: Too Much Light Makes A Baby Go Blind MONOLOGUE
Posted: 6/25/06 at 10:34am

Does anyone know how long this monologue is time wise? I wanted to use it for a 2 minute audition , but would that work? And it really can't go over..so should I just change my selection?

And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps... What did she realize, Kitten? That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had... Where? On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.

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