lack of gritty monologues for young girls

[minchkin#5]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 8:51am

i have an audition coming up for musical theatre btec and im have real trouble finding a monologue. im 16 and ive got plenty of books of audition speeches etc but they are all quite, well, rubish. if anyone knows of any really great monolgues that arnt like a girl going to a party or talking bout someone she fancies please please please let me know as i have only got 6 days!
thanks x

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:41am

I use Emilys Goodbye monolouge from Our Town for most of my auditions.

I can't bear it. They're so young and beautiful. Why did they ever have to get old? Mama, I'm here. I'm grown up. I love you all, everything. - I cant look at everything hard enough. (pause, talking to her mother who does not hear her. She speaks with mounting urgency) Oh, Mama, just look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama. I married George Gibbs, Mama. Wally's dead, too. Mama, his appendix burst on a camping trip to North Conway. We felt just terrible about it - don't you remember? But, just for a moment now we're all together. Mama, just for a moment we're happy. Let's look at one another. (pause, looking desperate because she has received no answer. She speaks in a loud voice, forcing herself to not look at her mother) I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. (she breaks down sobbing, she looks around) I didn't realize. All that was going on in life and we never noticed. Take me back - up the hill - to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners? Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clocks ticking? and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths? and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. (she asks abruptly through her tears) Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? - every, every minute? (she sighs) I'm ready to go back. I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people.

I usually start from "I can't go on. It goes so fast." and end with "Do any human beings ever relize life..."

[Blair]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:57pm

Echo's monologue from Eleemosynary is absolutely gorgeous. I've used it before, in a class setting, so I don't really know how overdone it is in the real world, though I suspect it might be.

I recommend that you buy that play. It is one of my favorites.

I don't have a copy of the specific monologue with me at the moment, but I can type it up later on today, if you want.

[gustof777]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 1:18pm

read plays as many as you can with young women roles...it's better than monologue books in my opinion and that's how you find the hidden gems that they haven't heard before

[Katie2]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 1:32pm

When I auditioned for the Alabama School of Fine Arts, I did two monolouges. There's a monolouge in "Joan of Arc" that she does right before they sentence her to death. If you could find that one, it's really good. If I still had it, I'd write it down for you but I don't. Sorry. Also, if you've ever seen "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", Sally does a funny monolouge about how it was unjust that she got a C on her coathanger sculpture. Those are two really good ones.

[deardarling]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 2:29pm

Check ActorPoint.com there are some good ones.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 3:11pm

I have the Joan of Arc one. I'll post it now....

Perpetual imprisonment! Am I not then to be set free?

(ladvenu: set free, child, after such wickedness as yours! what are you dreaming of?)

Give me that writing. L:ight your fire: do you think I dread it as much as the life of a rat in a hole? My voices were right.

(ladvenu: joan! joan!)

Yes: they told me your were fools, and that I was not to listen to you fine words nor trust you charity. you promised me my life; but you lied. you think that life is nothing but not being stone dead. it is not the bread and water i fear: i can live on bread: when have i asked for more? it is no hardship to drink water if the water be clean. bread has no sorrow for me, and water no affliction. but to shut me from the light of the sky and the sight of the fields and flowers; to chain my feet so that i can never again ride with the soliers nor climb the hills; to make me breathe fould damp darkness, and keep from me everything that brings me back to the love of God when your wickedness and foolishness tempt me to hate Him: all this worse than the furnace in the Bible that was heated seven times. i could do without my warhouse; i could drag about in a skit i sould let the banners and the trumpets and the knights and soldiers pass me and leave me behind as they leave the other women, if only i could still hear the wind
in the trees, the larks in the sunshine, the young lambs crying through the healthy frost, and the blessed blessed church bells that send my angel voices floating to me on the wind. but without these things i cannot live; and by your wanting to take them away from me, or from any human creature, i know that your counsel is of the devil and that mine is of God.
-act VI

[broadway_baby_17]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 8:05pm

i found a pretty good one from les mis the book well 2 actually theres one of eponine's death and fantine's arrest...those are both good