'A Christmas Carol' monologue help and question (semi-urgent)
'A Christmas Carol' monologue help and question (semi-urgent)
#0'A Christmas Carol' monologue help and question (semi-urgent)
Posted: 10/15/05 at 4:55pm
There is a local theater doing 'A Christmas Carol' (as a play!) and they're holding auditions this Wednesday. I'd like to audition, but I'm having some trouble picking a monologue. The monologue needs to be 1 minute long. I'm a 16 year old girl, and any suggestions as to an appropriate monologue would be very much appreciated. Also, would it be reccommended to choose one from the play.
Final question: Has anyone ever seen 'A Christmas Carol' done as a play? What did you think of it?
Thanks in advance.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#1re: 'A Christmas Carol' monologue help and question (semi-urgent)
Posted: 10/15/05 at 5:02pmMy community theatre ALWAYS does Christmas Carol as a play. I think it's a lot more 'scary' in the sense of Scrooge having to reflect about terrble things, and the ghost of Christmas Future is portrayed scary too. Sorry, scary isnt the best word..I love it done as both a play and a musical and the play version is relaly good.
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.
#2re: 'A Christmas Carol' monologue help and question (semi-urgent)
Posted: 10/15/05 at 5:08pm
Thanks! I actually have never heard of it being done as a play.
I'd love to hear more opinions (and monologue suggestions, please!).
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#3re: 'A Christmas Carol' monologue help and question (semi-urgent)
Posted: 10/16/05 at 11:39am
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Anyone?
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Understudy Joined: 9/27/05
#4re: 'A Christmas Carol' monologue help and question (semi-urgent)
Posted: 10/17/05 at 11:03amI think I can help. I had a small part in a school production of A Christmas Carol last year. You could try the monologue from My Fair Lady when Eliza is at the horse races.
Fizz
Broadway Star Joined: 3/8/05
#5re: 'A Christmas Carol' monologue help and question (semi-urgent)
Posted: 10/17/05 at 12:53pm
My school is doing a Christmas Carol right now, and for our monologues, one of the drama teacher took a few lines out here and there from the scenes for monologues. I'll paste the female monologues here if you like.
Mrs Candlewick
And then there is Mr. Scrooge. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire. He carried his own low temperature always about him; he iced his office in the dog days of summer and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas!
Sprit of Christmas Present
I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney corner... and a crutch, without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unchanged by the future, the boy will die. If these shadows remain unaltered, no other brother of mine will find him here. But so what? If he is to die, let him do so and reduce the surplus population. Perhaps you had better learn what the surplus population is beore you open your mouth. It may be that you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child!
Mrs Peartree
Stave One, Marley's ghost. Marley was dead to begin with. There is no doubt, whatever, about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clerk, the clergyman, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was dead as a doornail. This must be distinctly understood or nothing wonderful can come of the story we are about to relate.
I also have two Scrooge monologues, a Fred, and a Bob if you'd like to do a bit of gender-bending :)
Random tip- at our school, you got big points if you tried an English accent, although some people who didn't do the accent got larger parts as well. It adds a bit if you're able to do it.
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