Anyone Can Whistle question...

[mywonderwa11]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 10:34pm

Is there any sort of monologue leading up to "Everybody Says Don't?" I've never seen the show before and I need it for an audition.

Thanks!

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 11:29pm

No, there isn't. The lead up to the song is Hapgood is trying to convince Fay to destroy the patients' records, because then there would be no way of knowing who the escapees from the sanitarium are, and Fay refusing to do so. He trys to rip them up himself and she tells him "Don't" and that leads into the song.

(I think that you might be thinking of "There Won't Be Trumpets" which got cut from the show because the monologue that preceded it got more applause than the song did.)

[mywonderwa11]

Posted: 12/8/08 at 11:39pm

I don't know the show that well, basic plot...few songs...

I would assume that a female character gives that monologue leading up to "There Won't Be Trumpets"...

I plan on singing "Everybody Says Don't" at a unified audition and I need to choose a monologue, too. I just thought it'd be easier to do a monologue that goes with the song I choose.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 7:39am

I actually think that "Anyone Can Whistle" is a truly underappreciated masterpiece. The book is hysterical, yet touching, the score is phenomenal, and the casts (both OBC and Concert) are pretty close to perfection.

[once a month]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 8:21am

I loved the concert with Bernadette Peters, Scott Bacula, Madeline Kahn and just an oh-so-wonderful cast. I can see why it didn't make it on Broadway during its day, but the concert for the fund a few years ago made it exceedingly enjoyable. I wish they'd officially release that!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 11:18am

They did release the GMHC concert, it's just out of print.

Now, the 2-Disc Jay one? It's unreleased.

[iplaythegirl]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 11:23pm

Uhm yea...exsqueeze me, but this is a great score for girls looking for audition pieces. It's overlooked...which is good for the auditioners But yea, no, not really a monologue. swish.