Best Monologues in a Broadway Play

[theonlyone]

Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#0

Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:48pm

Which one are your favorites?

[FosseBoi]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#1

Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:43pm

Quite a few of the monologues in both parts of "Angels in America".

"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread. ~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line

[OnMyWay]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#2

Posted: 6/5/06 at 1:20am

Frances' in the second act of History Boys.

"People that excel in the arts understand that the journey is the reward...the result an added bonus. Every day I act or train is a blessing and a dream come true. If Broadway beckons so be it. I have a personal definition of success that is unshakable by a possibly unobtainable goal." -HamletWasBipolar

[Lavieboheme3090]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#3

Posted: 6/5/06 at 1:24am

The stories in The Pillow Man

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#4

Posted: 6/5/06 at 1:48am

Check out Brian Friel
Molly Sweeney has great stuff

[Katurian2]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#5

Posted: 7/30/06 at 8:01pm

The overdone, but nonetheless astoundingly impactful "theatre endings" speech that Buzz gives in "Love! Valour! Compassion!"


and basically every time that one occurs in Angels in America. Tony Kushner is a god.

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

[queendork]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#6

Posted: 7/30/06 at 8:16pm

A thread about straight plays?! I can hardly believe it.

I love the Pato Dooley letter recitation monologue in The Beauty Queen of Leenane.

Edited to fix a typo.
Updated On: 7/30/06 at 08:16 PM

[RentBoy86]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#7

Posted: 7/30/06 at 11:13pm

Not Broadawy, but Off-Broadway, I love Helen's speech at the end of Scene 1 in "Fat Pig" as well as Tom's final speech.

[gustof777]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#8

Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:29am

^ I love that one too! I loved that play soo much. I gotta go with Billy Crudup's stories in The Pillowman. Just amazing and had me on the edge all night.

RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~

[The Distinctive Baritone]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#9

Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:31am

Steppenwolf is doing "Pillowman" this season. It sounds way cool. I'm sorry I missed the Broadway production.

[RentBoy86]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#10

Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:33am

I really can't get into the play. I find the text rather boring. Perhaps if I knew more about the show while reading it? I just picked up "some girl(s)" - can't wait to read it.

[gustof777]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#11

Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:40am

I loved Some Girl(s)...let me know what you think. I sorta have recently fallen in love with LaBute because of The Shape of Things and This is How it Goes.

RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~

[singinswinga]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#12

Posted: 7/31/06 at 1:21am

Samuel Byck in Assassins has some great ones. Or, at least one great one.

I know this groc'ry clerk...

[JudasIscariot]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#13

Posted: 7/31/06 at 2:47am

I like the monologue where Johnny finds out that Michael is dying in Tick...Tick...BOOM!

[muscle23ftl]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#14

Posted: 7/31/06 at 2:48am

The priest's prayers in Doubt. Brilliant.

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[Mamie]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#15

Posted: 7/31/06 at 4:45am

Also off B'way - "A Chip in the Sugar" from TALKING HEADS. Actually, all the monologues in TH's were good - but this one was my favorite.

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[jasonf]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#16

Posted: 7/31/06 at 9:43am

I don't know if it counts as a monlogue or not, but John's counting the ten commandments in The Crucible is awesome. (Maybe because of the line following the monologue, but still)

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

[Mike3]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#17

Posted: 7/31/06 at 11:33am

Mason in Act One of TAKE ME OUT.

"And I think what's best about us is manifested in our desire to show respect for one another. For what we can be."

Denis O'Hare was excellent.

[Katurian2]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#18

Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:53pm

Wow- I totally forgot about the stories in The Pillowman. I <3 that show! A theatre in Denver, CO is also putting it on this season- I'm draggin all my friends to it.

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

[gustof777]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#19

Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:55pm

isn't it great how many productions there will be this year? Steppenwolf, the Wilma in Philly, yours in Denver. Such a powerful show!

RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~

[Katurian2]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#20

Posted: 7/31/06 at 1:00pm

Yes! It's so great that this show is becoming more widespread, despite what some may call "questionable content". The writing in it is beautiful and worthy of attention.

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#21

Posted: 7/31/06 at 1:03pm

Well, I haven't seen many plays. But the one that has affected me the most was Grace's in "Faith Healer."

[pab]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#22

Posted: 7/31/06 at 1:18pm

There are SO MANY but here are the first three that came to mind:

Alton Scales' 'White Man's Leavings' monologue from "The Sign in Sidney Bruistein's Window"

Tom's often done 'Opium dens' monologue from "The Glass Menagerie"

Hissom's long monologue from Yasmina Reza's "Art"

"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"

[Mythus]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#23

Posted: 7/31/06 at 1:33pm

Any of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's from R&G Are Dead.

[MargoChanning]

re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play#24

Posted: 7/31/06 at 2:38pm

The monologue that had the most devastating impact on an audience that I've ever seen is the 10 minute "There was no air"/Beau Willie monologue done by the Lady in Red from FOR COLORED GIRLS.... The entire audience was weeping by the end and there was even audible sobbing -- from women AND men.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney