Best Monologues in a Broadway Play

[theonlyone]

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

Which one are your favorites?

[FosseBoi]

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

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

[OnMyWay]

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

Frances' in the second act of History Boys.

[Lavieboheme3090]

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

The stories in The Pillow Man

[CurtainPullDowner]

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

Check out Brian Friel
Molly Sweeney has great stuff

[Katurian2]

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.

[queendork]

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]

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]

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.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

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]

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]

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.

[singinswinga]

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

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

[JudasIscariot]

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

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

[muscle23ftl]

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

The priest's prayers in Doubt. Brilliant.

[Mamie]

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.

[jasonf]

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)

[Mike3]

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]

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.

[gustof777]

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!

[Katurian2]

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.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

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]

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"

[Mythus]

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

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

[MargoChanning]

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.