Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#1re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:43pmQuite a few of the monologues in both parts of "Angels in America".
#2re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 6/5/06 at 1:20amFrances' in the second act of History Boys.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#4re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 6/5/06 at 1:48am
Check out Brian Friel
Molly Sweeney has great stuff
#5re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
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
Understudy Joined: 6/28/06
#6re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#7re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/30/06 at 11:13pmNot 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#8re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
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.
#9re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:31amSteppenwolf is doing "Pillowman" this season. It sounds way cool. I'm sorry I missed the Broadway production.
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#10re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:33amI 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#11re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:40amI 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.
#12re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 1:21amSamuel Byck in Assassins has some great ones. Or, at least one great one.
JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#13re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 2:47amI like the monologue where Johnny finds out that Michael is dying in Tick...Tick...BOOM!
#14re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 2:48am
The priest's prayers in Doubt. Brilliant.
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#15re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 4:45amAlso 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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mamie4 5/14/03
#16re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 9:43amI 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)
#17re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
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.
#18re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:53pmWow- 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#19re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:55pmisn't it great how many productions there will be this year? Steppenwolf, the Wilma in Philly, yours in Denver. Such a powerful show!
#20re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 1:00pmYes! 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.
#21re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 1:03pmWell, I haven't seen many plays. But the one that has affected me the most was Grace's in "Faith Healer."
#22re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#23re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 1:33pmAny of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's from R&G Are Dead.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#24re: Best Monologues in a Broadway Play
Posted: 7/31/06 at 2:38pmThe 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.
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