Favorite Soliloquy

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Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/13/06 at 8:13pm

Does anybody have a specific favorite soliloquy? I can be musical or not.

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#2

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/13/06 at 9:00pm

Valjean's Soliloquy. :)

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#3

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/13/06 at 9:01pm

I'd have to only go with only musical ones, sorry (not that up on my Shakespeare).

"Soliloquy" (Carousel)
"Javert's Soliloquy/Suicide" (Les Miserables)
Does "Epiphiny" count? If so, that one as well.

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#4

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/13/06 at 9:04pm

This is very cliche, but I really enjoy "Halloween" from Rent.

#5

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/13/06 at 9:21pm

I always love the end of Jersey Boys where they each talk about what happened to them in recent day.

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#6

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/13/06 at 9:25pm

All time FAVORITE monolgue/soliloquy is Lady Percy from Henry IV Part II...

#7

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/13/06 at 9:29pm

Coalhouse's Soliloquy in Ragtime

Javert's as well in Les Mis.

#8

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/13/06 at 9:31pm

Charity's (as done by Gwen Verdon)

#9

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/13/06 at 10:39pm

i see that les mis is popular - mine is "empty chairs at empty tables" by marius (michael ball's my fav)

#10

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/13/06 at 11:37pm

"Twin Soliloquies", South Pacific

#11

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/13/06 at 11:51pm

I love Othello's

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#12

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/14/06 at 12:05am

Musical- Carousel, hands down

Play- Prospero's at the end of the The Tempest. Simply beautiful; I cry just reading it.

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#13

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:18pm

Favorite Soliloquy? Why "Soliloquy" itself! (You know, from Carousel?)

#14

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:27pm

Roxie Harts.

#15

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:27pm

Roxie Harts.

#16

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:31pm

You are so original jv.

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#17

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:39pm

"Lot's Wife" from CAROLINE

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#18

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:48pm

Charity's Soliloguy (as done by Miss Christina Applegate)
:)

#19

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/14/06 at 5:03pm

"Valjean's Soliloquy" and "Apology to a Cow" (Batboy)

#20

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/14/06 at 6:04pm

In a musical, wouldn't any solo where the actor was alone onstage constitute as a soliloquy?

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#21

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/14/06 at 7:21pm

I thought the thread title was inquiring as to which is the best rendition of SOLILOQUY - which means that for me, there is only one SOLILOQUY

"My boy Bill..." from CAROUSEL.

#22

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/15/06 at 6:44am

I have twin favorites(both are a bit cliche)

I Don't Know How TO Love Him - Jesus Christ Superstar
Back To Before - Ragtime

Duets that serve as soliloqueys

People Like Us - Wild Party
How Could I Ever Know - The Seacret Garden

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#23

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/15/06 at 6:46am

"Soliloquy" from Carousel.

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#24

re: Favorite Soliloquy

Posted: 3/15/06 at 7:18am

Definitely Gwen Verdon version of Charity and Roxie (though I don't know if Roxie counts since she's talking to the audience) also I think that "Fire Within Me" from Little Women was very moving.

good point daspazoo about musical characters on stage.

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