Monologue Help

Musicals rarely have monologues. Invariably they turn into songs before very long. The number of good monologues from musicals can basically be counted on a pair of hands and you'd have fingers left over.

Then there's the little matter of age, gender and other details.

Go for one from a play and start reading now if you want to be ready for Monday.

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How old are you?

Can you relate to that monologue? Can you relate to being a mother? A failed career? Jealousy of your daughters? Putting your heart into one thing your entire life that ends in failure?

...Probably not the best monologue

Are you now a male???

Anyway let's stop here...

What are you auditioning for and why would you want to do a monologue from a musical? Monologues from musicals in general don't have any substance or "climax"/excitement, they are usually just exposition (i.e. the Rent monologue you just mentioned)... If they didn't specifically ask for a monologue from a musical, why not find one from a play. I am sure you don't feel as comfortable with it, but you are in school and you should be learning and it would be a great learning opportunity.

I am guessing you are female, so why not find a monologue that fits the show from a female character around your age... no matter how the auditions turns out you will 1) feel good that you put your all into the audition, as opposed to going the easy way out and 2) have a new good monologue that you could use for future auditions!?!?!

EDIT: I forgot to also say "one that you connect to"

Updated On: 3/11/09 at 08:40 PM

That's why musicals exist:

When words are no longer enough: we sing.
When singing is no longer enough: we dance.

Thus: no monologues.


And a Less than a week is an awful short time to get a monologue audiditon ready. There are so many wonderful monologues from plays offering many acting opportunities.


PS. The only other one I could think of is Dolly Levi from Hello, Dolly....but then I realized that the good stuff is from the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder. And you are too young for that, too. (Even though I had it in my repetoire when I was in HS. What did I know? Note: HS was a LONG time ago!)

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