Monologue Help

[wickedfan11]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 4:41pm

Hi. I need some help finding a monologue for an audition on Monday. I'd prefer it to be from a musical. It needs to be 1-2 minutes long and it can be either dramatic, comedic, or a mix.

Thanks!

[WOSQ]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 4:51pm

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.

[wickedfan11]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 5:01pm

I'm thinking about doing this from Gypsy:
Rose: I thought you did it for me, mama. I thought you did it for me mama. I though you made a no talent ox into a star because you like doing things the hard way Mama. And you have no talent. Not what I call talent, Miss Gypsy Rose Lee! I made you...I made you! And you wanna know why? You wanna know what I did it for? 'Cause I was born too soon and started too late, that's why. What I got in me (begins to chuckle), I could have been better than any of you! What I got in me, what I been holding down inside of me, if I ever let it go, there wouldn't have been signs big enough. There wouldn't have been lights bright enough.

But it's not quite long enough. Is there maybe 10 seconds or so of dialogue before that in the show that fit in the beginning of that monologue/

[PRFRMR20]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 5:07pm

How old are you?

[wickedfan11]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 5:08pm

High School.

[PRFRMR20]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 5:10pm

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

[wickedfan11]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 5:12pm

What about the opening monologue of RENT?

"We begin on Christmas Eve....Smile!"?

[PRFRMR20]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 8:40pm

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

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 8:45pm

Don't do a monologue from a musical.

Let me repeat that, Max Bialystock-style:

DON'T DO A MONOLOGUE FROM A MUSICAL!

Updated On: 3/11/09 at 08:45 PM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/12/09 at 5:46am

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!)

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/12/09 at 11:02am

Cervantes has a monologue in MAn of La Mancha, It is about man's inhumanity to fellow man and being on ones deathbed and asking why? Not why you were dying but why you were ever born. It is short however, like most monologues in musicals and of course it leads into I am I Don Quixote reprise.