Songs with monologues before them
Songs with monologues before them
musicalsinger20
Understudy Joined: 9/3/04
#0Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/2/05 at 11:06pm
I am doing a senior show next year and one of the songs (sung by a female) I need to do has to have a monologue before it. The only song that I know of is Nothing from Chorus Line. Does anyone know any other songs and from what show has a monologue preceding it?
Natasha
#1re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/2/05 at 11:12pmI've only seen Chicago as a movie but I know Roxie talked before she sang the song "Roxie." I'm not sure if this happened in the stage show or if this is the kind of monolouge you want but it's all I can think of now.
#2re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/2/05 at 11:14pmI can't think of any long monologues, but Rose's Turn from Gypsy is preceded by a very intense monologue. Another great song that has a monologue before it is "Before the Parade Passes By."
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#3re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/2/05 at 11:16pm"When It Ends" from LaChiusa's THE WILD PARTY.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
Chris32NY1
Swing Joined: 11/12/05
#6re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/2/05 at 11:44pm
How about these:
Maybe this Time from Cabaret
Time to start Living from Pippin
Streetsinger from Brooklyn
#7re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/2/05 at 11:47pmgreeneyedone probably suggested the best song preceded by a great monologue. I highly recommend doing the Roxie monologue followed by the song "Roxie."
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
musicalsaregreat
Understudy Joined: 4/13/05
#8re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/3/05 at 12:02am
100 Easy Ways from Wonderful Town
Emcee4ever
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#9re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/3/05 at 11:15amPerfectly Marvelous from Cabaret. Oh wait, it has Cliff in it. Maybe if you just skipped Cliff's lines? :)
whimsical
Stand-by Joined: 5/30/04
#10re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/3/05 at 12:09pmThere's always the Fantasticks...Luisa's monologue before Much More.
#11re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/3/05 at 1:49pm
Rose's Turn - Gypsy
Roxie - Chicago
Dance 10, Looks 3 - A Chorus Line
Nothing - A Chorus Line
Updated On: 12/3/05 at 01:49 PM
#12re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/3/05 at 4:06pm
Everything's Coming Up Roses - GYPSY
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#13re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/3/05 at 4:13pm"Wild and Reckless" from DRAT! THE CAT!
Blanche
Stand-by Joined: 10/1/04
#14re: Songs with monologues before them
Posted: 12/3/05 at 5:26pmDolly's monlogue about rejoining the human race prior to "Before the Parade Passes By" in "Hello Dolly".
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