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ok i went to an audition and totally nailed it!! but now i need a monolog!

can anyone help me with it please just type the lines in and i will try to get back to all of you and tell you if it went well!

Answer 1

My favorite is from Fool For Love by Sam Shepard.  It&#039;s about a couple that have a rocky relationship.  There are only four characters, (May, Eddie, Old Man, and Martin) so it is a pretty quick read.  It always helps to read the whole thing so you get the character and their motivation.  

The character May is a  young woman, seems a little naive, yet worldly at the same time. The audience learns A LOT about the relationship in one area where May talks (she reveals that her father is also the father of the guy she has a rocky relationship with, and her dad led a double life).  The information she gives is spliced by a line here or there by the Old Man (the father).  But what he says in that section is irrelevant, so it can be skipped over (that&#039;s what I did a LONG time ago in college).  It&#039;s powerful.

It&#039;s far too long for me to type right now... but I am sure you could get a copy at the library.  I started with the lines, &quot;Don&#039;t try to pass it off on me!  You got it all turned around, Eddie.  You got it all turned around...&quot;  Then I skipped to the next section with, &quot;You want me to finish the story for you Eddie?  Huh?  You want me to finish this story?  See, my mother - the pretty red-haired woman in the little white house with the red awning, was desperately in love with the old man.  Wasn&#039;t she, Eddie?  You could tell that right away.  See it in her eyes.....&quot;

Good luck!

Answer 2

I&#039;ve done this one.  Blanche is kinda crazy, so it&#039;s fun and easy to get into.  I&#039;d at least read a synopsis of A Streetcar Named Desire or whatever play the monologue you choose to do comes from though.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

by Tennessee Williams

Blanche tries to explain to her younger sister, Stella, why she shouldn&#039;t stay married to her husband, Stanley Kowalski.

BLANCHE:    May I speak plainly?  Well, if you&#039;ll forgive me, he&#039;s common.  You can&#039;t have forgotten that much of our bringing up, Stella, to just suppose that any part of a gentleman is in his nature!  Not one particle, no!  Oh, if he was just - ordinary!  Just plain - but good and wholesome, but - no.  There&#039;s something downright - bestial about him!  You&#039;re hating me saying this aren&#039;t you?

Well, he acts like an animal, has an animal&#039;s habits!  Eats like one moves like one, talks like one!  There&#039;s even something - sub-human - something not quite to the stage of humanity yet!  Yes, something - ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I&#039;ve seen in - anthropological studies!  

Thousands and thousands of years have passed him by, and there he is - Stanley Kowalski - survivor of the stone age!  Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle!  And you - you here - waiting for him!  Maybe he&#039;ll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you!  That is, if kisses have been discovered yet!  Night falls and all the other apes gather!  There in front of the cave, all grunting like him, and swilling and gnawing and hulking!  His poker night you call it - this party of apes!  Somebody growls - some creature snatches at something - the fight is on!  

Maybe we are a long way from being made in God&#039;s image, but Stella - my sister - there has been some progress since then!  Such things as art - as poetry and music - such kinds of new light have come into the world since then!  In some kind of people some tenderer feelings have had some little beginning!  That we have got to make grow!  And cling to, and hold as our flag!  

In this dark march toward whatever it is we are approaching...don&#039;t - don&#039;t hang back with the brutes!

Edit:  This one is from 42nd Street.  

42nd Street

By Mark Bramble

Dorothy Brock is an established - and aged - Broadway star, who broke her ankle in on opening night - and was replaced by a younger, prettier, and more talented chorus girl named Peggy Sawyer.

DOROTHY:

I&#039;ve got something to say to Miss Sawyer.

So, you&#039;re going to take my place. And you think you know how tough it must be for me? Do you really? I&#039;m not so sure. Ever since I was a tiny little girl and saw my first Julian Marsh show I&#039;ve dreamed of the day when I might work with the King of Broadway. And, my day had finally come, and I was filled with pride, joy and humility. Not to mention my happiness at a contract with a limousine, a redecorated dressing room, a private maid, and quite a hefty salary. When I started out for the theatre this afternoon, I wanted to tear your heart out. I wanted to hate you, I wanted to see you fail. You, singing my songs, wearing my costumes, playing my role! But sitting there in that theatre and watching you rehearse, I found I couldn&#039;t hate you... Because... you&#039;re good. Maybe even better than I would have been. The public wants youth, freshness, beauty, and Peggy, that&#039;s what you&#039;ve got. Only I&#039;m getting something too.

For ten years the theatre has kept me from the only thing I&#039;ve ever wanted. And it was a broken ankle that finally made me realize it. Pat Denning and I were married this morning! I have only one last wish for you, my dear. Get out there and be so swell you&#039;ll make me hate you.

Oh, and Sawyer, one more thing. I hope you won&#039;t mind, but it&#039;s about the next-to-closing number. You&#039;ve got to take it easy, you&#039;ve got to let the audience come to you.