Synchro101
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A different kind of Belle monologueHey, I have auditions for a local production of BatB in about a month an a half and I need a 1-2 minute monolouge. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a Belle monologue that wasn't the usual sugary or bright type but one that showed the intellectual, even snobby side of her. I'd be forever grateful if someone could help.
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The Duchess of Mint
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Re: A different kind of Belle monologueDear Synchro101,
I'm not really familiar with many monologues, but I know about a few intellectual female musical theatre characters who may have monologues.
I think that you're wise to want to show that you can capture Belle's more intellectual, self-interested side. Belle is indeed a sunny type of girl, and yet, she's not like the other women in her village. She has to take care of both herself and her father, and so her own concerns, and her own ambitions, are important, because if she doesn't advocate for herself, who will do so?
I believe that the following characters embody an intellectual spirit which is similar to that of Belle:
Fiona from "Brigadoon": She doesn't want to marry for desperate reasons.
Chava from "Fiddler on the Roof": She's in love with an intellectual who isn't of her own faith.
Gigi from "Gigi": Gigi may not seem like an intellectual, but she doesn't agree with a family lifestyle which is being forced upon her, and she isn't afraid to say so.
Dolly Levi from "Hello, Dolly!": She isn't especially intellectual, but she believes that her ways are the best, and she isn't afraid to persuade other people to believe that generosity and sociability are better than stubbornness.
Anna from "The King & I": Anna thinks that her ways are the best, and she believes in learning, and in teaching. She's more outspoken than other people think that she should be.
Marian the Librarian from "The Music Man": She is serious and smart, and she even gets to be a sort of a sleuth.
Nellie from "South Pacific": Nellie might seem more shallow, and less self-centered, than Belle, but, like Belle, she isn't afraid to love someone whom other people are suspicious of. Nellie loves Emile, just as Belle loves The Beast.
I hope that the aforementioned ideas are helpful.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
| Synchro101 wrote: | | Hey, I have auditions for a local production of BatB in about a month an a half and I need a 1-2 minute monolouge. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a Belle monologue that wasn't the usual sugary or bright type but one that showed the intellectual, even snobby side of her. I'd be forever grateful if someone could help. |
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Synchro101
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Re: A different kind of Belle monologue | The Duchess of Mint wrote: | Dear Synchro101,
I'm not really familiar with many monologues, but I know about a few intellectual female musical theatre characters who may have monologues.
I think that you're wise to want to show that you can capture Belle's more intellectual, self-interested side. Belle is indeed a sunny type of girl, and yet, she's not like the other women in her village. She has to take care of both herself and her father, and so her own concerns, and her own ambitions, are important, because if she doesn't advocate for herself, who will do so?
I believe that the following characters embody an intellectual spirit which is similar to that of Belle:
Fiona from "Brigadoon": She doesn't want to marry for desperate reasons.
Chava from "Fiddler on the Roof": She's in love with an intellectual who isn't of her own faith.
Gigi from "Gigi": Gigi may not seem like an intellectual, but she doesn't agree with a family lifestyle which is being forced upon her, and she isn't afraid to say so.
Dolly Levi from "Hello, Dolly!": She isn't especially intellectual, but she believes that her ways are the best, and she isn't afraid to persuade other people to believe that generosity and sociability are better than stubbornness.
Anna from "The King & I": Anna thinks that her ways are the best, and she believes in learning, and in teaching. She's more outspoken than other people think that she should be.
Marian the Librarian from "The Music Man": She is serious and smart, and she even gets to be a sort of a sleuth.
Nellie from "South Pacific": Nellie might seem more shallow, and less self-centered, than Belle, but, like Belle, she isn't afraid to love someone whom other people are suspicious of. Nellie loves Emile, just as Belle loves The Beast.
I hope that the aforementioned ideas are helpful.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
| Synchro101 wrote: | | Hey, I have auditions for a local production of BatB in about a month an a half and I need a 1-2 minute monolouge. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a Belle monologue that wasn't the usual sugary or bright type but one that showed the intellectual, even snobby side of her. I'd be forever grateful if someone could help. |
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I never thought of that but now that you mention it Anna's dialouge is a definite possibility.
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ConverseSneaker
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Are monologues from musicals allowed? Because if it has to be from a play, then that rules out all of DOM's interesting suggestions.
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Synchro101
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| ConverseSneaker wrote: | | Are monologues from musicals allowed? Because if it has to be from a play, then that rules out all of DOM's interesting suggestions. |
It's pretty much anything goes I think. All that really matters (at least to me) is that it's of good merit. I've been looking at a monologue from "The Fantasticks" but I'm still open to suggestions!
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Joshua
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| Synchro101 wrote: | | ConverseSneaker wrote: | | Are monologues from musicals allowed? Because if it has to be from a play, then that rules out all of DOM's interesting suggestions. |
It's pretty much anything goes I think. All that really matters (at least to me) is that it's of good merit. I've been looking at a monologue from "The Fantasticks" but I'm still open to suggestions! |
Not Luisa's about the hair and the bird and stuff, huh? I hate that one.
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Synchro101
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| Joshua wrote: |
Not Luisa's about the hair and the bird and stuff, huh? I hate that one. |
... Yeah.
I know it's kind of played out, but I'm at a loss here. I was also thinking about this one but I'm not sure that it's right:
Well, Tommy has proposed to me again. Tommy really does nothing but propose to me. He proposed to me last night in the Music-room, when I was quite unprotected, as there was an elaborate trio going on. I didn't dare to make the smallest repartee, I need hardly tell you. If I had, it would have stopped the music at once. Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. Then he proposed to me in broad daylight this morning, in front of that dreadful statue of Achilles. Really, the things that go on in front of that work of art are quite appalling. The police should interfere. At luncheon I saw by the glare in his eyes that he was going to propose again, and I just managed to check him in time by assuring him that I was a bimetallist. Fortunately I don't know what bimetallism means. And I don't believe anybody else does either. But the observation crushed Tommy for ten minutes. He looked quite shocked. And then Tommy is so annoying in the way he proposes. If he proposed at the top of his voice, I should not mind so much. That might produce some effect on the public. But he does it in a horrid confidential way. When Tommy wants to be romantic he talks to one just like a doctor. I am very fond of Tommy, but his methods of proposing are quite out of date. I wish, Gertrude, you would speak to him, and tell him that once a week is quite often enough to propose to any one, and that it should always be done in a matter that attracts some attention
Still open to suggestions!
P.S. Joshua, your icon made my day.
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