[myia]

PLEASE HELP ME I FINALLY HAVE MY AUDITION FOR STAGE SCHOOL ON FEB THE 22ND. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT I DON'T HAVE A MONOLOGUE SO IF ANY ONE KNOWS OF A GOOD MONOLOGUE FOR A MATURE TEEN THATS JUST UNDER 3MINS LONG, PLEASE PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME.

THANKS
MYIA

[Magic2Do]

Is it comedy or drama? Dialect or no?

[Ulla Dance Again!]

I know a few... Nora's monologue from Brighton Beach Memoirs is pretty good... I can PM it to you if you'd like.

[seeemilysing]

If you need something serio-comic one of Cherie's monolagues from "Bus Stop" are good I've gotten into lots of shows using those. They can be slightly overdone but I've always had good luck with em...(If you do one of those read the lines in your own voice, don't use a southern dialect) My favorite is where Cherie is talking to Elma...It starts out at "Bo came in the night I was singing that old black magic..." and ends at "I got a funny feeling deep down inside, I'm gonna end up in montana". Cut the Elma lines.

If you need something more classical try either Dorine from "Tartuffe" by Moliere (do the "Yes so he tells us but sir it seems to me such pride goes very ill with piety" one, because her other long one is way overused) or one of Louka's from "Arms and the Man" by Bernard Shaw. ("how easy it is to talk! Men never seem to grow up...They all have school boys ideas." That one is fun and feisty!!! )

For dramatic....Hmmm...All I can think of right now is Babe from "Crimes of the Heart" cuz I'm doing it. Her big speech to Meg about shooting her husband, but that play is getting pretty popular now so that might be overdone.

Hope that gives you some ideas...I hate picking monolagues for auditions. It is definately the worst part of auditioning. Work on getting 4 monolagues memorized. 2 contemporary one dramatic one comic and 2 classical one dramatic and one comic. Then you'll have them ready for auditions and you won't have to scramble!!!