01/05/2013
MONOLOGUE Options for “Singin’ in the Rain”
PREFERRED CHOICE: ANY MONOLOGUE THAT YOU BRING ON YOUR OWN THAT YOU HAVE PREPARED AND MEMORIZED
ACCEPTABLE ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS BELOW (Memorization preferred but not required)
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Girls Monologue Acceptable Option # 1 (Kathy Seldon)
Oh…I don’t go to the movies much. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. Oh, no offense. But you see, I’m not interested in the movies. I guess it’s entertaining enough for the masses, but the personalities on the screen don’t impress me. I mean, they don’t act – they just make a lot of dumb show… well, you know. (SHE does an elaborate imitation of movie pantomime) Like that. Pantomime on the screen isn’t acting. Acting means great parts – wonderful lines –speaking those glorious words…Shakespeare, Ibsen… You see, I’m actress on the stage! I’m, uh… not in a play right now. But I will be – I’m going to New York…and… oh, you can laugh if you want to – but at least the stage is a dignified, honorable profession. And what have you got to be so conceited about? You’re nothing but a shadow on film – you’re not flesh and blood! You keep away! Just because you’re a big movie star – wild parties – swimming pools – you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet. Well, don’t you touch me!
Girls Monologue Acceptable Option #2 (Lina Lamont)
Zelda, you know, you have to see things with your own eyes to believe it. If you hadn’t opened my eyes, I’d still be walkin’ around in the dark. You’re a real pal. This business is a jungle. It’s dog-eat-dog. Vultures wating to eat your carcass before you’re dead. And how about that little snake in the grass? You sure were right. And I wasn’t gonna believe you. Can you imagine what lies she must have told him about me? Me -- his fee-an-see! The girl he’s gonna’ marry! You read all about it. But I’m not takin’ this lyin’ down. Lina Lamont is no fool, you know. Think of all those people when they find out they’re using someone else’s voice instead of mine – and what’s wrong with my voice anyway?!
Girls Monologue Acceptable Option #3 (Dora Bailey)
Hello, out there! This is Dora Bailey talking to you in front of Graumann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Every star is here to make Monumental Pictures’ premiere of “The Royal Rascal” the outstanding event of1927. We are breathlessly awaiting the arrival of its two great stars, Lina Lamont and Don Lockwood. The stars keep pouring in, anticipating the arrival of tonight’s glorious stars. Here come Mr. RF Simpson, the man who gave you all the Lockwood-Lamont pictures, and his lovely wife. They are accompanied by their famous director, Roscoe Dexter … and by Don Lockwood’s closest friend and confidante, Cosmo Brown. And… HERE THEY ARE! Ladies and gentlemen, you should see this gorgeous couple. It’s no wonder they are a household name all over the world. Like bacon and eggs.
-- LOCKWOOD AND LAMONT.
Don, you can tell me confidentially. Are these rumors true that wedding bells are soon to ring for you and Lina?
Boys Monologue Acceptable Option #1 (Don Lockwood)
(Don, as Pierre, enters, looking very fraught. He sees his love and comes to her) Yvonne! ‘Tis Cupid himself that called me here, and I smitten by his arrow, must come charging to your side, despite the threats of Madame LaGuillotine. Imperious princess of the night, I love you.
(Kissing her again and again on the arm, the shoulder, etc. in a transport of passion) I love you – I love you – I love you – I love you – I love you – I love you – I love you – I love you – I love you – I love you – I love you – I love you. Yvonne! Captured by Rouge Noir of the Purple Terror? Oh – Oh, my sword! I must fly to her side. Yvonne, Yvonee – my own!
(Suddenly sees and then Fences an oncoming Bad Guy)
Boys Monologue Acceptable Option #2 (Cosmo Brown)
(Reading) “First talking picture novelty – “The Jazz Singer” – all-time smash end of first week.”
Hey Don! What? You’re doing a new picture titled “The Dueling Cavalier”?! Don’t tell me—You’re a French aristocrat – she’s a simple girl of the people – and she won’t even give you a tumbril. Why bother to shoot this picture? Why don’t you just release the last one under a new title? If you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all.
Say what? Three weeks later and you’re still thinking about Kathy Selden? She IS the first dame who hasn’t fallen for your line since you were four. Come on now, Don. Snap out of it! You can’t let a little thing like this get you down. Why you’re Don Lockwood, aren’t you? And Don Lockwood’s an actor, isn’t he? Well, what’s the first thing an actor learns? The show must go on. Come rain, come shine, come sleet, come snow, the show must go on. So remember -- Short people have long faces. Long people have short faces. Big people have little humor and little people have no humor at all! And in the words of that immortal bard, Samuel J. Snodgrass, as he was about to be led to the guillotine: MAKE EM LAUGH!
Boys Monologue Acceptable Option #3 (R.F. Simpson)
Don, Lina, come here. All right everybody, save it! Tell them to go home!! We’re shutting down for a few weeks! What’s the matter? “The Jazz Singer”, that’s what’s the matter. “The Jazz Singer”. It’s a sensation. The public is screaming for more! More what? Talking pictures! Talking pictures! We should have thought of this freak thing at this studio! I told you talking pictures were a menace, but no one would listen to me. Dexter, we’ve got to put our best foot forward. We’re going to make “The Dueling Cavalier” as a talking picture. Every studio is jumping on the bandwagon, Roscoe. Allthe theatres are putting in sound equipment. We don’t want to be left out of it. What do you mean you don’t know anything about this gadget? What do you have to know? It’s a picture! You do what you always did… You just add talking to it. Don, believe me, it will be a sensation:
“Lamont and Lockwood” -- They talk!!
