Audition Pre-Chosen Monologues
Hello! Please use one of the monologues below for your audition if you do NOT want to choose your own monologue at home. Give the monologues a read, and then choose what is best for you! Performing in front of your family can help with audition jitters.
HAPPY ACTING!
Monologue Choice 1: From “Cinderella”
CINDERELLA: Every girl is dreaming and wishing she were at the ball tonight. I can’t be there because of my Stepmother… Well, somebody has to mind the house. What can I do? Leave my Stepfamily? I don’t think if Father were alive he would like that very much. Why don’t you believe in wishes and dreams – that once in a while something marvelous and magical can happen? I AM wishing – in the name of every young girl who ever wanted to go to a dance and was told she couldn’t. I am wishing that by some magic or “fol-derol and fiddledy dee” that I could go to the ball tonight.
Monologue Choice 2: From “Sleeping Beauty”
MALEFICENT: Well what an attractive gathering we have here. I spy royalty and my, my, my - nobility, the gentry and how quaint, four little Oompah Loompahs who escaped from the set of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate factory! I felt quite slighted not receiving an invitation of my own. I’d hoped that it was merely an oversight. Now I can tell by the looks on your faces that I just wasn’t wanted. Pity. Then I’d best be on my way. Oh - - and to show that I bear no hard feelings, I too will bestow a gift on the child‚ Listen well, all of you!(change tone of voice) The Princess will indeed grow in grace & beauty and be loved by all who know her. But, before the sun sets on her 16th birthday, she shall prick her finger on a spinning wheel - and die!
Monologue Choice 3: From “Finding Nemo”
DORY: No. No, you can’t. …STOP! Please don’t go away. Please? No one’s ever stuck with me for so long before. And if you leave…if you leave… I just, I remember things better with you! I do, look! P. Sherman, forty-two…forty-two… I remember it, I do. It’s there, I know it is, because when I look at you, I can feel it. And…and I look at you, and I…and I’m home! Please…I don’t want that to go away. I don’t want to forget.
Monologue Choice 4: From: “Shrek”
DONKEY: Can I just say? That was incredible! Man, they were trippin’ over themselves to get away from you. I liked that. Say, you lost or something? You’re trying to figure out the best route to Duloc? I know Duloc! You gotta let me show you the way, because I am like a GPS with fur! C’mon, nobody’s fine on their own. Not when you look like we do. Man this place is goin’ Stepford! We gotta join forces. Otherwise they’re gonna lock me up. I can not go back in a cage. I don’t know if I mentioned it but I did 6 years in solitary for impersonating a piñata.
Monologue Choice 5: From “Aladdin”
JAFAR: (Speaking to Iago) You think I am PLEASED? “Pleased” to be playing nursemaid to a spoiled princess? “Pleased” to be keeping tabs on every petty thief in Agrabah? While day in and day out that blithering idiot remains Sultan! I am working on an old document. With a NICE new paragraph I just added. Listen to this: “Should an unmarried Royal Princess, who is sole heir to the throne, fail to choose a husband within the time allotted for such selection, the Sultan’s highest ranking official –that would be me – will immediately become betrothed to the princess and will himself inherit all the rights. Privileges and powers of the Sultan! (Evil Laugh)
Monologue Choice 6: From “You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown”
SCHROEDER: I'm sorry to have to say it to your face, Lucy, but it's true. You're a very crabby person. I know your crabbiness has probably become so natural to you now that you're not even aware when you're being crabby, but it's true just the same. You're a very crabby person and you're crabby to just about everyone you meet. Now I hope you don't mind my saying this, Lucy, and I hope you're take it in the spirit that it's meant. I think we should be very open to any opportunity to learn more about ourselves. I think Socrates was very right when he said that one of the first rules for anyone in life is 'Know Thyself'. Well, I guess I've said about enough. I hope I haven't offended you or anything. (awkward exit)