Winning monologues in today's world (and how to prepare for them (2020)) / Glenn Alterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alterman, Glenn, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auditions.

Monologues.

Physical Description:

153 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Hanover, NH : Smith and Kraus, [2020]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Monologue Audition

The Audition Monologue

Monologue Mistakes

Basic Monologue Preparation

Rehearsing The Monologue

Approaching The A Udition

About The Audition

The Ten Steps To Successful Monologue Auditions

ch. 2 What Directors Specifically Look For At Monologue Auditions

Interviews With Directors / Joan Kane

ch. 3 What Casting Directors Look For At Monologue Auditions

Risa Bramon Garcia's Advice For Monologues (And All) Auditions

Interview With Casting Director Larry Tolan

ch. 4 Women's Monologues

Marlene

(Comedic) Any age

(Marlene has just found out to her horror that her profile has disappeared from Facebook)

Sharon

(Dramatic) 30's to 40's

(Sharon confronts her boss in a bathroom at a Christmas party)

Marybeth

(Dramatic) 30 to 40

(Marybeth tries to explain to her husband how a terrible accident happened that day)

Charlene

(Serio-comedic) 18 to 21

(Charlene tells Mark, a boy she always had a crush on, how special that last night they partied together was.)

Lorraine

(Dramatic) 40's

(Lorraine talks about how difficult her life has been raising a son with a disability. And how it toned out)

Kerry

(Dramatic) Late teens, early 20's

(At the Christmas gathering, Kerry feels she has to let her grand-father know that talking politics at the dinner table is upsetting)

Cindy

(Serio-comedic) 20's, 30's

(Cindy, a stripper, talks to a customer who is upset about the amount that was charged on his credit card)

Vernice

(From Nobody's Flood)

(Dramatic) 50 to 60

(Vernice tries to explain to her son how her husband is trying to make her feel crazy)

Francine

(Dramatic) 50's

(Francine tells her director friend, Hank about what it's like getting older as an actress)

Essie

(Comedic) 30's to 40's

(Essie is a stage manager on a daytime serial. An inner monologue, an angry tirade)

Tasia

(Dramatic) 30's

(Tasia tells her close friend what it's was like trying to maintain her dignity growing up poor in the projects)

Meredith

(From Tourists of the Mindfield)

(Serio-comedic) 20's to 30's

(Meredith tells her cousin how difficult it was dealing with her ailing grandfather)

Amy

(Dramatic) early 20's

(Amy is very upset about how her mother just treated their waitress)

Leslie

(From God In Bed)

(Dramatic) 30 and older

(Leslie tries to connect with another woman at a homeless shelter)

Alexandria

(Alexandria is annoyed because her boyfriend constantly treats her like she's his mother)

Leanne

(From Tourists of The Mindfield)

(Serio-comedic, an inner monologue) 20's to 30's (LeAnne harbors some dark feelings for her husband)

Lenore

(Serio-comedic) Any age

(Lenore is overjoyed about the penny she found on the street a month ago)

Sybil

(From Solace)

(Dramatic) 50's to 60's

(Sybil remembers what her early family life was like

- to the audience)

Renee

(Dramatic) A teenager

(Renee tells a detective about an older man who tried to seduce her)

Terry

(From After)

(Serio-comedic) 40's to 50's

(Terry has just met a friend of her husband's at his funeral. Here, she talks about what it was like having a gay husband)

Sally

(Dramatic) mid 20's to 40's

(Sally tells her new "best friend" what her life is like living with her abusive husband)

Jane

(From Love Me, Love My Work)

(Jane is upset because one of the characters from one of her plays has changed his opinion of the play she's just finished)

Gloria (1)

(From Truthville)

(Comedic) 40's to 50's

(Gloria talks about her son and his girlfriend, who she definitely doesn't like)

Bonnie

(Serio-comedic) 17, 18 years old

(Bonnie anxiously asks a plastic surgeon for a complete physical make over)

Giselle

(From I Dreamt I Was Dreaming)

(Dramatic) Any age

(Giselle talks about missing her mother)

Greta

(Comedic) early 20's

(Greta, who is quite intoxicated, tells her mother how she got home from Boston for Christmas vacation)

Gloria (2)

(Gloria talks about how she took care of the husband she never liked)

Gina

(Dramatic) A teenager)

(She's speaks sadly about her difficult day)

Isabella

(Dramatic) Teens

(Isabella tries to connect with a boy she just met at a party)

Janet

(Serio-comedic) 30's

(Janet talks about her boyfriend)

ch. 5 Men's Monologues

Edmund

(Serio-comedic) 30's to 50's)

(Edmund, a horse and buggy driver in Central Park, tells a customer about the day he picked up George Clooney and his wife)

Victor

(Dramatic) mid 20's to 30's

(Victor returned from Iraq injured and disabled, but a miracle in his life has allowed him to be joyful on this day)

Ronan

(Ronan, standing in the doorway to his house, tells off his exgirlfriend, who posted intimate photos of the two of them online)

Ted

(Serio-comedic) 30's to 50's

(Ted, a comedian having a bad night. An inner monologue)

Harrison

(Harrison apologies to his young daughter after lashing out at her because he was upset about something he saw on the TV)

Brian

(Dramatic) 30's to 50's

(Brian tells a news reporter about how a flood in the Bahamas destroyed his home and what happened to his wife)

Ray

(Ray a racist, shares his true feelings to his wife about their next door neighbors)

Glenn

(Glenn tenderly remembers the night he danced with Maureen Stapleton a number of years ago)

Mort

(From Goin' Round on Rock Solid Ground)

(Comedic) 30'a to 40's

(Mort and his friend, Harry, two small time Brooklyn crooks, are about to do their first drug deal that Harry has arranged. Mort is very nervous)

Lawrence

(Dramatic) 40 and older

(Lawrence, a District Attorney, has just received new evidence that a man he prosecuted 11 years ago is really innocent. Here he visits the man in jail)

Nate

(Serio-comedic) 30'a to 50's

(Nate recalls a terrifying incident at the dentist's office. An inner monologue)

Ned

(Ned, a bit of an oddball, tells a relative how to deal with annoying telemarketers)

Harold

(Harold, an off-beat professor of Judaism, discusses death and the afterlife with his students)

Rob

(Serio-comedic) 40's to 50s

(A commercial talent agent talks to a beginning actor about his future with his agency)

Charlie

(Charlie, who can be difficult to get along with, talks to his girlfriend, about trying to make amends with her father)

John

(Dramatic.) 30's to 40's

(John is having a tough time saying goodbye to a close friend)

Bernie

(Dramatic) 60's and older

(Bernie remembers the old days in Miami)

Jimmy

(From Second Tiers)

(Jimmy Olson, Superman's ex partner, tells his husband, Robin, Batman's ex-partner, about his concern about Superman flying into Key West, where they both now live)

Mel

(Comedic) 20's to 40's

(Mel introduces himself to us and tells us about his unusual life)

(Harold shares a memory from his youth about a night he spent on the beach with another boy)

Max

(From The Put Off's)

(Dramatic) over 50

(Max talks to a group of fellow procrastinators)

Neil

(Dramatic) 40's to 50's

(Neil lovingly remembers his grandmother, who owned a bar in Brooklyn)

Sam

(From Overhead Voice)

(Sam finally gets to tell his father something he always wanted to tell him)

Herbert

(From The Boy, Ben)

(Serio-comedic) Mid 50's

(Herbert recalls the day he first met young Ben while standing in the rain)

Rick

(From Talking to Strangers in Bars)

(After having a couple of drinks with a woman he's just met at a bar, he puts the moves on her)

Harry

(From Goin `Round on Rock Solid Ground)'

(Mort and Harry, two small time Brooklyn crooks are about to do their first drug deal. Harry is trying to calm Mort who is freaking out)

Louie

(Comedic) 20's

(Louie meets a very sexy lady at a club. And she reveals something that really gets to him)

Randolph

(What Randolph is thinking while standing still at his station in a high end restaurant. He's a long time, professional waiter)

Jeffrey

(Comedic) 30's to 50's

(A man excitedly talks to a new client. Energetic)

Ralph

Dramatic (30's to 40's)

(Ralph tells off his sister who has just destructively meddled in his marriage.)

Overdone Monologues.

ISBN:

9781575259468

157525946X

OCLC:

1157444752