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I chose this song as It suits my vocal range. It was also my audition song to fall back on as Its less vocally challenging as my other audition song from Brooklyn, being Once Upon A Time.

I was also able to find more on Queenie's character than I did for the other song so it wasnt going to be used.

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"Maybe I Like It This Way" from "The Wild Party"

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"Maybe I Like It This Way" from Andrew Lippa's "The Wild Party". Directed by Steve Edlund, Music Directed by Brian P. Kennedy, Stage Managed by Rebecca Suzuki.

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Maybe I like it this way- The Wild Party lyrics

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Maybe I like it this way- The Wild Party lyrics

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I know it's wrong

I know he's rough

I don't know what to do

But we've been through enough

I know it's time

And yet I play

Maybe I like it this way.

I see his pain

I hear his cry

He pulls me to the edge

But I don't ask him why

I understand

And I obey

Maybe I like it this way.

I like the way he laughs

His strange and silent stare

I like the way he moves

The way he's always there

The way he calls my name

The way he takes control

I like the way this man has stirred my soul:

"When I first met Burrs, he was grand. You understand?

But I was scared and awfully lonely.

Hungry. And hopeful. How could I know?"

Maybe tomorrow it comes crashing down

Maybe next week I'll find another clown

Maybe I'll try to go a different way

But look who's sitting here today.

If I could change

If I could grow

I'd ask for nothing more

And through that door I'd go

But if I'm through

Why do I stay?

Maybe he wants me

Maybe he needs me

Maybe he loves me

Maybe I like it this way.

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http://www.newlinetheatre.com/wildpartychapter.html Age: 20

http://www.newlinetheatre.com/wildpartychapter.html Physical characteristics:
Voice: Soft, soprano singer.
Posture: Straight and poised at times
Walk: Fast yet feminine and posied
Distinguishing marks: None
Physical Description: Short curly blonde hair, slim build. Beautiful. Looks more older and tired than her age would indicate.

Occupation:
Vaudeville dancer

Interests:
Dancing, Burrs (her abusive partner)

Character history:
Queenie...not young...not old..."what hips , what shoulders, what a back she had, her legs were built to drive men mad" A fading vaudeville chorine with sass, but appealing. She is the star of the piece. She is charismatic and appealing to both sexes and a believable party girl..."she likes her lovers violent and vicious. Queenie was sexually ambitious".

http://www.newlinetheatre.com/wildpartychapter.html

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One reason why I didnt choose this monologue is that she is a mother of two boys. Another is that despite being good previously, I felt that I couldnt relate to her current situation as it is dark and dreary.

I felt uncomfortable with the character as I got to know more about her and I couldnt relate to her on any level whatsoever and felt as if I was unable to pull off her demeanour whilst reciting the monologue.

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Age: Adult

Physical characteristics:
Voice: Sharp and strict
Posture: Straight although stressed
Walk: Fast, urgent at times.
Distinguishing marks: None
Physical Description: None stated

Occupation:
Queen of the goths
Mother

Interests:
None stated

Character history:

Tamora is the Queen of the Goths turned Roman Empress. After Titus ritually sacrifices her eldest son, Tamora makes it her mission in life to make Titus and his family suffer. She accomplishes this through her good looks, sensuality, and ability to manipulate those around her.

As she is seen kind and caring at the beginning, she soon changes. Regardless of whether or not audiences feel sorry for Tamora when Bassianus and Lavinia confront her in the woods with racially charged accusations, the empress loses our sympathy when she encourages her sons to rape Lavinia while she runs off to have a dalliance with Aaron: "Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor, / And let my spleenful sons this trull [prostitute] deflower"(2.3.13). By this point, Tamora's sexuality is seen as just as dark and ugly as her desire for vengeance and willingness to go after Titus's family members.

https://www.shmoop.com/titus-andronicus-shakespeare/tamora.html

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Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?
These two have 'ticed me hither to this place:
A barren detested vale, you see it is;
The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean,
O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe:
Here never shines the sun; here nothing breeds,
Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven:
And when they show'd me this abhorred pit,
They told me, here, at dead time of the night,
A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes,
Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins,
Would make such fearful and confused cries
As any mortal body hearing it
Should straight fall mad, or else die suddenly.
No sooner had they told this hellish tale,
But straight they told me they would bind me here
Unto the body of a dismal yew,
And leave me to this miserable death:
And then they call'd me foul adulteress,
Lascivious Goth, and all the bitterest terms
That ever ear did hear to such effect:
And, had you not by wondrous fortune come,
This vengeance on me had they executed.
Revenge it, as you love your mother's life,
Or be ye not henceforth call'd my children.

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I chose this monologue because after weeks of searching, I felt like It was better than the previous one from Titus Andronicus as it was more relateable to my age range as well as situation. I felt that It was easier for me to create a character from Innogen.

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I chose this monologue because at the time I was also working on the show, so I knew it fairly well.

I also find it a very heart wrenching and thought provoking piece as shes slowly going through her naive thoughts and slowly letting go of her life that shes  come to know in her short 26 years of life.

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Age: Young Adult

Physical characteristics:
Voice: Very feminine, well educated.
Posture: Straight, poised, strong.
Walk: Fast, urgent at times. Can be relaxed
Distinguishing marks:  Mole on left breast
Physical Description: She is as perfect as a princess can be, she's wise, beautiful, resourceful, and most importantly she's honest. Very pretty. Blue eyes

Occupation:
Princess of Britian

Interests:
Enjoys reading in bed

Character history:
A beautiful girl with blue eyes, she is obedient and generally docile, but has an iron backbone and will not be moved against her own desire and integrity. She proves this when she marries Posthumus behind her father’s back and refuses to divorce him, or pay any attention to the attempted seductions of Cloten, even though the King her father is in favor of that match. She is open and honest, though her innate politeness prevents her from fully expressing her opinions until she is pressed too far. She is also chaste, and puts off her husband from the marriage bed – their marriage may not even be consummated. She can be extremely headstrong, whether in keeping to her room or galloping off to meet Posthumus, disguising herself as a boy named Fidele, or entering in service to her father’s enemy. She is extraordinarily courageous, and has excellent instincts, knowing exactly whom to trust even when she cannot explain why, and also knowing that her stepmother means her no good. Horrified at Posthumus’s accusations against her and desire to see her dead, she still loves him and forgives him when he repents; nevertheless, waking out of a drugged sleep she is incapable of recognizing that it is not his headless body that she wakes up next to, but Cloten’s. She is delighted to discover that the two young men she befriended in the cave are actually her brothers, and that she will therefore not inherit the throne. A well-educated young lady who enjoys reading in bed, she has a mole on her left breast.

https://www.playshakespeare.com/cymbeline/characters/2358-imogen

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Cymbeline, Princess Innogen/Imogen. Act 3, scene 4. William Shakespeare

Why, I must die;
And if I do not by thy hand, thou art

No servant of thy master's. Against self-slaughter
There is a prohibition so divine
That cravens my weak hand. Come, here's my heart.
Something's afore't. Soft, soft! we'll no defence;
Obedient as the scabbard. What is here?

The scriptures of the loyal Leonatus,
All turn'd to heresy? Away, away,
Corrupters of my faith! you shall no more
Be stomachers to my heart. Thus may poor fools
Believe false teachers: though those that

are betray'd
Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
Stands in worse case of woe.
And thou, Posthumus, thou that didst set up
My disobedience 'gainst the king my father

And make me put into contempt the suits
Of princely fellows, shalt hereafter find
It is no act of common passage, but
A strain of rareness: and I grieve myself
To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her

That now thou tirest on, how thy memory
Will then be pang'd by me. Prithee, dispatch:
The lamb entreats the butcher: where's thy knife?
Thou art too slow to do thy master's bidding,
When I desire it too.

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Personal statement first draft and feedback

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Personal statement first draft and feedback

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As a sixteen-year-old girl, Emily has become interested in boys. When George approaches her and asks to carry her books, she is ecstatic. She eagerly agrees to help him with his algebra homework and to have a soda/ice cream sundae with him. Additionally, she uses the opportunity to scold him for not paying his friends more attention; of course, she is really concerned about him not paying her attention. Because of her interest in boys, Emily is also very conscious of her appearance. She asks her mother if she is pretty and complains about having to wear a plain blue dress to school. Another time she tries to walk as if she were an elegant lady.

Several times during the play, Emily is prone to romanticism. She tells George that she expects her man to be perfect, and then tells him that he could reach perfection. She also enjoys nature, taking time to smell the heliotrope and gaze at the moonlight. Her dreamy ways, however, do not get in the way of her being practical and helpful. She boldly tells George that he has been acting in a conceited way. She also willingly helps her mother and is seen stringing beans with her.

It is not surprising that Emily chooses to marry George. She has grown up with him and always been attracted to him. On her wedding day, however, she is very nervous and unsure of her decision. Her mother admits that she is probably too young for matrimony and really knows little about life. Mrs. Webb hopes that some of Emily's friends have told her what is in store for her in marriage.

In the last act of the play, it is Emily who teaches the audience the theme of the drama. Dying during the birth of her second child, Emily is too young and unprepared to face or accept death. Unlike the older spirits who have embraced the peace of death, she longs to return to earth and the familiar things in Grover's Corners; she misses her husband and her four-year-old son. As a result, she decides she will go back to her hometown; she chooses to relive her twelfth birthday. The journey back is a horrible mistake. As she watches herself as a twelve-year-old girl, she realises how she and her family had no appreciation of life. They took everything for granted. Disillusioned by this callous disregard for the wonders of living, Emily bids farewell to Grover's Corners to return to the peace of her grave. In the process, she teaches the audience to appreciate everything in life - the ticking of a clock, the smell of a sunflower, the wonder of a mother's love, and a thousand other little things taken for granted each day.

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Age: At the time of the monologue, she is 26.

Physical characteristics:
Voice: Very feminine, well educated. New Hampshire Accent.
Posture: Straight, confident yet relaxed.
Walk: Slow, bouncy. Confident
Distinguishing marks:  None
Physical Description: Emily is of slim build who is a pretty girl "All my children have good features. I'd be ashamed if they hadn't- Myrtle Webb, Mother". Dresses very feminine and ladylike.

Occupation:
In the first act, she is a the daughter to Myrtle and Charles Webb.
In the second act, she becomes a wife (housewife) to George Gibbs.
In the third act it is shown that she is a mother of two who tended to the family farm as well as being a housewife.

Interests:
She is a bookworm and loves school. This is shown through a scene where she helps George with his homework as well as her talking to her mother about making a speech about "the Louisiana purchase". She also asks one of her friends to come and study Latin with her in act two and it is also shown that she has a good relationship with her teacher Miss Corcoran.

Beliefs:
It does not mention her religious beliefs but by the line "...and shame the devil" and being married in a church, as well as her father stating town statistics in act one we would presume that she is a Christian.

As of other beliefs, she mentions that she believes every man should be perfect. "I always expect a man to be perfect and I think he should be".

Character history:
Emily is one of the main characters of the play whose life and death is closely followed throughout all three acts. In the very beginning of the play, she is a bright young student who cares about progressing and reaching the highest in all that she does. She always has exceptional grades and later on in act two, she is elected as the secretary/treasurer for her senior class in high school. She is more than aware of her abilities admitting, "I'm the brightest girl in school for my age. I have a wonderful memory" In the beginning of act one.

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Our Town, Emily's monologue. Act 3. Thornton Wilder

I can't bear it. They're so young and beautiful. Why did they ever have to get old? Mama, I'm here. I'm grown up. I love you all, everything. I cant look at everything hard enough. Oh, Mama, just look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama. I married George Gibbs, Mama. Wally's dead, too. Mama, his appendix burst on a camping trip to North Conway. We felt just terrible about it - don't you remember? But, just for a moment now we're all together. Mama, just for a moment we're happy. Let's look at one another. I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. All that was going on in life and we never noticed. Take me back - up the hill - to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Goodbye, Goodbye, world. Goodbye, Grover's Corners? Mama and Papa. Goodbye to clocks ticking? And Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths? And sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realise you. Do any human beings ever realise life while they live it? - every, every minute? I'm ready to go back. I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people.