https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v Read these scripts to find a monologue to use for the fall show audition en-us 2021-07-10 16:54:55 UTC 2026-03-20 03:13:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3ad.png gracehellyer https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1644152847 In the madcap comedy tradition of Lend Me a Tenor, the hilarious Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. At the moment, they’re playing Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo, New York with five actors. On the brink of a disastrous split-up caused by George’s dalliance with a young ingénue, they receive word that they might just have one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee, and if he likes what he sees, he might cast them in his movie remake of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Unfortunately for George and Charlotte, everything that could go wrong does go wrong, abetted by a visit from their daughter’s clueless fiancé and hilarious uncertainty about which play they’re actually performing, caused by Charlotte’s deaf, old stage-manager mother who hates every bone in George’s body.]]> 2021-07-10 16:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1644152847 gracehellyer https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1644168760 Inspired by the playwright's youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, with all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically scrambles to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of star madman "Max Prince".]]> 2021-07-10 17:41:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1644168760 lisastucker https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1646189580 When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When he shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood's delusion has had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn't so bad after all. ]]> 2021-07-12 17:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1646189580 lisastucker https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1646222508 In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father's funeral, the Turpin's other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by devouring junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents. As the situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his long-suffering wife, "When I die, don't tell nobody. Just bury me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you." Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.]]> 2021-07-12 18:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1646222508 lisastucker https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1646235173 In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids -- probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem -- and the fun -- when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on.]]> 2021-07-12 18:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1646235173 lisastucker https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1646240665 The place is a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly "burned out" young social worker named Jack. Norman, who works in a doughnut shop and is unable to resist the lure of the sweet pastries, takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys that dangles from his waist; Lucien P. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old, but imagines that he is able to read and comprehend the weighty books that he lugs about; Arnold, the ringleader of the group, is a hyperactive, compulsive chatterer, who suffers from deep-seated insecurities and a persecution complex; while Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic who is devastated by the unfeeling rejection of his brutal father, fantasizes that he is a golf pro. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where "little things" sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the handicapped, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time which they, like their more fortunate brothers, are allotted on this earth. ]]> 2021-07-12 18:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gracehellyer/5110zp01wbfy470v/wish/1646240665