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Gay Character Monologue Help

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Gay Character Monologue Help#1
Posted: 5/21/19 at 6:15pm

Hey ya. I figured you all were a good group to crowd source a gay-themed monologue for an upcoming audition. I was thinking something from Boys in the Band, or something in that vein. Any ideas? I feel like something from Angels in America is too obvious. 

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Gay Character Monologue Help#2
Posted: 5/21/19 at 6:22pm

The whole opening monologue from TORCH SONG (TRILOGY)

THE BOYS IN THE BAND doesn’t really have any monologues from what I remember.

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Gay Character Monologue Help#3
Posted: 5/21/19 at 6:41pm

In Significant Other, there's a part where Jordan takes a long time explaining what it would be like to be in a relationship with his crush. I cant remember the details, but it ends with something like "I wonder what it would be like to wake up everyday with my shoes next to his". I thought it was really beautiful 

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Gay Character Monologue Help#4
Posted: 5/21/19 at 6:59pm

The original two act version of BOYS IN THE BAND has a monologue for Michael in the first act if you're interested. 

 

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Gay Character Monologue Help#5
Posted: 5/21/19 at 7:22pm

How is ANGELS more obvious than BOYS IN THE BAND?

But speaking of the latter, doesn't Emory have a monologue in connection with his phone call in Act II of the original?

Even better, you can find anthologies of gay plays in the library (and probably at Amazon). Why not read a bunch of plays rather than relying on whatever comes first to poster's minds here?

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Gay Character Monologue Help#6
Posted: 5/21/19 at 7:55pm

Off the top of my head: 

  1. Bent: by Martin Sherman
  2. Love! Valour! Compassion!
  3. Billy’s Monologue in The Goat or Who is Sylvia
  4. Jeffrey
  5. Shopping and F*CKing
  6. A Great Wilderness, 
  7. Gross Indecency
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Gay Character Monologue Help#7
Posted: 5/21/19 at 10:23pm

quizking101 said: "The whole opening monologue from TORCH SONG (TRILOGY)

THE BOYS IN THE BAND doesn’t really have any monologues from what I remember.
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I pieced together a monologue from "The Boys in the Band" by Emory before his phone call. It got me into NYU's Tisch School of Arts.

 

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Gay Character Monologue Help#8
Posted: 5/22/19 at 1:22am
Great ideas! Thank you

GavestonPS: Because crowd sourcing is great! Its great to hear others opinions! Id totally forgotten about Significant Other! So why be so negative? Just dont post?
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Gay Character Monologue Help#9
Posted: 5/22/19 at 10:12am
There are a few options in The Normal Heart.
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Gay Character Monologue Help#10
Posted: 5/24/19 at 12:26pm

Technically from a musical, but Paul's monologue from A Chorus Line is always a good joins!

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Gay Character Monologue Help#11
Posted: 5/24/19 at 1:56pm
Babe’s spoken sections of “The Beat Goes On” from THE CHER SHOW. You can’t get any gayer than that, mon ami. A sure fire HIT!
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Gay Character Monologue Help#12
Posted: 5/24/19 at 8:59pm
I believe Samuel French might have a book of monologues for gay characters.
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Gay Character Monologue Help#13
Posted: 5/25/19 at 7:44am

Depending on how specifically gay-themed it has to be, there's Vanya's critique of the modern world in the second act of Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike.

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Gay Character Monologue Help#14
Posted: 5/25/19 at 11:22pm

Martin Sherman's Gently Down The Stream also has many monologues.

 


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