Monologues and Songs that Are Overdone
by Janet E. McLean, Viterbo University, LaCrosse, Wisconsin
Monologues that are overdone:
Identity crisis -- Peter Pan
Girl's Guide to Chaos -- dating speech
Beyond Therapy -- all monologues
Brighton Beach Memoirs -- all monologues
Fifth of July -- all monologues
Well of Water -- last cigarette speech
Talking With -- 15 minutes
Boy's Life -- anything
A, My Name Is Alice -- jockstrap speech
Lone Star -- Roy's Edith Ellen speech
Heidi Chronicles -- anything
Laughing Wild -- the tuna speech
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead -- swimming audition
Baby with the Bathwater -- all of it
Star-Spangled Girl -- all monologues
House of Blue Leaves -- all of it
Romantic Comedy -- marshmallow
Quilters -- Sunbonnet Sue
Shadow Box -- Beverly
Equus -- all monologues
King Lear -- Edmond
If I Only Had a Brain -- all monologues
Little Footsteps -- all monologues
I Hate Hamlet -- anything
Kennedy's Children -- anything
Songs that are overdone:
Little Shop of Horrors
The Fantasticks -- all of it
Les Miserables -- all of it
Phantom of the Opera -- all of it
Evita -- all of it
Kiss Me Kate -- all of it
Chicago -- All That Jazz
South Pacific -- Wash That Man...
Show Boat -- Can't Help Lovin'...
Sweet Charity -- Big Spender
Guys & Dolls -- Adelaide's Lament
A Chorus Line -- all of it
City of Angels -- You Can Always...
Miss Bird song
My Fair Lady -- all of it
Embraceable You
I Get a Kick Out of You
Jeykll and Hyde -- all of it