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  • 1.  Forgotten Monologue

    Posted 01-13-2015 10:22

    I have a student who swears she saw a monologue at the California State Festival two years ago that involved a woman waiting for a phone call, ending with her yelling at the phone.  That's all she remembers, but she really wants to do the monologue......

     Does this ring a bell with anyone?

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    Kathleen Conner
    West Hollywood, CA
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  • 2.  RE: Open Forum : Forgotten Monologue

    Posted 01-14-2015 07:23
    Sounds like "A Telephone Call" by Dorothy Parker.  It's not from a play but I have seen people use it as a monologue.

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    Elizabeth Tuxill
    Teacher
    DBOE
    Dumont NJ
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  • 3.  RE: Open Forum : Forgotten Monologue

    Posted 01-14-2015 08:45
    Could it be from Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl? She's actually yelling at the guy but he's, as suggested by the title, dead.

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    Danielle Roy-Dilks
    Orlando FL
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  • 4.  RE: Open Forum : Forgotten Monologue

    Posted 01-14-2015 15:55
    I'm thinking it's from Jane Wagner's The Search for signs of Intelligent life in the universe (Lily Tomlin), but I could be wrong. Many of my female students have done it over the past few years (I'll ask them). It is overdone at college auditions, but I haven't see it at my entrance auditions for a few years.

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    Phillip Rayher
    Director, Theatre Dept.
    Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts
    San Francisco CA
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