5/16/2023 0 Comments Little women monologue![]() ![]() So I said: Fuck you, Radio City and the Rockettes! I’m gonna make on Broadway! Of course, what he was trying to tell me was…it was the way I looked, not the fankicks. And this man said to me: Can you do fankicks? – Well, sure I could do terrific fankicks. I showed up at the Music Hall with my red patent leather tap shoes. Wrong! I had to wait 6 months for an audition. Well, with that kind of talent I figured the Mayor would be waiting for me at Port Authority. I could do a hundred and eighty degree split and come up tapping the Morse Code. I looked like a fucking nurse! I had 87 dollars in my pocket and seven years of tap and acrobatics. Get the picture? Anyway, I got off this bus in my little white shoes, my little white tights, little white dress, my little ugly face, and my long blonde hair – which was natural then. I was ugly, skinny, homely, unattractive and flat as a pancake. ![]() Merry Christmas – and never made it back to Radio City. Unfortunately though, she got knocked up over Christmas. A goddamn parade! I twirled a friggin’ baton for two hours in the rain. Well, she came home one Christmas to visit, and they gave her a parade. See, I never heard about “The Red Shoes,” I never saw “The Red Shoes,” I didn’t give a fu** about “The Red Shoes.” I decided to be a Rockette because this girl in my home town – Louella Heiner – had actually gotten out and made it in New York. “So, the day after I turned 18, I kissed the folks goodbye, got on a Trailways bus – and headed for the big bad apple. This witty monologue, from the acclaimed musical, ‘A Chorus Line,’ denotes one dancer’s darkly comedic journey to the Broadway stage. “So, the day after I turned 18…” – Val Clarke from ‘A Chorus Line’Ĭhances are, you and Val have at least one thing in common: you’re familiar with the trials and tribulations of auditioning. Here are 17 great comedic monologues for women: 1. Just like every actress, every monologue brings something new to the table – especially when it comes to comedy! Next time you’re looking to slay an audition with a funny monologue (YAS, QUEEN!), peruse this diverse collection. For many performers, much of that pre-audition anxiety comes in the form of choosing a well-suited monologue. I mostly just found him confusing.Let’s face it: preparing for an audition is nearly as stressful as the audition itself. Anyway, most of that story was great, except I wasn't sure what the point of that Retcon guy was. But! That makes so much sense! I've always just hated it because I had this nebulous feeling that she was a victim of her writers, like okay she's very powerful, why does that have to be scary and bad? Why does that make her into a crazy person who kills everyone? Why? This is not a story we've ever seen with a man at the center. I liked all the stories, but I very much appreciated the presence of the Jean Grey analogue, because I have ALWAYS HATED the Dark Phoenix storyline (in every iteration or adaptation I've seen it in), and because it's not really linked to the existence of a significant other, hadn't thought to think sexism was why I hated it so much. It has the feel of a book that just fell out of the author's pen/keyboard (if that's not the case, then I'm even more impressed). ![]() ![]() She does a great job just zeroing in on the point of each woman's story, getting her voice right, and then doing it. This is the first book I've read by Valente that I've liked without reservation, so perhaps I shouldn't give up on her as an author quite yet. The six women who give us their monologues from beyond the grave are Paige Embry (an analogue for Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man's famously dead girlfriend) Julia Ash (Jean Grey from X-Men) Bayou (Mera from Aquaman) Pauline Ketch/Pretty Polly (Harley Quinn from Batman) Daisy Green (Karen Page from Daredevil) and Samantha Dane (Alexandra Dewitt from Green Lantern, the character this trope is named for, since she was killed and left in a refrigerator for her boyfriend to find). This gives the stories much more weight than they would have had otherwise, because her criticism has an actual target, but also speaks to a more general problem. Riffing on both the stage play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, and Gail Simone's website Women in Refrigerators (which coined the term "fridging," for any female character who dies in order to further the plotline or character arc of a man), Valente's book six women whose lives were reduced to subplots for various superheroes, and gives them back their voices (which in most cases is little consolation they're still dead).Īt first I was a bit worried that Valente hadn't used real comics characters, but each character has a clear analogue, even if details in their stories differ. It's a short read, a novella really, at only 147 pages, but it packs a punch. The Refrigerator Monologues is a feminist response to the way women are treated in superhero comics. ![]()
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