2 Two Minute Audtion Monlogues for NYU?

Question

Hello. I am a senior in high school and I am about to go for my audtion for the New York University Musical Theatre Department. I need two contemporary women's monologues and I can't seem to find many on the internet. Does anybody have any suggestions for me? Also, to any of you who have done these auditions before, do you know of any good places on the internet to get instrumental scores for musicals?

Answer 1

First of all GOOD ON YA,,,smile, I'm an NYU alumn, and theater background degreed.

2 minutes may seem interminably long to memorize, but it's over in a heartbeat, and you need to find passages from some monlogue, or craft your own, that are a CORE of a longer message, and definitely deliver THE POINT, in 2 minutes.

The audition truly is less about the context than it is about YOU and how you present yourself, how you Project, and how you look, as if the judges were an audience.

I'll give you an example of some audition scenarios.

Assume there are 2 dozen people attempting to be chosen. It's likely that most if not all will choose something the judges have heard adnuaseum, and very likely repeated by even one other of the 2 dozen.

ABOUT TO GO suggests that you may not have much time, not only to get into character, but pull it off as if you truly WERE the character.

Also without knowing any of their current criteria, (hopefully you've been made aware of some) it may be that something very personal to you, very well known, without having to memorize or embellish, might be a good way to go.

In saying that consider this. In 2 minutes you might very easily be able to monologue about a very REAL life experience, as if telling it as a story, and if so, may not have a single pause in forgetting a line or word. Believe this... Unless you get call backs, audition judges aren't paying so much attention to WHAT you say, as they are to HOW you present it.

Steven Wolf
NYU 1961- 1967

BTW computer says no,,, I just did, smiles

Answer 2

hiya,
first of all im 15,and im doing a monologue that is two mins long,and it is saint joan by george bernard shaw,i think any age can do it. im doing it in two weeks for my NYT (national youth theatre) audition and it is really good to show your talent. if you would like it let me know and all the best with everything.

would you mind helping me by answering my latest question
thank you