Preparation For College: Visual & Performing Arts

For students wanting to study: Acting, Art & Design, Dance and Musical Theatre, Fine Art, Graphics, LAM DA Award, Life Drawing, Music Performance and Technology, Photography, Textiles

Musical Theatre - FEMALE At a Musical Theatre audition you would be expected to perform at least one monologue, song, and take part in a dance class. We would like you to prepare a monologue, song and learn a short dance extract in order to prepare you for our musical theatre course. You can choose your own monologue, song and dance or use the one below. It is helpful to research the musical and the character first in order to fully prepare yourself.

Example - 9 to 5: The Musical by Patricia Resnick. Music & lyrics by Dolly Parton. Click here for the full show.

Character monologue: Violet

Script: VIOLET:

Oh, it's no use, we might as well come clean; he's going to get us anyway. But before we get arrested and spend the next thirty years in prison, making pen pals in Nebraska, I want to say a few things: This place was hell until we fixed it.

Beat. SHE looks at HART, quietly furious and growing stronger and more certain. We all do the work of keeping things running around here as best we can, Mr. Tinsworthy, not him. He plays golf and drinks scotch and takes the credit. Any why? 'Cause he's "The Guy". No, you wait a minute! I've been waiting my whole life! See - we're not The Guy. We're just the "Little Guy".

The little guy doesn't play golf ... he plays catch up. The little guy is late picking the kids up from school because of work - and late getting to work because of the kids. The little guy cooks and coaches ball and balances budgets and squeezes a dollar as far as it can go, and works her ass off, and if that doesn't qualify her to be heard and seen and respected, well WHAT DOES?

And so, yeah, we kidnapped Mr. Hart and threw him in the back of my Buick ... We tried to make everything better and now he's going to get all the credit and we're gonna get ten to life.

Song: One of the Boys

Click here for the backing track.

Lyrics: Violet

Hey, would you look at me? It's hard to believe I'm a star aftera ll of this time Others may glow from the stardust I throw on their path Never thinking I'd shine

Like some Hollywood queen I've arrived on the scene A sensation, the toast of the town, oh, she's fabulous I'm wallowing in it, I love every minute So up I may never come down

The most beautiful, glamorous, brilliant and amorous Female CEO in the world, the whole wide world, wow My ship finally came in, ahoy and now it's smooth sailin' I'm everyone's new pin-up girl

Respected and high class I don't have to kiss ass for the first time since I've been employed It's my time to shine and I'm feeling fine This old girl's now one of the boys

Violet

The most beautiful, glamorous, brilliant and amorous Female CEO in the world It's landed in my lap, I don't have to take crap For the first time since I was a girl

Violet's one of the boys, huh

Violet's one of the boys, Violet's one of the boys Yeah, she's one of the, wow, she's one of the Now she is one of the boys

Oh, I'll razzle and dazzle, wear you to a frazzle Competing is my greatest joy Go, get 'em, girl

I'll take this job and love it I'm a woman and proud of it This old girl is one of the boys

Beautiful, glamorous, brilliant and amorous This old gal is one of the boys She's one of the, she's one of the Yeah, she's one of the, Violet's one of the boys

Dance - 9 to 5 Click here for the video. Task: learn the choreography from the chorus, from 1:10-1:30.