Monologues from Musicals

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 4 (p. 71)

First Line: “You stay still and listen!”

Last Line: “… and the respect everybody had for yuh!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Music: 14 (p. 67)

First Line: “Okay, am I going crazy? ‘Cause I think, maybe …”

Last Line: “… just a tiny little bit … in a roundabout sort of way … into him?”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 6A

First Line: “I’m standing before you this morning with a very troubled heart.”

Last Line: “Please join me in asking our Lord to guide and protect our children.”

Libretto: Dramatic Publishing➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 5 (p. 48)

First Line: “Mr. and Mrs. Parker, your extraordinary son Ralph has written…”

Last Line: “…my prize A plus, plus, plus, plus, plus, plus student.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Scene 1 (p. 10)

First Line: “I would like – if I may – to take you on a strange journey.”

Last Line: “It was a night out they were to remember for a very – long – time.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 1 (p. 62)

First Line: “There’s something you all should know!”

Last Line: “… a bizarre and unprecedented infection, an infection caused by Edgar’s bite.”

Libretto: Amazon➝

Location: Act I (p. 53)

First Line: “Mr. Todd. I’ve paced Fleet Street a dozen times…”

Last Line: “A thousand blessings to you both!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 5

First Line: “I just wanted to say a few words…”

Last Line: “…the way it’s always been and that’s the way it should be now. Thank you.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Scene 4 (p. 21)

First Line: “Yes. It was strange the way it happened …”

Last Line: “…it took a small accident to make it happen. An accident”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 6

First Line: “Ha ha – Funny thing happened at the counter today…”

Last Line: “He coulda had a sundae – nineteen cents.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 7 (2-7-31)

First Line: “… Hello? Western Union?”

Last Line: “He’s got to come … He’s got to!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 6 (p. 90)

First Line: “But at least the possibility!”

Last Line: “You are hungry, Miss Samish: eat the ravioli!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 4 (p. 36)

First Line: “I had a contemporary American Literature teacher…”

Last Line: “I’m suddenly feeling very self-conscious.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Scene 9 (Noel’s Bumper)

First Line: “I’ve seen the movie Blue Angel about a billion and one times…”

Last Line: “I was a sexual provocateur and a novelist, who never wrote a novel.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 5 (2-5-23)

First Line: “I do now. I had twenty-nine hours … “

Last Line: “Marry me. Please.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Page 73

First Line: “Caption”

Last Line: “You succumbing to a rare moment of physical contact with me.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 1 (p. 49)

First Line: “Sleep! … I can’t sleep!”

Last Line: “We know who that is, don’t we?”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 1 (p. 41)

First Line: “I just wanna say, truly in all sincerity, Miss Lynch…”

Last Line: “So, okay, cats, throw your mittens around your kittens … and AWAY WE GO!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 1 (p. 60)

First Line: “Cut to dark shadowy streets.”

Last Line: “It is like a terrible dream.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 6 (2-6-25)

First Line: “Dearly beloved – oh, how I love to say those words!”

Last Line: “Amen. You may kiss the bride.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 1 (1-2-4)

First Line: “So – Christmas Eve, 1944.”

Last Line: “Let’s pray it’s a better world. Soldiers – Merry Christmas.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Page 119-120

First Line: “Oh, Zach, I didn’t mind not being part of your work.”

Last Line: “I’m doing it for me. Who are you doing it for?”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 1 (p. 90)

First Line: “Maybe I will. Shore I’ll talk to him. I’ll say,…”

Last Line: “Then I’ll jest say … Frank!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 8

First Line: “Baby, that’s my gate, and I make sure nobody gets through it…”

Last Line: “I eat your heart, Baby. HAH-HAH-HAH!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 7

First Line: “I’ll lend you some.”

Last Line: “What the hell’s the matter with you?”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 3 (p. 25)

First Line: “Dear God, Thank you for the White Way of Delight and the Snow Queen.”

Last Line: “I could have made it much more flowery if I’d had time to think it over!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 6 (1-6-39)

First Line: “I don’t. Not really.”

Last Line: “… and I don’t get embarrassed anymore.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Page 35

First Line: “Well, to begin with, I come from this quasi-middle-upper …”

Last Line: “… luckily I didn’t paint the soles of his feet.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 3 (p. 48)

First Line: “Darling, listen to this. Please stop that, that’s illegal.”

Last Line: “I thought this was going to be you and me.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 10

First Line: “All the pictures are almost gone…”

Last Line: “I lose this and she’ll be gone forever.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 3 (p. 50)

First Line: “If I call Roy now, I’ll have to tell him the truth…”

Last Line: “I think there are still a great many wonders left to be seen in Florence.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 1 (p. 11)

First Line: “Prisoner 16115. Name – Valentin Arrequi Paz.”

Last Line: “We have ways.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act II, Scene II (p. 95)

First Line: “Hill 700 was this big hill…”

Last Line: “Julia, wait – I’m sorry.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Scene 14B (Ricky’s Bumper)

First Line: “Ricky Potts, born June 5th.”

Last Line: “I give you the fantasia of Richard Potts, the most imaginative boy in town.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Prologue

First Line: “It’s not like you left it, Martha.”

Last Line: “In God’s name … and in your memory, I promise.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 1 (p. 15)

First Line: “Fred Casely, How could he be a burglar?”

Last Line: “Boy, what a sap I was!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 8 (p. 45)

First Line: “You gonna do something to me, why don’t you just come ahead and do it?”

Last Line: “How would that do?”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 2 (2-2-7)

First Line: “Jerry, please! Please. Just give me a minute.”

Last Line: “I’m sorry for wasting your time.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 1 (1-1-3)

First Line: “Now gentlemen, after all we’re here to pay homage to Martin…”

Last Line: “I head the list with twenty eight cents.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 6

First Line: “We both are. You and me.”

Last Line: “And I can’t stand still.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 2 (p. 13)

First Line: “What do you think I’m having?”

Last Line: “Bring the tapestry – let’s get on with our work.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 4 (2-4-15)

First Line: “He isn’t a Prince, he isn’t even a Georgian …”

Last Line: “Oh, we’ve been looking for him, I can tell you that.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1 (p. 61)

First Line: “From the things my father told me.”

Last Line: “And here I am. Home.”

Libretto: Dramatic Publishing➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 8 (p. 114)

First Line: “Back in those days you never asked yourself, “Do my parents love me?””

Last Line: “Thanks for listening. Merry Christmas.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act I, Scene IA

First Line: “This, in case you don’t know, is called a cassette.”

Last Line: “My life in vinyl.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Scene 9 (p. 44)

First Line: “And so, by some extraordinary coincidence – fate it seems…”

Last Line: “From what had gone before it was clear that this was to be no picnic.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 3 (p. 135)

First Line: “You were hurt? By yourself!“

Last Line: “…clean up your own damn mess!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 3 (p. 27)

First Line: “I tell you not to hold on to your anger but…”

Last Line: “…because I didn’t want to hurt his feelings.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Scene 12A (Mischa’s Bumper)

First Line: “Yo! I want to talk about feeling.”

Last Line: “Auto-tune will never die. Hit the beat.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 3 (p. 51)

First Line: “Yes, well, speaking like a gentleman is one thing…”

Last Line: “Don’t slouch, don’t sulk and, above all, don’t lose your self-control.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 9 (p. 42)

First Line: “It’s always so difficult… Roy and I don’t even discuss it anymore…”

Last Line: “Oh, it’s for nights like this that hotel bars were specifically developed.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act I, Scene 4 (p. 20)

First Line: “The train had stopped, I remember that.”

Last Line: “That was the name of it. Oh, Desert.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Lesson #21 (p. 45)

First Line: “Please, Mom, please. Just this once.”

Last Line: “Oh, Mom, why can’t I?”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 3 (p. 52)

First Line: “Mr. Warner for many generations now, the Enrico Fermi High School…”

Last Line: “Good day, Mr. Warner! Case closed!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act I, Scene 8 (p. 64)

First Line: “Michael’s buried in someplace called Manila.”

Last Line: “Then you can walk me home, Donny Nova.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Scene 6 (Ocean’s Bumper)

First Line: “Ocean O’Connell Rosenberg, born December 22nd”

Last Line: “Ocean O’Connell Rosenberg… the most successful girl in town.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 6 (p. 85)

First Line: “The job fell to me. I took the bat child out to the woods.”

Last Line: “But I was wrong …”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Page 35

First Line: “I was in a bookstore.”

Last Line: “And then, and then, it’s now. Hi.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 5 (II-6-82)

First Line: “Thanks, folks. You hear that song?”

Last Line: “… the nicest gift we could to the greatest guy we’ll ever know.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 3

First Line: “Quiet! Quiet, everybody!”

Last Line: “We got three hundred and eighty bucks. Curtain!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 1B

First Line: “I took the long way to church this morning…”

Last Line: “…we must ask ourselves: “Have I done the right thing?””

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 6 (p. 89)

First Line: “I think the spell is working in the house too.”

Last Line: “I am well!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 1 (1-1-2)

First Line: “Gentlemen, before we get too boiled, there are a few things I want to say…”

Last Line: “…now there’s nothing left for you to do but to die!”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Scene #1 (p. 1)

First Line: “Have you seen the moon tonight?”

Last Line: “But I’ve got to start somewhere, so I’ll start right here.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act I, Scene 3 (p. 24)

First Line: “You know the work I’ve put into this show?”

Last Line: “It’s the W.P.A., kids, they’re tearing down the theatre.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 2 (p. 14)

First Line: “Journal. Wednesday, May 17^th, eleven twenty A.M.”

Last Line: “Suddenly Godzilla’s outside. To be continued.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 5 (p. 77)

First Line: “Please can I marry Susan?”

Last Line: “Susan wants to marry me, and so do I.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 5 (p. 59)

First Line: “In Venetian glass, the same design is used over and over …”

Last Line: “Relax and the world is possible.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Music: 14 (p. 65)

First Line: “I don’t want to sing anymore.”

Last Line: “… look forward to the scene that I am about to cause. Oh, and, uh … later, …”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 4

First Line: “I am the voice of the river, trapped forever.”

Last Line: “…I wish to save you, as he could not be saved.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 9

First Line: “Nick, I was just saying what I thought I ought to say.”

Last Line: “That’s what I’m going to remember.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 2, Scene 6 (p. 67)

First Line: “Hello? … Oh, hi …”

Last Line: “I know you do … Goodbye.”

Libretto: Concord Theatricals➝

Location: Act 1, Scene 1 (1-1-2)

First Line: “Charlie, don’t – say a word.”

Last Line: “Ohh, brother, you sure knows how to talk to a girl.”