Since we put out the
casting call for Top Actor Africa we've been flooded with requests for monologues that can be used for the auditions.
We've been in touch with BET who've sent us the exact monologues that are going to be available at the auditions on the day. You can use them to prepare for your casting and you can use them if you're going to enter online by submitting a video clip.
As you'll see, the scenes are from movies and TV shows and include a choice of drama or comedy.
For the girls
Movie: Chicago
Character: Velma Kelly
Style: Dramatic
My sister, Veronica, and I had this double act and my husband, Charlie, traveled around with us. Now for the last number in our act, we did these 20 acrobatic tricks in a row, one, two, three, four, five... Splits, spread eagles, back flips, flip flops, one right after the other. Well, this one night before the show we are in a hotel Cicero, the three of us, sittin' up in a hotel room, boozin' and havin' a few laughs and we ran out of ice, so I went out to get some. I come back, open the door And there's Veronica and Charlie doing Number Seventeen -the spread eagle. Well, I was in such a state of shock, I completely blacked out. I can't remember a thing. It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands I even knew they were dead.
Stage musical: The Fantasticks
Character: The Girl (Luisa)
Style: Dramatic
This morning a bird woke me up. It was a lark, or a peacock; something like that. So I said hello. And it vanished, flew away, the very moment I said hello! It was quite mysterious. So do you know what I did? I went to my mirror and brushed my hair two hundred times, without stopping. And as i was brushing it, my hair turned mauve. No, honestly! Mauve! Then red. then some sort of a deep blue when the sun hit it.... I'm sixteen years old, and every day something happens to me. i don't know what to make of it. When i get up in the morning and get dressed, I can tell...something's different. I like to touch my eyelids, because they're never quite the same. oh, oh, oh! I hug myself till my arms turn blue, then I close my eyes and cry and cry till the tears come down and I can taste them. I love to taste my tears. I am special. I am special! Please god, please, don't let me be normal!
Stand alone monologue: Hi Brian
Character: Ella
Style: Comedy
Hey, Brian. It’s Ella. Again. I just saw this story in the newspaper that made me think of you. The headline was “I Married My Stalker” and it got me thinking-that could be me and you, but you keep calling the cops. Not that I’m upset about that or anything. Actually I thought I was kind of funny. Me? Being arrested for stalking? Ok. I mean, I wouldn’t call it stalking. It's more like.....investigating someone....you’re attracted to. Anyways, I thought it was kind of romantic. Like in Twilight when Edward watched Bella sleep. We could be Edward and Bella! My point is: I need you, Brian. And I think you need me. Remember that time I made you breakfast in bed? (Bitterly:) Although, I have to admit, you weren't very grateful. All I needed was a simple thank you… not “How did you get in my house?". But I can forgive you for that. We all make mistakes. So uh, call me when you get this. Bye! Love You!?
Film/play: Goodbye Charles
Character: Jillian
Style: Comedy
I ate them. That’s right. I ate the divorce papers, Charles. I ate them with ketchup. And they were good…goooood. You probably want me to get serious about our divorce. The thing is you always called our marriage a joke. So let’s use logic here: If A we never had a serious marriage then B we can’t have a serious divorce. No. We can’t. The whole thing’s a farce, Charles – a farce that tastes good with ketchup. I mean, wasn’t it last week, your dad asked you the reason you walked down that aisle with me, and you said “for the exercise.” Ha, ha. That’s funny. You’re a funny guy, Charles. I’m laughing, not a crying. Ha, ha. I’m laughing because you’re about to give up on a woman who is infinitely lovable
For the guys
Film: Zero Dark Thirty
Character: CIA Director
Style: Dramatic
I want to make something absolutely clear. If you thought there was some secret cell somewhere, working al-Qaeda, then I want you to know that you are wrong. This is it. There's no working group coming to the rescue. There's nobody else hidden away on some other floor. There is just us. And we are failing. We're spending billions of dollars. People are dying! We are still no close to defeating our enemy. They attacked us! On land, in '98. By sea, in 2000. And from the air, in 2001. They murdered 3000 of our citizens in cold blood. And they have slaughtered our forward deployed! And what the *bleep!* have we done about it? huh? What have we done? We have 20 leadership names, we've only eliminated four of them! I want targets. Do your *bleep!* jobs. Bring me people to kill."
Show: The Borgias
Character: Juan
Style: Dramatic
May I make a speech, mother....we were outsiders when we came here. Spaniards, Catalans. And we endured the insults. The taunts of Murano...the bile...the poison....the insidious invective of the Roman nobility. [He stands up] And you, dear mother, endured it most of all. But if we managed to triumph, and triumph we did, we did because of the warmth that we discovered around this table. The warmth of the Spaniard sun, of our Catalan blood. That you recreated in your hearth, in your home. At this table. The huge, unstoppable, beating heart of La Madre. Let us drink to...to family!
Show: Entourage
Character: Ari Gold
Style: Comedy
ARI: "Everybody stop. I didn't go to the Lakers because they were playing the *bleep!* Bobcats....and I came here today because I thought this was a session on how my wife could learn how to communicate. How to answer a question without a question. Basic humanity 101. Which I thought, given your wall of *bleep!* diplomas, you could easily fix. Or if you couldn't, you could give her a pill that could either fix it or make her a mute...But now to turn around and gang up on me? I have work to do. I have hundreds of clients to deal with. And just so we are clear, I don't care about any of them. They're all just a number, like wife number 1 and therapist number 7. Good day...."
Stand alone monolgue: My First Audition
Style: Comedy
I’m going to my first audition today. Oh, boy – oh, boy – oh boy! I hope I get the part! I’m sure I can do a great job. I can’t see why they won’t chose me. I’m perfect, in an average- joe sort of way. I can blend in or be made up to stand out. My hair is longish-shortish and my eyes are not exactly hazel but kind of chameleon-ish. I can change just like a chameleon. Slick my hair back or fluff it out. Curl it or keep it straight. Spike it up or look normal – like everyone else. I can dye it, cut it, add extensions or buzz it off. It’s just hair, after all. I can wear wedges or boots or heels. I can slouch or stand tall and straight. I can follow a script to the letter or improvise – whatever you want. Just pick me, please.
Film/play: Peter and the Starcatcher
Character: Black Stache
Style: Comedic
Perchance you think a treasure trunk sans treasure has put my piratical BVDs in a twist? How wrong you are. Yes, I’d hoped to be hip-deep in diamonds, but they’re a poor substitute for what I really crave: a bona fide hero to help me feel whole. For without a hero, what am I? Half a villain; a pirate in part; ruthless, but toothless. And then I saw you, and I thought, “Maybe? Can it be? Is he the one I’ve waited for? Would he, for example, give up something precious for the sake of the daughter he loves?” But alas, he gives up sand. Now, let’s see: hero with treasure, very good. Hero with no treasure…. doable. No hero and a trunk full o’ sand? Not s’much. NOW, WHERE’S MY TREASURE?!?
Please note: You don't
have to use these monologues. You can also perform one of your own choosing from any movie, TV show or play or you can write your own. They need to be a minute long, performed.
For more info about the auditions, please see:
Top Actor renewed! - and casting soon
Top Actor Africa auditions: why you need a passport