Winning Monologs for Young Actors: 65 Honest-To-Life Characterizations to Delight Young Actors and Audiences of All Ages

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Review: "Each is written with wit and sensitivity that captures the innocence of youth as well as their search for growth and independence." --by Sunny Tiedemann, Bartlesville Oklahoma Examiner-Enterprise. "Warm and believable monologs written expressly for young performers...provide students with scare-free scripts for use in speech contests, acting exercises, and general monologs." --Curriculum Product Review. "Heady theatrics and show biz vulgarities have been replaced by 'real talk' people characterizations typical of Erma Bombeck, Mark Twain and Garrison Keillor." --Pat Sargent, Austin, MN Herald. "An excellent source for audition materials as well as for monologs." --Mark R. Sumner, Director, The University of North Carolina. "Budding thespians should find something suitable without resorting to playing Blanche DuBois or Willie Loman." --Booklist

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Summary: didn't find this one helpful
Review: a friend of mine gave me this book in preperation for a professional audition i had coming up and i found nothing in it worth performing. the conclusion that i came to is that the peices selected in the book are somewhat shallow and it's my opinion that if a young actor wants to "win" with whatever he/she is performing, that the material will need to be more real to life and personal to the performer. i don't meant to say that the book would not be usefull for acting excersises or cold reading work, i am, however, saying that young actors such as myself need more of a challenge in their performing than this book gives, especially for something as important as an audition.

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Summary: This book is okay.
Review: I didn't really like this book. The monologs were of an unusual sort, they were really abnormal, that is, most of them were. They also were hard to "act" to. They just weren't my style.

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Summary: This book is okay.
Review: I didn't really like this book. The monologs were of an unusual sort, they were really abnormal, that is, most of them were. They also were hard to "act" to. They just weren't my style.

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Summary: This book is okay.
Review: I didn't really like this book. The monologs were of an unusual sort, they were really abnormal, that is, most of them were. They also were hard to "act" to. They just weren't my style.

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Summary: It was o.k.
Review: I found this book excellent for monologues. Trying out for an acting club, we used monologues from here as our cold readings. They put everyone at ease because they are so perfect for kids. Everyone got really into the monologue they were assigned. In the club, we will perform live with big puppets like they use on tv. For each of our puppets, we will use one of these monologues. They're fantastic! The kids we perform for will absolutely love the monologues!

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Summary: Excellent
Review: I found this book excellent for monologues. Trying out for an acting club, we used monologues from here as our cold readings. They put everyone at ease because they are so perfect for kids. Everyone got really into the monologue they were assigned. In the club, we will perform live with big puppets like they use on tv. For each of our puppets, we will use one of these monologues. They're fantastic! The kids we perform for will absolutely love the monologues!

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Summary: It was o.k.
Review: this was a pretty good book expected i expected more! it said in the add WINNING and it wasnt really the kind you act out on stage with they were the kind you express yourself or make up a little play for your friends and that is not what i expected i was very disappointed because now i have to find a new book.