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My Monlogue for PPAS auditions:
"You see I have all this talent. I can sit down in front of a piano and look at the music and play it, play it very well. I started lessons very young because my parents saw I had this natural ability. I had an affinity with music. And I supposed I could have pursued a career, very successfully, as a concert pianist if I wanted to, but I realized that I would have to give everything up, everything but my music, and I wasn't prepared for that, you know? Also, I can draw very well. You give me a sketch pad and a piece of charcoal and I could do a remarkable likeness of you. I am physically very active. I tried out for several different teams at the school, I like tennis, I play a wicked tennis game, I'm a real net man, I have this killer instinct, and that gets me into trouble in a doubles game, but what can you do? I was on the school paper, I was one of the editors, and I wrote articles, articles on politics, that's something I might go into down the line, because I have this talent for public speaking, for conveying ideas, and journalism, I could be a journalist, because I write well, I have the knack to form ideas and communicate them in terse, concise language that has been called forceful. And languages. I'm a natural with languages. I studied several, but I was thinking of concentrating on Latin, I think is very underrrated right now, I think it's due for a comeback, don't you? I mean, I think these things go in cycles, for a while Spanish and Chinese were all the rage, but I think it's tie for the pendulum to swing back to the basics, to Latin. I was thinking about becoming a classical scholar, something like that. Then there's the sciences, I"m pretty exceptional with abstract concepts, physics, particle physics, could do that or maybe nuclear physics, that's important or astrophysics. Did you read that book A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking? Neither did I, I couldn't get past page fifteen, I haven't met anybody who could finish it, it was incomprehensible to me, yes, the man is brilliant I"m sure, but that book, it was a best seller but I don't think anybody really read it, do you? Then there's history and chemistry and cartography and medicine, I could go into that, I could have a very rewarding career in any of those fields, but here's my problem. What do I focus on? Granted, I could be on of those all around multi-career type people, but in order to be the best in the field, I think I should narrow my energies to one field of study. But which one, that's the question. Because if I choose one over another, am I then depriving myself and in a way, the world, am I depriving all of us of some insight, some discovery, some creation, something that would lie, you know, dormant till I came along? This is the dilemma I face."
let me know what you think...
"You see I have all this talent. I can sit down in front of a piano and look at the music and play it, play it very well. I started lessons very young because my parents saw I had this natural ability. I had an affinity with music. And I supposed I could have pursued a career, very successfully, as a concert pianist if I wanted to, but I realized that I would have to give everything up, everything but my music, and I wasn't prepared for that, you know? Also, I can draw very well. You give me a sketch pad and a piece of charcoal and I could do a remarkable likeness of you. I am physically very active. I tried out for several different teams at the school, I like tennis, I play a wicked tennis game, I'm a real net man, I have this killer instinct, and that gets me into trouble in a doubles game, but what can you do? I was on the school paper, I was one of the editors, and I wrote articles, articles on politics, that's something I might go into down the line, because I have this talent for public speaking, for conveying ideas, and journalism, I could be a journalist, because I write well, I have the knack to form ideas and communicate them in terse, concise language that has been called forceful. And languages. I'm a natural with languages. I studied several, but I was thinking of concentrating on Latin, I think is very underrrated right now, I think it's due for a comeback, don't you? I mean, I think these things go in cycles, for a while Spanish and Chinese were all the rage, but I think it's tie for the pendulum to swing back to the basics, to Latin. I was thinking about becoming a classical scholar, something like that. Then there's the sciences, I"m pretty exceptional with abstract concepts, physics, particle physics, could do that or maybe nuclear physics, that's important or astrophysics. Did you read that book A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking? Neither did I, I couldn't get past page fifteen, I haven't met anybody who could finish it, it was incomprehensible to me, yes, the man is brilliant I"m sure, but that book, it was a best seller but I don't think anybody really read it, do you? Then there's history and chemistry and cartography and medicine, I could go into that, I could have a very rewarding career in any of those fields, but here's my problem. What do I focus on? Granted, I could be on of those all around multi-career type people, but in order to be the best in the field, I think I should narrow my energies to one field of study. But which one, that's the question. Because if I choose one over another, am I then depriving myself and in a way, the world, am I depriving all of us of some insight, some discovery, some creation, something that would lie, you know, dormant till I came along? This is the dilemma I face."
let me know what you think...