Please pick one of the two monologues below for your audition. You do not need to learn the monologue off by heart, reading from a print out or digital device is allowed. 

 

 

Show: My Fair Lady

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Cockney Monologue:

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“I’ve come to ‘ave lessons, I ‘ave. And to pay for ‘em too, make no mistake. If you were a gentleman, you might ask me to sit down, I fink. Don’t I tell you I’m bringing you business? I want to be a lady in a flower shop instead of sellin’ flowers at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won’t take me unless I can talk more genteel. You said you could teach me. Well ‘ere I am, ready to pay, not askin’ any favour, and you treat me as if I was dirt! I know what lessons cost and I’m ready to pay. I know what’s right. A lady friend of mine gets French lessons for h’eighteen pence an hour from a real French gennulmun. Well, you wouldn’t ‘ave the face to ask me the same for teaching me my own language as you would for French; so I won’t give you more than a shilling. Take it or leave it. 

 

Posh Monologue:

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I should never have known how ladies and gentlemen behave if it hadn’t been for Colonel Pickering. He always showed me that he felt and thought about me as if I were something better than a common flower girl. You see, Mrs. Higgins, apart from the things one can pick up, the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will. But I know that I shall always be a lady to Colonel Pickering because he always treats me as a lady, and always will.