Musical Theatre:"Mock Audition"

In this week we have to prepare 32 bars of an appropriate musical theater songs. Sheet music must be cello-taped.  Starts, stops, and cuts must be clearly marked. Also we have to create a classical monologue, no longer than 1 minute.  The monologue should contrast your song and embody the character that you would like to audition for. It is also required to make a short video describing, explaining, and analysing the suitability of your chosen audition material for this audition.

The title of my monologue is 'Hera and Zeus' taken from 'Dialogues of the Gods' 

HERA: You should be ashamed of yourself! Lord of the gods! Hah! Your behavior wouldn’t be proper even if you were some mortal peasant! You desert me, your lawful wife, and go carousing with mortal women at all hours of the day and night with no consideration for my feelings! It’s not respectable! At least those sluts of yours remained on Earth, while you’ve brought this youth from Ida into my own house! He actually lives with us! I have to pick up after him! Oh, I’ve seen how you take the cup from him! Everyone sees! It’s embarrassing! Even when you’re not thirsty! After tasting, you hand the cup back and insist that he drink too, then you receive it again, all googly-eyed, making sure to take the remainder from the spot where the boy has placed his lips so you can drink and kiss at the same time in front of us all! Do you really think we’re so dim-witted that we can’t see it?! And this morning, I actually witnessed you, the King and father of the universe, with that big beard you’ve grown, lay aside your aegis and thunderbolt to play a game of marbles with the boy! You’ll take any excuse to get close to him, and don’t think that I don’t see it! Zeus, King of the Gods—a pedophile and a degenerate!

Dialogues of the Gods are 25 minutes dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek Gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata

The title of my song is 'Don't cry for me Argentina' taken from 'Evita'.

[Eva:]
It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done

You won't believe me
All you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you

I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun

So I chose freedom
Running around, trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to

[Chorus:]

Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance

And as for fortune, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired

They are illusions
They are not the solutions they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me

Don't cry for me Argentina

[chorus]

Have I said too much?
There's nothing more I can think of to say to you.
But all you have to do is look at me to know
That every word is true

"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" is a song recorded by Julie Covington for the 1976 concept album,  Evita, and was later included in the 1978 musical of the same name. The song was written and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice while they were researching about the life of Argentinian leader Eva Perón. It appeared at the opening and near the end of the show, initially as the spirit of the dead Eva exhorting the people of Argentina not to mourn her, and finally during Eva's speech from the balcony of Casa Rosada. Covington was signed by the songwriters for the track, based on her previous work in musicals.

I am linking a video of me explaining why I chose the monologue and the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj5nVga7ysg&feature=youtu.be