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Angels in America Audition Scenes and Monologues.
Everyone should pick three pieces to present at auditions. One must be from a scene and one must be a monologue. The third choice may be a scene or a monologue. Everyone must pick at least two different characters, preferably three. Woman must choose either the monologue of the Rabbi or Henry. Three additional rolls will be cast, along with the Angel, to represent the four emanations.
Scenes:
Joe and Roy – page 15
Prior and Louis – page 22
Joe and Harper – page 26 (Joe-You aren’t even making sense) to end of page 27
Joe and Louis – page 29
Prior and Belize – page 59 Prior and Voice (woman) – page 62
Joe and Hannah – page 75
Sister Ella Chapter and Hannah – page 82
Prior and Prior 1 – page 86
Monologues:
Rabbi (woman) – page 10
Harper – page 16-
Prior – page 41
Henry (woman) – page 42
Joe – page 53
Roy – page 58
Louis – page 92
Belize – page 96
Hannah – page 103
Character Arc, Actions and Descriptions
Roy M. Cohn (Fire) – He represents the cold, compassionless force of nature, the survival of the fittest. There is no moral code – actions are not judged and/or emotionalized. Actions, choices just are. Power is life, life is power and any other philosophy threatens existence of the self. The acceptance of anything else betrays man a weak and subservient.
Joseph Porter Pitt (Air) – He is average, not consumed by being elevated or living prominently in society. He strives to live morally pure through his spiritual beliefs but is failed by his struggles with his true sexual identity. He has a learned belief that life is morally prescribed by the divine and that the self/inner identity must adjust, mature, adapt or evolve to reach that purity. While he knows his homosexuality is his true inner identity he cannot accept that inner nature as real as it destroys his moral/ethical beliefs.
Harper Amaty Pitt (Water) – She is fragile, broken and scared. She has followed faithfully the moral construct she was raised under but has received nothing in return. She accepts this as a failure of her own and as a punishment she deserves. She yearns to be free of this fate but has no idea of who she is or who she will become if she ever manages to do so.
Louis Ironson (Earth) – Average guy with little ambition, easily satisfied with the base fulfillment of life’s basic needs. He doesn’t desire much more than a good meal, a good day and a good sex life. He accepts his homosexuality but freely hides it from society when it helps him, avoiding all hassle. He fails and fears accepting that life is complex and demands devotion and commitment. He sees the world in shades of black and white and is repelled by shades of grays. He is plagued by the guilt of his inactions and inability to sacrifice for others, namely, Prior.
Prior Walter (Phosphor) – He is a representative Everyman, or at least every good man. He is pure in his love but does understand love’s fallacies. He is pure of heart but is affected by betrayal, as the rest of us are. Hardship does not affect his natural ability to see clearly and use his insight into others even when his is challenged by both a physical disease and a symbolically diseased society. He is the ideal choice to be a savior/prophet because he will ultimately refuse the choice and power. He believes he is not divine and man can never be divine.
Hannah Porter Pitt (Lumen) – She is a hardened, yet fragile woman, chiseled in stone from the moral construct of her upbringing. She is also a potential vessel of evolution and change. In Millennium, she is given the action of coming to the rescue of her son Joe, even though she is at this time in life, incapable of understanding his problems and how her beliefs have crippled her son. She must first wander through a lost and diseased wilderness, learn from the experience, and then renew her life with a new system of belief. This is only realized in Perestroika – in this play she is wandering.
Belize (Fluor) – He is as close to an angel a person can be on earth. He is nurturing, forgiving and has the innate ability to care. He is non-judgmental and yet believes life is to be lived morally just. He acts as a confidant for others and assists them as morally and ethically as is humanely possible. He accepts life is to be reveled in even in the midst of its cruel destruction and devastation.
