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Gaelle Posted at 9:20 am on Dec. 16, 2008
I made a topic about having to audition with a poem tomorrow. It's for the part of Bella in "Lost in Yonkers." For Bella it's basically a coming of age story, even though she's 35 years old. Mentally she's still a child.

The poem is meant to showcase how well I can find rhythm in a text. The second part of the audition will be an improvisation. The poem doesn't really need to have anything to do with the play. I'm just not sure whether the second one sounds far too arrogant.  

These are my options:

A) IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!  

B) Phenomenal woman by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.  

Replies
HuffleHaire Posted at 9:42 am on Dec. 16, 2008
I really love Maya. B
J U S T Posted at 9:34 am on Dec. 16, 2008
Maya Angelou's poems always read well, so I would use option B.
Aqueous Posted at 9:32 am on Dec. 16, 2008
B. I love Maya Anjelou.
Kitty Kiska Posted at 9:29 am on Dec. 16, 2008
I like B
surfrgrl Posted at 9:23 am on Dec. 16, 2008
personally, i like the second one. but practice both in front of a mirror, and pick the one that you can put the most feeling into. the one that you can perform with your whole soul. that's the one you should do.
WickedWiccan Posted at 9:23 am on Dec. 16, 2008
I like B more.
Love Me please Posted at 9:21 am on Dec. 16, 2008
a for sure it is awesome
tick Posted at 9:21 am on Dec. 16, 2008
A has better rhythm
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