At a glance: DRAMATIC · 60–75 SECONDS
Best for: teen/young-adult acting practice, class work, or auditions that allow original material
Word count: 139 words
Format: one speaker addressing a silent listener
Timing: approximate; time your own delivery before using it for a strict audition limit
One More Song Before We Go: full monologue
Don’t put the stands away yet.
Just one more.
I know rehearsal is over. I know Mr. Patel already turned off half the lights.
But this is the last time all of us are going to be in this room like this.
Next week there’s graduation, and after that everybody starts saying things like, “We’ll definitely keep in touch,” which is how you know we probably won’t.
So one more song.
Not the concert piece. Not the hard one.
The first one.
The terrible one we played freshman year when nobody could count measure thirty-two and the trumpets came in three beats early.
I hated that song.
I still hate that song.
But I want to hear what it sounds like now.
Before we become people who used to play together.
One more time.
Then we can pack up.
What’s happening in this monologue?
You are speaking to your school music group at the end of the final rehearsal before graduation.
Acting questions to explore
- Why choose the first, imperfect piece instead of the best one?
- Who are you most afraid of losing touch with?
- Where does the request become more than a request for music?
Use these as rehearsal questions, not fixed answers. The point is to make a specific choice and stay responsive rather than copy a single “correct” performance.
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How to memorize this monologue
- Picture the room before departure: stands, lights and the people about to leave. Learn the words attached to each detail, then check the order.
- Recall the memory of the first song separately, including its musical mistakes. Rehearse the change from disliking that song to wanting it back now.
- Start at the request to hear it again and carry through the ending. Then run the full piece toward one bandmate who has already begun packing.
For a complete short-deadline routine, use How to Memorize a Monologue. For active-recall exercises, see How to Memorize Lines.
Why CueRoom helps: reading the speech is not the same as retrieving it. Put permitted text into CueRoom, hide your lines, prompt yourself when a phrase disappears, and return to the exact transition that keeps breaking.
More monologues to explore
- The Empty Chair — a quieter friendship piece built around absence.
- The Practice Room Door — another music-room situation with a decisive ending.
- Four Minutes Until the Train — a sharper farewell with a deadline.
Explore this gender-flexible piece alongside roles written as women in Monologues for Women, with playing-age guidance and contrasting audition pairs.
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Working to a short time limit? Compare this piece with the one-minute monologue selection, then time your own delivery with pauses. The full text and prerecorded demo stay the same.
Explore this piece alongside the other dramatic monologue selections, with guidance on the listener, the request and the change you can rehearse.