Monologue #1:

Today is going to be an amazing day, and here’s why.  Because today, all you have to do is just be yourself. (beat)

But also confident.  That’s important.  And interesting.  Easy to talk to.  Approachable.  But mostly be yourself.  That’s the big, that’s number one.  Be yourself.  Be true to yourself.

Also, though, don’t worry about whether your hands are going to get sweaty for no reason and you can’t make it stop no matter what you do, because they’re not going to get sweaty, so I don’t even know why you’re bringing it up, because it’s not going to happen, because you’re just, all you have to do is be yourself.

Monologue #2:

Look, do you want to listen to me or do you want to have another meltdown like last year in English when you were supposed to give that speech about Daisy Buchanan, but instead you just stood there starting at your notecards and saying, “um, um, um”, over and over again like you were having a brain aneurysm?

(beat)

I didn’t say, “lie”.  All you have to do is just nod and confirm.  Whatever they say about Connor, you just nod your head and you say, yeah, that’s true.  Don’t contradict and don’t make shit up.  It’s foolproof.  Literally, nothing I tell my parents is true and they have no idea.

Monologue #3:

Hey you.  I have some very exciting news.  Look what I found online today:  college scholarship essay contests.  Have you heard of these?  NPR did a whole thing about it this morning.  There are a million different ones you can do.  A million different topics.  I spent my whole lunch break looking these up.

The John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Scholarship – three thousand dollars, college of your choice.  Henry David Thoreau Society, five thousand dollars…
College is going to be so great for you, honey.  How many times in life do you get the chance to just…start all over again?  You’ve got so much, so many wonderful things ahead of you.  High school isn’t always…the only people that like high school are cheerleaders and football players and those people all end up miserable anyway.  Yeah, you’re going to find yourself in college.  I really think so.  I mean, I wish I could go with you…but…I just thought these were…it seemed like a neat idea.

Monologue #4:

Hey everybody, it’s me Alana, Connor Project co-president, associate treasurer, media consultant, chief technology officer, and assistant creative director slash public policy director for creative public policy initiatives for The Connor Project.

Wish I could see all of your amazing faces out there.   Now, I know a lot of you guys have seen the inspirational videos on our website.  As you know, Connor’s favorite place in the entire world was the incredible Autumn Smile Apple Orchard, which tragically closed seven years ago.  Connor loved trees.  Connor was obsessed with trees. He and Evan used to spend hours together sitting at the orchard, looking at the trees…being with the trees, sharing fun facts they knew about the trees.

Monologue #5:

We wanted to speak with you in private.  If you’d like to maybe… (gesture to a chair) We’re, uh…we’re Connor’s parents.  This is…Connor…he wanted you to have this.  We didn’t…we’d never heard your name before, Connor never…but then we saw…”Dear Evan Hansen.”  We didn’t know that you two were friends.

We didn’t think that Connor had any friends.  And then we see this note and it’s, this seems to suggest pretty clearly that you and Connor were, or at least for Connor, he thought of you as… I mean it’s right there.  “Dear Evan Hansen.”  It’s addressed to you.  He wrote it to you.  These are the words he wanted to share with you.  His last words.