THE JUDY MONOLOGUES
Conceived and edited by Darren Stewart-Jones
Published by Darren Stewart-Jones at Smashwords
Copyright 2010 by Darren Stewart-Jones
Cover photo by Mark Tara. (Kimberly Roberts as Judy Garland)
In the mid-1960s, with her career and finances fading, Judy Garland was encouraged by literary agent Irving “Swifty” Lazar to record voice tapes for an autobiography that would never be written. Garland seems to have used these recordings not just as biographical notes but rather as therapy sessions with a non-existent psychiatrist. Several years ago, the tapes were released to the general public in CD format and are now floating around out there in cyberspace.
The Judy Monologues comprises most of these rare tape recordings, compiled and edited as a script for a one-act play. In the original production, film clips of Garland from MGM’s Till The Clouds Roll By (which is in the Public Domain) were used in between monologues.
The Judy Monologues was first performed on September 2nd, 2010 at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. The original cast consisted of Philip Cairns, Ryan Fisher and Darren Stewart-Jones with Kimberly Roberts as Miss Judy Garland in silent vignettes. Nigel Gough (1982-2010) was the understudy. The production was directed by Darren Stewart-Jones.