Overview
Character Name
Mona
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Role Size
Featured
Dramatic Function
Comic Relief, Narrator/Chorus
Relationships
Dancing
Dancer
Voice
Mezzo-Soprano
Vocal Range
High Note: C#5/Db5
Low Note: A3
Vocal Technique
Belting
Time & Place
Chicago, late 1920s
Analysis
Mona is a prisoner in the Cook County Jail, where she has been accused of her lover’s murder. She explains that her lover, Al Lipschitz, was an artist. Mona found Al’s free-spiritedness intriguing, and supported his urge to “go out and and find himself.” However, when she
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