Here are dozens of enthusiastically received soliloquies from two plays by Charles Mee: Things Women Say and Stuff Guys Say. As one of the guys says:

"There was a time long ago, in prehistoric times when cicadas were human beings back before the Muses were born. And then when the Muses were born and song came into being some of these human creatures were so taken by the pleasure of it that they sang and sang and sang. And they forgot to eat or drink they just sang and sang and so, before they knew it, they died."