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| Line Before | Line(s) |
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| Jojo- or some kind of hat-wearing… Cat! | Cat- I can see you’ve got quite a mind for your age! Why one thing and you’ve dragged me right onto the stage! Now I’m here, there’s no telling what may ensue With a cat such as me, and a thinker like you! |
| End of OH, THE THINKS YOU CAN THINK | Cat- an unusual story will soon be unfurled Of an elephant trying to save a small world And a boy from the world who has thinks just like you! Just think! |
| Jojo- Suess! | Cat- our story begins with a very strange sound The drums of a jungle beginning to pound Now imagine a sky! |
| Jojo- I’ll imagine bright blue! | Cat- it’s the jungle of Nool! |
| Song - HORTON HEARS A WHO | Cat- now think of an elephant lumbering through |
| Jojo- Horton | Cat- yes, Horton! Horton hears a Who! |
| Song: BIGGEST BLAME FOOL | Cat- Our topic today is “psychic elephant who hear voices.” whaddaya think folks? Is the elephant off his trunk? Let’s take it over to speck, Clover, dust, neighbor, who, Nothing! Stay tuned! We’ll be right back! |
| Mayor- Help! Help! | Cat- then the voice came again, calling over and over- |
| Mayor- Help! | Cat- so he tried to think Who might be down on that clover? |
| Song: HERE ON WHO | Cat: an invisible world. Amazing but true. Willie Horton to listen, and we’ll zoom in on who. But guess who enters the story now? |
| Jojo- Who? | Cat- You! |
| Mrs. Mayor- mom and dad are just home from the Who PTA. | Cat- And here’s there very own Jojo! |
| Mrs. Mayor- In trouble again! | Cat- cause his things taken places were no one has been! |
| Jojo- you got me in trouble! Get out! Go away! | Cat- all right, all right, I’ll be going. But first, let me say: |
| Jojo- good night, Horton. See you in Solla Sallew! | Cat- wake up wake up the scene is over! There’s more to be heard. There goes a hero. Who enters? |
| Gertrude- … of some kind of pill that will make my tail grow? | Cat (as Dr. Dake)- Tut tut said the doctor. Such talk! It’s too absurd! Your little tail is just right for your kind of bird! |
| Gertrude- Huh?!? | Cat (As Dr. Dake)- in other words your little tail is just right for your kind of bird! |
| Gertrude- then Gertrude had tantrums. She raised such a din that finally the doctors had to give. | Cat (as Dr. Dake)- all right already! Bring in the pill- berry bush! |
| Jojo- So Gertrude is happy. Her tails nice and long. | Cat- Kid, fasten your seatbelt. Cause now things go wrong! |
| Song: CHASING THE WHOS | Cat- this is the cat in the hat live from sky camp five. Folks the jungle of Noel is one heck of a drive. We’ve got monkeys back up to the 302, I’d find alternate routes if I were you! |
| Song: HOW LUCKY YOU ARE | Cat- we’re here in this beautiful theater and you’re in the first row! How lucky to be in the theater! More lucky than you know! You could have a look over our hero, whose luck has been running low FOR CERTAIN Curtain! |
| Song: HOW LUCKY YOU ARE (REPRISE) | Cat- It’s time for a brief intermission Which means that Act one is through So go have a nice intermission (the lobby is a real zoo!) But we’ve gotta fix up the stage And get ready to play act two! |
| Beginning of Act 2 | Cat- Suess! And now, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve all been waiting for without further ado presenting Act… |
| Jojo- Wait!! What happens to Horton? Does Horton get free? Does Horton find JoJo? | Cat- There’s no guarantee! |
| Jojo- Will the egg be OK? | Cat- I’ll give you a clue: When act one is done, what happens? |
| Jojo- Act Two! | Cat- when we lost our hero He was hopelessly, trapped! |
| Horton- … I said I would stay. | Cat- the Whos had all crash And their whole town was scrapped |
| Jojo- … sir, why do we keep on marching around? | Cat- and Gertrude was helpless. I think you know why. Her tail was so long she could no longer fly. |
| Gertrude- Horton! Horton! | Cat- so our story resumes on a terrible day as Horton gets, carried away |
| Bird Girls- then Horton was taken to auction… | Cat- good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Suessebys. Our first item up to bid this evening is a lot 39 a pen is pachyderm on egg nest and tree. The bedding will begin at $10,000. Do I hear 10 10,000? Going once, going twice… So to the man w |
| SOLD, SOLD, SOLD EGG NEST AND TREE… | Step right up ladies and gentlemen, children and creatures, the smallest small, and the tallest of all! Come, old and young! Come one and all! It’s a circus, McGurkus, the world’s greatest show on the face of the Earth or wherever you go! The Circus McGu |
| Song: CIRCUS McGURKUS CAT- COME SEE THE SHOW | Cat- and now, all your folks, for the first time on view, From the jungle of Nool, near the river wallop A pen is pachyderm! Look! Can it be? Who sits on egg… In a nest… In a tree! |
| ALL- Come on in | Cat- kalamazoo Shark River Hills Dubuque Clearwater |
| Song: SOLLA SOLLEW | Cat (sobbing): how sad. Oh how sad. How unspeakably dreary. The parents despairing and terribly teary. Their poor little JoJo, no longer alive. But wait! Could it be! That’s the kid did survive? A reenactment! |
| Cat with Jojo Doll | Cat (as the general): it’s a mindful out there! This is no time for play! Cat (as Jojo): sir, I think what I think. Now get out of my way! Cat (as the general): soldier, you will obey! You will halt! JoJo, come back! JoJo wait! |
| Jojo- You mean that’s it? | Cat- That’s it. It’s all in your mind. Your thinker, JoJo, tried and true. I don’t have to meet real thinkers like you. |
| Jojo- I want to go home. | Cat- well that’s easy to do just follow your hunches. They’ll lead you home to who THINK A BRIDGE TO THE SHORE AND A ROAD TO YOUR DOOR You’ll be home before lunch |
| Song:ALL FOR YOU GERTRUDE: So I ran to the Doctor | Cat (as Dr. Dake)- the doctor named Dake, and she said: |
| Gertrude- my tail has been a mistake! | Cat (as Dr. Dake)- And she said: |
| Song: THE PEOPLE VS HORTON THE ELEPHANT Order, order, order, order in the court! | Cat (as Marshall) -the defendants charge of talking to a spec, disturbing the peace, and loitering… On an egg! |
| Song: THE PEOPLE VS HORTON THE ELEPHANT Horton, Mr. And Mrs. Mayor- Jojo think of something | Cat- now just for a moment, young Jojo looks grim. The fade of the hose rested squarely on him! But then can you think of particular new word the kind of a word no one had ever heard! |
| Song: THE PEOPLE VS HORTON THE ELEPHANT Baby Kangaroo- ME TOO | Cat- Their troubles were ended. They held his great… |
| All- Yopp | Cat- and JoJo was honored as “Thinker Non-stop!” |
| Mr. and Mrs. Mayor- Now all JoJo thinks would forever be heard. | Cat- including this thing… |
| Song: ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE (REPRISE) | Cat- The adventures were over. The sky became… |
| Jojo- Pink! | Cat- And then guess what happened? Well, what do you think? |