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Post by Boot on Feb 1, 2010 17:12:47 GMT -5
....What's bad about Seussical?
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Post by Alexa Ateara on Feb 1, 2010 17:18:43 GMT -5
horton and gertrude have relations...
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Post by Boot on Feb 1, 2010 17:19:48 GMT -5
Then I guess I don't know what version you're talking about...
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Post by Alexa Ateara on Feb 1, 2010 17:31:37 GMT -5
the non jr version
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Post by Boot on Feb 1, 2010 17:40:16 GMT -5
Oh. Well, I still wanna do the Seussical one. We can cut that or whatever, like you said.
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Post by angelarox on Feb 1, 2010 18:18:35 GMT -5
I am doing Luann right now.
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Post by Lacey on Feb 1, 2010 21:20:26 GMT -5
If we're doing suessical the musical... I wanna make one of my characters the cat in the hat :]
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Post by zane on Feb 1, 2010 21:25:12 GMT -5
Isn't the Cat and the Hat a lead role?...
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Post by Lacey on Feb 1, 2010 21:28:26 GMT -5
He's the narrator
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Post by zane on Feb 1, 2010 21:37:52 GMT -5
Ohhhh.
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Post by Leila (Shoe) on Feb 2, 2010 16:34:10 GMT -5
Pshtt.... Wolves don't need no costume. xD
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Post by Alexa Ateara on Feb 2, 2010 16:53:52 GMT -5
yea the cat is the main one...jojo horton and kinda gertrude are the others...but joj and thecat is the main. the competitioon would be for those. and i shottie mayzie the bird and the director
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Post by Boot on Feb 2, 2010 16:56:24 GMT -5
Who's Jojo, Gertrude, and Mayzie?
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Post by Scarlett Stewart on Feb 2, 2010 17:25:58 GMT -5
Wikipedia Summary: The Songs are in Parenthesis Act I
("Overture") The story begins with a bare stage, save for an odd multi-colored circle background. At the center of this background sits the The Cat in the Hat. The Cat greets the audience and tells them to brace themselves for a crazy and wacky tale. He then begins to create the Seussian world around him ("Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!"), and he acts as the narrator for the remainder of the musical, as well as playing some of the minor roles. The audience is brought to the Jungle of Nool, where Horton the Elephant (from Horton Hears a Who and Horton Hatches the Egg) is bathing.
Horton hears a strange noise coming from a speck of dust, and, convinced there must be someone on it, rescues the speck and places it on a clover to guard ("Horton Hears a Who"). The other animals (especially the "Sour Kangaroo", a matriarch of the jungle) mock him mercilessly for this, except for Gertrude McFuzz (from The One Feather Tail of Miss Gertrude McFuzz), who admires his compassion and begins to fall in love with him. ("Biggest Blame Fool"). However, Horton soon hears the mysterious voice again, which turns out to belong to the Mayor of "Who", a dust-speck planet covered with microscopic inhabitants called Whos. The Cat in the Hat zooms in on the dust speck so the Whos are revealed to the audience. The Mayor of Who and the Whos reveal their planet is so small and fragile they are constantly threatened with death, and beg Horton to help protect them now their cries have reached him. His resolve strengthened, Horton promises he will guard the dust speck, saying "A person's a person, no matter how small." ("Here on Who")
At this point, the Cat in the Hat shows us the mayor's family where, at the moment, the mayor's son, Jojo, is being scolded for thinking "thinks" at school, imaginary thoughts which have apparently disrupted his classes and aroused the ire of his teachers. Although he tries not to think thinks anymore, he starts to imagine his tub is McElligot's pool (from McElligot's Pool) where his thinks soon spiral out of control ("It's Possible") and cause time to fly and he goes to bed. Frustrated, the Mayor and his wife agree to "lay down the law" but are unsure of just how to discipline their son ("How to Raise a Child"). After receiving a brochure, they decide to send him to a military school run by a misguided warmonger named General Genghis Khan Schmitz (from I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew), who is preparing to go to war with those who eat their bread butter side down (as in The Butter Battle Book) ("The Military").
Meanwhile, Horton (who is still being ridiculed by the Citizens of the Jungle) decides to talk with the Whos again for encouragement. He then meets Jojo, with whom he bonds instantly as a fellow social outcast ("Alone in the Universe"). The next day, Gertrude (whose feelings for Horton are still strong) laments that her tail only has one feather, believing its sorry sight is the reason Horton is not noticing her ("The One Feather Tail of Miss Gertrude McFuzz"). At the advice of Mayzie La Bird (from Horton Hatches the Egg), whose tail is enormous and dazzling, Gertrude obtains pills from Doctor Dake (played by the Cat) which Mayzie promises will make her tail "almost as amazing" as hers ("Amayzing Mayzie/Amayzing Gertrude"). Gertrude is so excited about her tail, she overdoses.
Meanwhile, Horton is ambushed by a group of mischievous monkeys called the Wickersham Brothers ("Monkey Around") who steal the clover and run off with it. Horton gives chase until the monkeys give the clover to a eagle named Vlad Vladikoff, who drops it into a large patch of identical clovers "one hundred miles wide" ("Chasing the Whos"). The Cat in the Hat abruptly freezes the action and delivers an ironically cheery tune to the audience, telling them how fortunate they are not to be the Whos ("How Lucky You Are"). As Horton begins to look for the clover, Gertrude, whose tail is now gorgeous (if impractically large) catches up to him and tries to attract his attention. Horton, however, is so intently focused on his mission he does not notice her, and a dejected Gertrude retreats to take more pills ("Notice Me, Horton"). Mayzie LaBird, who has just been abandoned by her lover and left with an egg, interrupts Horton's search and begs him to sit on it so she can take an afternoon off ("How Lucky You Are (Mayzie's Reprise)"). Horton reluctantly agrees, and Mayzie flies away: never to return. As winter approaches, Horton debates whether he should keep incubating the egg or resume looking for the Whos, but he soon is left with only one choice as he is captured by hunters. Gertrude makes an attempt to rescue Horton, but the size and weight of her new tail prevents her from flying ("Horton Sits on the Egg"). Horton, Gertrude, and The Cat in the Hat, backed by the full company, sings a reprise of "How Lucky You Are" to finish off Act I.
Act II
At the top of the act, Horton is transported to New York City and auctioned off to the circus ("Egg, Nest, and Tree"), where he laments his sorry state. Meanwhile, Mayzie is lazing about in Palm Beach, where she admits she tires of the monotony of sunbathing "day after day" ("How Lucky You Are (Reprise)"). After receiving an advertisement from the Cat in the Hat, she decides to attend the Circus, where she reunites with Horton and the egg. Despite Horton's pleas for her to take it back, Mayzie just congratulates him on the "fortune" he has made off it, praising him as "The egg-sitting circus sensation". In an act of 'kindness', Mayzie 'gives' the egg to Horton to keep forever ("Amazing Horton"). Alone with the egg, a sorrowful Horton vows to nurture it himself ("Alone in the Universe (Reprise)"). Determined anew, he sings the egg a lullaby about a magical world called "Solla Sollew" Solla Sollew, a kind of Seussian utopia he longs to reach. At the same time, Jojo, lost in the clover field, writes his parents a letter from Military School, wishing they could all be in Solla Sollew as well.
On Christmas Day, Jojo and his fellow cadets are deployed to fight in the Butter Battle. At the front lines, Jojo finally summons the courage to confront General Schmitz, declaring his belief in the immorality of the war and deserting the army. However, he imprudently decides to dash across a minefield, triggering the mines and causing an explosion which seemingly destroys him ("Green Eggs and Ham (Transition to Butter Battle)"). The Cat in the Hat, however, reveals to the audience that Jojo did in fact survive; he is now lost in some dark place far from Whoville and unaware of which way to turn. After an angry confrontation, Jojo forgives the Cat in the Hat for his perceived offenses, taking his advice and trusting his hunches to lead him back home. At last, he and his parents share a joyful embrace ("Havin' a Hunch").
Back at the Circus, Gertrude reappears and frees a bewildered Horton. She tells him how she finally swallowed her pride, got her tail feathers plucked, and flew across the world to rescue Horton and find the Whos' clover ("All For You"). Ecstatic that the Whos are finally safe, Horton finally begins to fall in love with Gertrude. However, their happiness is soon crushed as the Sour Kangaroo and the Wickersham Brothers appear out of nowhere, drag Horton back to the Jungle of Nool, and put him on trial for the crimes of "talking to a speck and sitting on an egg". Gertrude and Horton make a stand at the case, but all in vain; Yertle the Turtle orders the clover to be boiled in a kettle of beezlenut oil. Aghast, Horton begs the Whos to shout to prove their existence, which nearly fails until Jojo comes up with a "think": the word "YOPP," whose peculiar sound is just enough to reach the jungle creatures' ears ("The People Versus Horton the Elephant"). The court acquits Horton and the Sour Kangaroo repents, swearing from then on she will help Horton protect the Whos. In Whoville, Jojo is honored as "Thinker Non-Stop" and finally wins the appreciation of his parents.
Suddenly, the egg hatches, and to everyone's surprise a tiny "Elephant-Bird" emerges as a result of Horton having sat on it for so long. Horton panics, realizing he can't handle flying progeny, but Gertrude promises him that as Horton "teaches him earth", she will "teach him sky". They agree to raise the child together ("Alone in the Universe (Reprise)"). The Cat in the Hat appears one final time to sum things up ("Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (Reprise)"). The curtain call is accompanied by a final number set to a song titled Green Eggs and Ham. [edit] Seussical The Musical: Jr.
The Junior version of Seussical was changed from the full-length Broadway version to make it shorter and more accessible for younger actors. The biggest change involves Jojo, who is initially an anonymous boy who thinks up The Cat in the Hat when he finds a strange hat at center stage. The Cat helps the boy create the Seussian universe and the rest of the story. He later shoves the boy into the story, making him play the role of Jojo. There is also additional dialogue, as well as the deletion of some songs and their reprises.
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