Seusical the Musical – Script

Girl – Leora Raveendra

Cat – Freya Castle Bird girl 1 – Mila Norburn Yurtle the Turtle – Torben Atherton
Horton – Emily Wilkinson Bird girl 2 – Annabel Nabukeera Mr Mayor – Poppy Crack
Wickersham 1 – Rosie Walker Bird boy 3 – Cooper Burgess Mrs Mayor – Cherry Chambers
Wickersham 2 – Nola Riney Bird girl 4 – Amy Buraima Jo Jo – Millie Vagg
Wickersham 3 –Thea-Rose Lloyd Bird girl 5 – Isabella Kingman Thing 1 – Florence Meaton
Mayzie La Bird – Sasha Cernikova Thing 2 – Summer-Rose Butler Russel
Gertrude McFuzz – Freja Stow Grinch – Millie Thornton
Sour Kangaroo – Faye Jenner
Girl: Now that is a very unusual hat. I wonder what’s under a hat such as that? It
could be a creature they call the Ga-Zat. Who balances things on his head cause it’s
flat. Or a stripe-loving pipestar from upper Mount Bat. Or a sort of a kind of a hat
wearing…cat.

Cat: I can see that you’ve got quite a mind for your age! Why one think and you
dragged me right onto this stage. Now I’m here, there is no telling what may ensue.
With a cat such as me, and a thinker like you! Our story begins with a very strange
sound.

Wickersham brothers: The drum of a jungle beginning to pound.

Cat: Now, imagine a sky.

Girl: I’ll imagine bright blue.

Cat: It’s the jungle of Nool.

Bird Girls: Near the river Walloo!

Cat: Now think of an elephant lumking through.

Girl: Horton.

Birds: Yes Horton!

Girl: Horton hears a who!

Wickersham 1: On the 15th of May, in the jungle of Nool.

Wickersham 2: In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool, he was splashing.

Wickersham 3: Enjoying the jungles great joys, when Horton the elephant…

Wickersham 1: That silly old elephant…

Girl: Horton the elephant heard a small noise.

Mr Mayor: Help! Help!

Bird Girl 1: So Horton stopped splashing. He looked toward the sound.

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Horton: That’s funny.

Bird Girl 2: Thought Horton.

Horton: There’s no one around.

Bird Boy 3: Then he heard It again!

Mayzie: Just a very faint yelp.

Bird Girl 4: Then again and again…

Bird Girl 5: As if some tiny person were calling for help.

Mrs Mayor: Help us! Help us!

Horton: I’ll help you! But who are you and where?

Bird Girl 1: He looked and he looked.

Bird Girl 2: He could see nothing there.

Bird Boy 3: The sky was empty and the ground quite bare.

Bird Girl 4: He stood there confused and puzzling aghast.

Mayzie: Then a small speck of dust came blowing past.

Horton: I say how confusing! I’ve never heard tell of a small speck of dust that is
able to yell. I think there must be someone on top of that small speck of dust! Some
poor little person, who’s shaking with fear. I’ll just have to save him, because after
all…

Girl and Cat: A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Thing 1: We’ve never heard such nonsense; it just isn’t true.

Thing 2: That Horton’s so stupid, no wonder he’s looking blue.

Thing 1: Show us this speck of dust, then we will see,

Thing 2: Here it is! It’s smaller than the planet’s smallest pea!

Sour Kangaroo: Why, that speck is as small as the head of a pin. A person on that?
Why, there has never been!

Wickersham 1: You’re the biggest blame fool, in the jungle of Nool.

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Sour Kangaroo: I don’t care who I tell, the biggest blame fool in the jungle of Nool.
Maybe I’m nasty, maybe I’m cruel but you’re the biggest blame fool.

Horton: It’s true. Please believe me. I tell you sincerely. My ears are quite keen and
I heard him quite clearly.

Wickersham 2: Ha laughed a voice!

Wickersham 3: He-he laughed some more.

Wickersham 2: Ha-he-ha. This Horton’s a bore!

Wickersham 3: Then laughed some others!

Mayzie: Ha, Ha, Ha laughed the Wickersham brothers!

Wickersham 1: We’ve been out on limb, looking down on him.

Wickersham 2: And he’s fat.

Wickersham 3: He’s dumb.

Wickersham 1: He’s thick.

Bird Girl 1: He’s slow.

Sour Kangaroo: Elephants aint too swift as a rule, you know.

Yurtle: But he’s the biggest blame fool.

Bird girl 2: Bird’s rule, elephants drool.

Bird Boy 3: Through the jungle, the news quickly flew.

Bird Girl 4: But poor Horton was still puzzling without a clue.

Bird Girl 5: Did you hear?

Yurtle: Did you hear?

Mayzie: Did you hear?

Yurtle: He talks to a speck of dust! It’s on Channel two!

Cat: Our topic today is ‘psychic elephants who hear voices’. Whaddaya think folks…
is the elephant off his trunk?

Gertrude: I’m Gertrude McFuzz and I live next door. He’s never done anything crazy
before. He’s always been friendly and loyal and kind. I just don’t believe Horton’s…

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Sour Kangaroo: OUT OF HIS MIND!

Gertrude: He’s really quite lovely and I don’t believe what you say. Someone needs
to check on him and see if he’s ok.

Mayzie: I’m Mayzie La Bird and I live in that tree. Enough about Horton, let’s talk
about me! I’m fabulous and desired wherever I go, unlike Horton who’s at an
unpopular all-time low.

Yurtle: Telling lies, making jokes, it’s an elephant hoax.

Thing 1: Brother, that’s against the law!

Bird Girl 1: Breaking the peace, creating a fuss.

Sour Kangaroo: Somebody’s thinking different to us!

Thing 1: This is something we simply cannot allow.

Thing 2: Let’s ignore this fool, starting from now.

Gertrude: On the 15th of May, Miss Gertrude McFuzz discovered how truly unique
Horton was…

Cat: But she knew to approach him would probably fail…

Gertrude: Cause who’d notice a bird with a one feather tail.

Mr Mayor: Help! Help!

Cat: The voice came again.

Horton: Hello is anyone there?

Mr Mayor: Yes! We’re Who’s here, smaller than the eye can see, it’s true Sir I’m a
Who and so is she. We’re tiny little people blowing by in the air, wondering why we’re
on Who, the tiniest planet in the sky! A troubled and a tiny land, our future’s in your
hand.

Mrs Mayor: You are our last hope, we live in fear. I’m scared the end for us is
coming quite near.

Girl: Then the Mayor of Who asked…

Mr Mayor: Please help who sir, you’re the only one who hears. You must save our
dust sir, now that we have reached your ears.

Mrs Mayor: That ghastly Grinch is trying to steal our holiday cheer, with his evil
laugh and creepy sneer. Our daughter is running riot, thinking too much and

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dreaming all day. It’s all very stressful when we don’t know how to keep our beloved
who at bay.

JoJo: I am here you know.

Mrs Mayor: Well then you should listen and try harder in school.

JoJo: It’s not my fault that every day there is a new rule. I try my best but sometimes
my mind just wants to explore.

Cat: Sheesh, poor kid. You’d think inquisitiveness was breaking the law.

Mr Mayor: You will listen to your mother and our new friend will help. But then there
is also the problem of the Grinch…

Grinch: I am the Grinch and I hate Christmas joy. I am green, mean and only seek
to annoy.

Cat: The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!

Grinch: Now, please don't ask me why.

Girl: No one quite knows the reason.

Grinch: These who’s are pathetic with their laughs and their song. I will ruin
Christmas day and prove them all wrong.

Mrs Mayor: We’ve tried to be kind and accept him as we find. No matter how
different a Who may appear, he will always be welcomed with holiday cheer.

Grinch: Bah-humbug to you all!

Girl: But how is Horton going to help the Who’s?

Yurtle Turtle: Horton is still stood there, staring at his speck.

Sour Kangaroo: He’s been looking so much he’s got cramp in his neck.

Mayzie: What a complete do-do brain.

Birds and Wickershams: He’s one hundred percent insane.

Gertrude: I wish Horton would notice me and others would just let him be.

Cat: Then Horton finally broke his silence…

Horton: I’ve been guarding this speck for over a week. Being laughed at for thinking
a dust speck can speak. Well let them all laugh, I’ll try not to mind. For I have found
something, that they’ll never find…
ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE – SONG