| BOY
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| Now that is a very unusual hat.
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| I wonder what’s under a hat such as that.
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| It could be a creature they call the Ga-Zat
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| Who balances things on his head, cause it’s flat.
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| Or a stripe-loving Pipester from Upper Mount Bat.
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| Or a sort of a kind of a hat-wearing…
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| Cat!
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| (THE BOY picks up the hat, and THE CAT IN THE HAT suddenly appears)
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| CAT IN THE HAT
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| I can see that you’ve got quite a mind for your age!
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| Why, one Think and you dragged me right onto the stage!
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| Now, I’m here, there is no telling what may ensue
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| With a Cat such as me, and a Thinker like you!
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| (THE CAT begins to «create"the Seussian world of imagination for THE BOY)
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| Oh, the thinks you can think!
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| Oh, the thinks you can think
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| If you’re willing to try…
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| Think invisible ink!
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| Or a gink with a stink!
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| Or a stair to the sky…
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| If you open your mind,
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| Oh, the thinks you will find
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| Lining up to get loose…
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| Oh, the thinks you can think
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| When you think about…
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| (The company of «Seussian"characters now enters)
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| CAT, ALL (except BOY)
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| Seuss! |
| Seuss!
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| Seuss! |
| Seuss!
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| Seuss! |
| Seuss! |
| Seuss! |
| Seuss!
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| Seuss!
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| CAT &ALL (except BOY)
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| Oh, the thinks you can think!
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| Any thinker who thinks
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| Can come up with a few!
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| BOY
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| Oh, the thinks you can think!
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| CAT &ALL
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| Think a trip on a ship
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| To the Vipper of Vipp
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| WOMEN
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| Or to Solla Sollew…
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| CAT (spoken)
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| Think of beautiful Schlopp …
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| BOY (spoken)
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| With a cherry on top!
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| CAT, BOY, ALL
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| You don’t need an excuse!
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| CAT, BOY (spoken)
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| Oh, the thinks you can think
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| CAT, BOY, ALL
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| When you think about Seuss!
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| Seuss, Seuss, Seuss, —
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| Seuss…
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| HORTON
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| Think of an elephant up in a tree
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| MAYOR, MRS. |
| MAYOR
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| Think of a person too tiny to see!
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| GERTRUDE
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| Think of a bird with a one-feather tail
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| ALL
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| Going on adventure down a dangerous trail!
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| MAYZIE
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| Think a bird who flies off on a spree!
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| SOUR KANGAROO
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| Think of a kangaroo, sour as can be!
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| SCHMITZ
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| Think of a general crazy for war!
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| CAT
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| Think of something horrible and hairy!
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| CAT, PRINCIPLES (except BOY)
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| Something sinister and scary
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| ALL (except BOY)
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| That you never dared to think of before!
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| ALL (except CAT &BOY)
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| Think of nobody here
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| And the feeling of fear
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| And the darkness of night
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| (with menace)
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| Oooh Oooh…
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| ALL, CAT
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| All alone in your room
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| As you’re facing your doom
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| CAT (spoken)
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| Think a glimmer of light!
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| ALL (except BOY)
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| (with relief)
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| Aah Aah!
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| CAT
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| But I hope you’re prepared
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| To be scareder than scared!
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| CAT, ALL (except BOY)
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| 'Cause this ain’t mother goose!
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| CAT (spoken)
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| Think right over the brink!
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| CAT, ALL (except BOY)
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| When you think about Seuss!
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| MEN WOMEN
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| Seu-u-u-u-u
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| Seu… Seu…
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| Seu-u-u-uss Seuss!
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| Seu-u-u-u-u
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| Seuss! |
| Seuss! |
| Seuss! |
| Seuss!
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| CAT
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| An unusual story will soon be unfurled
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| Of an elephant trying to save a small world
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| And a boy from that world who has Thinks just like you!
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| CAT IN THE HAT, ALL
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| Just think!
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| WHOS
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| From the Planet of Who
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| BOY
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| And the smallest of small.
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| CITIZENS OF THE JUNGLE
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| To the jungle of Nool,
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| HORTON
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| And the largest of all…
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| GROUP I GROUP 2
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| You think You think
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| And think and think and think and think
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| and think
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| And think and think and think and think
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| and think
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| And think and think and think and think
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| and think
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| And think and think and think!
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| and think!
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| ALL, BOY
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| Just think!
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| ALL
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| Oh, the thinks you can think
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| Think and wonder and dream-
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| Far and wide as you dare!
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| CAT
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| Oh, the thinks you can think!
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| ALL
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| When your thinks have run dry,
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| In the blink of an eye
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| There’s another think there!
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| If you open your mind,
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| Oh, the thinks you will find
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| Lining up to get loose!
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| Oh, the thinks you can think
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| BARITONES AND BASSES
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| Oh, the thinks you can think
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| ALL
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| Oh, the thinks you can think!
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| TENORS
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| Oh, the thinks you can think!
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| ALL
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| Oh, the thinks you can think
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| When you think about Seuss!
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| When you think about Seuss!
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| When you think about Seuss!
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| (The SOUR KANGAROO riffs through the following)
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| GROUP I GROUP 2 GROUP 3 GROUP 4
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| Seu-u-u-u Seu … Seu. |
| Seuss! |
| Seuss!
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| Seu … Seu. |
| Seuss! |
| Seuss! |
| Seuss!
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| Seu-u-u-u Seuss! |
| Seuss! |
| Seuss!
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| Seu-u-u-uss Seuss!
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| Seuss! |
| Seuss!
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| Seu-u-u-u-u Seu … Seu … Seuss!
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| Seuss! |
| Seuss!
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| BOY
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| Seuss!
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| CAT
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| Our story begins
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| With a very strange sound —
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| The drums of a jungle
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| Beginning to pound.
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| (Jungle drums begin.)
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| CAT
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| Now, imagine a sky.
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| BOY
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| I’ll imagine bright blue!
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| (BOY and CAT create a blue sky and a jungle setting.)
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| CAT
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| It’s the Jungle of Nool!
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| BOY
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| Near the River Walloo!
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| (The CAT and the BOY watch as the Jungle of Nool is revealed.
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| The JUNGLE CITIZENS enter, along with the BIRD GIRLS,
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| a flamboyant «girl group"of the jungle.) |