“Seussical”

Hello Grade 1 and 2 Performers!

We are SO looking forward to diving into the magic of musical theatre with you in Seussical!

This page will be your main resource outside of rehearsals for the term.

Please let us know if you have questions or if we can support you in any way. We are here to help!

See you soon!

Liz & Chloe

Rehearsal Schedule

Please see the full term rehearsal and performance schedule here.

All sessions on Wednesdays with the exception of our extra sessions, on Thursday April 30 & Thursday May 7.

The performance is on Thursday May 14 at 5:00 PM.

All participants will be dismissed after rehearsal, outside, at the Junior School doors at 5:35pm (unless otherwise noted on the schedule linked above). Note the long rehearsals to 6pm on Thursday May 7 and Wednesday May 13.

Parent Resources

Please visit the following links to learn more about our creative process, how we structure our program and how we’re working with Branksome Hall to provide the best program possible for your child.

Hello Performers!

We are SO excited to dive into the magic of musical theatre with you in Seussical, this term!

This page will be our go-to resource for the project. You will find here:

  • Vocal and backing tracks for each song are embedded into this page below along with the song lyrics to make for easy rehearsing. We ask that all performers listen to the vocal tracks at least once per week. Singing along while playing, doing chores, riding in the car or hanging out with friends is an excellent and easy way to practice and learn!
  • As we learn choreography, we will add break-down and practice videos for performers to rehearse with – the more we dance, the better we’ll perform – practice really does make progress!
  • It is very important that you take some time each week to practice at home. As a guide, we recommend the following:
    • Grade 1s should be rehearsing for approximately 30 minutes per week between sessions.
    • Grade 2s should be rehearsing for approximately 45 minutes per week between sessions.
  • Next, listen to all the music and get to know the show and the characters – especially in your own songs and lyrics!
    • In rehearsals, we will begin by working on the songs together – lyrics and choreo – and then build on with character work, blocking and more. If you’re looking to take on more responsibility in this production – show us by learning your part ‘inside and out’ and by showing up to each rehearsal with a positive attitude. There’s always room for performers to take on more and we love to find that special moment for each person to shine on stage!

Please let us know if you have questions or if we can support you in any way. We are here and ready to help!

See you in rehearsal!

Liz & Chloe

Rehearsal Materials for the Branskome Hall Jr. School Musical Theatre Company in:

Based on the 1954 book, Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
Music by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Book by David Greig

Jump To:

OVERTURE
OH THE THINGS YOU CAN THINK
HORTON HEARS A WHO
BIGGEST BLAME FOOL
HERE ON WHO
ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE
CHASING THE WHOS
NOTICE ME HORTON
HOW LUCKY YOU ARE
FINDING THE WHOS
THE PEOPLE VERSUS HORTON
FINALE
ENCORE : GREEN EGGS AND HAM

OVERTURE

OH THE THINGS YOU CAN THINK

ALL
Oh, the thinks you can think
Oh, the thinks you can think!
If you’re willing to try
Think invisible ink
Or a gink with a stink!
Or a stair to the sky!
If you open your mind,
Oh, the thinks you will find
Lining up to get loose
Oh, the thinks you can think
When you think about Seuss!
Seuss!
Seuss!
Seuss!
Seuss! Seuss! Seuss! Seuss!
Seu-ss!
Just think!
From the Planet of Who

WHOS
And the smallest of small.

ALL
To the jungle of Nool,

HORTON
And the largest of all

ALL
You think and think
And think and think
And think and think
And think and think
And think and think
And think and think
And think
Just think!
Oh, the thinks you can think
Oh, the thinks you can think
Oh, the thinks you can think
Oh, the thinks you can think
Oh, the thinks you can think
When you think about Seuss…
When you think about Seuss…
When you think about Seuss!
Seu-u-u-u-u Seu… Seu…
Seu… Seu… Seuss! Seuss! Seuss!
Seu-u-u-uss Seuss! Seuss! Seuss!
Seu-u-u-u-u Seu… Seu… Seuss! Seuss!
Seu… Seu… Seuss! Seuss!
Seu-u-u-uss Seuss! Seuss! Seuss!
Seu …Seu …
Seu-u-u-u-u Seuss! Seuss! Seuss!
Seu … Seu … Seuss! Seuss! Seuss!
Seuss!

HORTON HEARS A WHO

ALL
Who who wah dah
Who who who wah dah dah dah
Who who wah dah Who who
On the fourteenth of May
In the jungle of Nool
In the heat of the day,
In the cool of the pool,
He was splashing

THING 1 & THING 2
Splash!

ALL
Enjoying the jungle’s great joys
When Horton the Elephant
Horton the Elephant
Horton the Elephant
Heard a small noise!

WHO
Help! Help!

ALL
So Horton stopped splashing
He looked toward the sound

HORTON
That’s funny.

ALL
Thought Horton

HORTON
There’s no one around.

ALL
Then he heard it again
Just a very faint yelp

HORTON
As if some tiny person were calling for help!

WHO
Help! Help!

HORTON
I’ll help you.

ALL
Said Horton

HORTON
But who are you, and where?

ALL
He looked and he looked.
He could see nothing there
But a small speck of dust
Blowing past
Through the air

HORTON
I say! How confusing!
I’ve never heard tell
Of a small speck of dust that was able to yell,
So you know what I think?
Why I think that there must be someone on top of that small speck of dust.
Some poor little person
Who’s shaking with fear
That he’ll blow in the pool!
He has no way to steer!
He’s alone in the universe!
I’ll just have to save him
Because after all,
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
A person’s a person no matter how small.

ALL
Who who wah dah
Who who who wah dah dah dah
Who who wah dah Who who
So, gently, and using
The greatest of care,
The elephant stretched
His great trunk through the air,
And he lifted the dust speck and carried it over
And placed it down,

HORTON
Safe!

ALL
On a very soft clover.

BIGGEST BLAME FOOL

BIRD GIRLS
Why that speck is as small
As the head of a pin.
A person on that?
Why there never has been!
You’re the biggest blame fool
In the Jungle of Nool
And I don’t care who I tell.
Biggest blame fool
In the Jungle of Nool,

MAYZIE LA BIRD
And I think so as well!

BIRD GIRLS
Maybe I’m nasty, maybe I’m cruel
But you’re the biggest blame fool
In the Jungle of Nool.

ALL
Did you hear? Did you hear?
Did you, did you hear?

THING 1 & THING 2
Through the jungle, the news quickly spread.

ALL
Did you hear? Did you hear?
Did you, did you hear?

THING 1 & THING 2
He talks to a dust speck! He’s out of his head!

ALL
Talkin’ to a speck, talkin’ to a speck
To a speck of dust
Blame fool
In the Jungle of Nool
Talkin’ to a speck, talkin’ to a speck
To a speck of dust
Blame fool
In the Jungle of Nool

HORTON
I just have to save them, because after all
A person’s a person no matter how small.
A person’s a person no matter how…

MAYZIE LA BIRD
Somebody stuck a trunk on a mule!

ALL
Biggest blame fool
In the Jungle of Nool, Nool, Nool!
In the Jungle of Nool, Nool, Nool!
In the Jungle of Nool, Nool, Nool!

HERE ON WHO A

HERE ON WHO B

WHO
Help! Help!

THING 1 & THING 2
Then he heard it again
That small cry in the blue
Horton still couldn’t see them,
But we’ll show them to you!

WHOS
We’re who’s here.
We are Whos here.
Smaller than the eye can see.
It’s true, sir.
We’re who’s Who, sir.
I’m a Who and so is she.
We’re tiny little people
Blowing by in the air,
Wondering how and why
We’re on Who,
The ti-iniest
Planet in the sky

ALL
A-ladela-deladela who who
A-ladela-deladela who
A-ladela-deladela who who
A-ladela-dela…

WHOS
We’re Who’s here,
Win or lose here,
Struggling to stay alive.
Each gust pro-
Pels our dust. Oh,
How on earth
Do Whos survive?

ALL
At any given moment
We could crash or be drowned,
Hitting the ground, oh my!
Here on Who,
The ti-iniest
Planet in the sky
Picture the tiniest houses and grocery stores.
Who…
Tiny umbrellas that drip on the tiniest floors.
Who…
The tiniest tunnels and tiniest streets.
Miniature buses with miniature seats.
Miniature buildings with miniature windows and doors!

HORTON
No smaller town than yours

WHOS
But here on Who
We live in fear.
We’re drifting through space
And cannot steer
A troubled and a tiny land …
Our future’s in your hand …
It’s up to
You, sir
Please help Who, sir.
You’re the only one who hears.

WHOS
You must, sir!
Save our dust, sir!
Now that we have reached
Your ears!

ALL
We’re tiny little people
Saying thanks in advance
Hoping perchance,
You’ll try!
Here on Who,
The ti-iniest
Planet in the sky…

HORTON
I won’t let you down.
No, I won’t let you fall.
A person’s a person
No matter how small.
A person’s a person
No matter how small.

ALL
Who

ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE

HORTON
I’ve been guarding this clover
For over a week,
Getting 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!

ALL
There are secrets on a leaf,
In the water, in the air,
Hidden planets, tiny worlds,
All invisible!
Not a person seems to know.
Not a person seems to care.

HORTON
There is no one who believes a thing I say…

ALL
Well, I’m fairly certain
At one time or other,
Great thinkers all feel this way!
I’m alone in the universe.
So alone in the universe.

HORTON
I’ve found magic but they don’t see it
They all call me peculiar.
Okay, call me peculiar.
If I stand on my own, so be it.

ALL
One small voice in the universe
One true friend in the universe
Who believes in me…

CHASING THE WHOS

HORTON
Hey! Give that back! Stop!!

ALL
Up out of the jungle
Up into the sky.
Up over the mountains
Ten thousand feet high.
Then down from the mountains
And into the news
Went Horton the elephant
Chasing the Whos!
Chasing the Whos!
Chasing the Whos!

WICKERSHAM MONKEYS
Still chasing your dust?
Why it’s safe as can be.
We’re monkeys to trust
Or don’t you agree?
Well, just to be sure
We are handing it off
To a black-bottomed eagle named

VLAD
Vlad Vladikoff!!

HORTON
Please – wait!

ALL
All that late afternoon
And far into the night
That black-bottomed bird
Flapped his wings in fast flight,
And he paid no attention
To Horton’s loud call

HORTON
A person’s a person
No matter how small!

WHOS
Ahh! Woah!
We’re Whos here,
We’re all Whos here
Please don’t let us fall!
Ahh!
We’re Whos here,
We could bruise here
Help we’re weak and small!
Woah!

ALL
On Horton traveled
And on that bird flew.
And, oh, there was trouble,
Trouble on Who!
That black-bottomed eagle
Was cruel as could be…

THING 1 & THING 2
‘Cause at six fifty-six, Vlad Vladikoff dropped it
The clover went tumbling and nobody stopped it!
Head over heels, one hundred miles down,
Fell the poor little Whos and their whole tiny town!

WHOS
Ahhh!

NOTICE ME HORTON

HORTON (spoken)
That bird let that clover drop somewhere inside
Of a great patch of clovers, one hundred miles wide!
I’ll find it, I’ll find it! I’ll find it or bust!
I’ll find my friends on their small speck of dust.
Yes, clover by clover by clover with care
I’ll listen and I’ll call, are you there?
Are you there? Are you there?
One hundred and two.
One hundred and three.

WHOS
Over and over,
Clover by clover…
I was just a no one only yesterday.
You showed up and showed me something more.
Now I’ve become a someone
Who has someone to believe in
And to be there for…

HOW LUCKY YOU ARE

ALL
When the news is all bad,
When you’re sour and blue,
When you start to get mad
You should do what I do

WHOS
Aaah!

ALL
Tell yourself
How lucky you are…
Why decry a cloudy sky
An empty purse
A crazy universe?
My philosophy is simply
Things could be worse!

MAYZIE LA BIRD
AH … AH.. AH-CHOO!

WHOS
EWWW!

ALL
So be happy you’re here.
Think of life as a thrill
And if worse comes to worse
As we all know it will
Thank your lucky star
You’ve gotten this far…
And tell yourself…
How lucky you are!
How lucky, how lucky, how lucky
How lucky, how lucky, how lucky
You are!

FINDING THE WHOS (spoken)

HORTON
Two million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine…
I’ll find them… I will.
Whos?
Whos?
Whos?

WHOS
WHO!

HORTON
Hello, Whos, hello! Is anyone there?

WHOS
Hello!

HORTON
Whos, now that I’ve got you, I won’t let you go!
I’ll shelter and guard you, because after all,
A person’s a person, no matter how small!

ALL
A person’s a person
No matter how…

THING 1 & THING 2
How happy and sweet…but this tale is not over!

WHO
Oh yes it is, too! Get me down from this clover!

THING 1 & THING 2
I’m sorry, there’s no happy ending in sight!
So all I can say is – Hey, Whos, hold tight!

HORTON
Wait! Stop! Where are you taking me?

THING 1 & THING 2
You’re gonna be…
Put… On trial!

MAYZIE LA BIRD
Because you’re foolish you see!

THE PEOPLE VERSUS HORTON

ALL
This is the case of the people versus
Horton the Elephant
Horton the Elephant!

MAYZIE LA BIRD
The defendant is charged with talking to a speck, disturbing the peace, and loitering.
Your honor, this clover is Exhibit A.

ALL
They’re Whos here.
There are Whos here.
Smaller than the eye can see!

WICKERSHAM MONKEYS
Biggest blame fool in the jungle of Nool!

HORTON
It’s true, sir!
Here’s who’s Who, sir!
He’s a Who, and so is she

WICKERSHAM MONKEYS
Biggest blame fool in the jungle of Nool!

ALL
Talkin’ to a speck
Talkin’ to a speck
To a speck of dust!

HALF
Objection!

HALF
Overruled!

HORTON
(Elephant trumpet sound.)
You can do what you want with me, Your Honor,
And I won’t question why.
But Please save Who,
The ti-niest planet in the sky.

YERTLE THE TURTLE
Based on the evidence, I have no choice
But to order the defendant,
Horton the Elephant,
Remanded to the
Nool Institute for the hopelessly peculiar.
And as for the dust speck…

ALL
Ooh! That dust speck!
And as for the dust speck
Ooh! That speck!
And as for your dust speck,
That we will
Boil boil boil boil boil…
In a hot steaming kettle of beezlenut oil!

WHOS
Attention all Whos!
Attention all Whos!
We’ve got to be heard!
There’s no time to lose!
So send up a shout
Make it loud! Make it clear!
We are here! We are here!
We are here! We are heeeerrreee!!

FINALE

HORTON
Do you hear what I hear?
You see what I mean?
Oh – they made themselves heard!
Though they still can’t be seen.
They’ve proved they are persons
No matter how small

THING 1 & THING 2
The adventure was over
The sky became … pink
And then guess what happened?
Well?
What do you think?

ALL
Oh, the thinks you can think
Think and wonder and dream
Far and wide as you dare…
When your thinks have run dry
In the blink of an eye
There’s another world there.
If you open your mind
Oh, the thinks you will find
Lining up to get loose
Oh, the thinks you can think
Oh, the thinks you can think
Oh, the thinks you can think
Oh, the thinks you can think
Oh, the thinks you can think
When you think about Seuss…
When you think about Seuss…
When you think about Seuss!
Seu-u-u-u-u Seu… Seu…
Seu… Seu… Seuss! Seuss! Seuss!
Seu-u-u-uss Seuss! Seuss! Seuss!
Seu-u-u-u-u Seu… Seu… Seuss! Seuss!
Seuss!

ENCORE : GREEN EGGS AND HAM

I do not like green eggs and ham
I do not like them, Sam-I-am
I do not like them here or there
I do not like them anywhere.
Not in a house, not with a mouse
Not here or there, not anywhere
I do not like green eggs and ham
I do not like them, Sam-I-am
Could you? Would you? With a goat?
Could you? Would you? On a boat?
Could you? Would you? In the rain?
Could you? Would you? On a train?
Not with a goat. Not on a boat.
Not in the rain. Not on a train.
Not in a house. Not with a mouse.
Oh, no!
Not in a box. Not with a fox.
Not in a tree. You let me be!
I do not like green eggs and ham!
I do not like them, Sam-I-am!
Woo!
Woo!
Woo!
I do not like green eggs and ham!