Seussical (The New 2021 Musical)

The new Seussical is for January 1st, 2022.

WARNING!
This is the new Seussical version!

Major Characters

 * The Peacock - the male narrator and host of the story
 * The Ostrich - the female narrator and hostess of the story
 * The Fox - a smart male red fox as the host
 * Jojo – an imaginative and misunderstood young girl
 * Ono - a clever great egret
 * Thomas the Tiger – a compassionate and determined Bengal Tiger
 * Gertrude McFuzz – a blue shy bird who falls in love with Horton and endeavors to help him
 * General Genghis Khan Schmitz – an emperor penguin during the Butter Battle
 * Mayzie La Dolphin – Thomas's vivacious yet lazy, loud and self-centered dolphin neighbor (with the design of Short-Beaked Common Dolphin from Kemono Friends Season 3)
 * Sour Kangaroo – the ill-mannered governor of the Jungle of Nool

Minor Characters

 * Lionesses and Birds - Mayzie's friends, who act as a Greek chorus
 * Mr. Mayor - the newly elected mayor of Wildville and Jojo's father
 * Mrs. Mayor - the Mayor's wife and Jojo's mother
 * The Lorax - the character that resides in the Truffula Trees and Wildville
 * The Grumple - a notable resident of Wildville who is responsible for organizing the Christmas pageant
 * Victoria - a Victoria Crowned Pigeon who is the Sour Kangaroo's sidekick
 * Vlad Vladikoff - a sinister "lion-like, hyena-like, black-and-white, or vulture-like" eagle
 * Yertle the Turtle - the judge who presides over the Jungle of Nool's court
 * The Hunters - Horton's captors who sell him to the circus
 * Wickersham brothers (1,2,3)

Ensemble

 * Wild Animals - citizens of Wildville
 * Cadets - members of Schmitz's platoon
 * Jungle Creatures - chorus and dancers in jungle scenes
 * Wolves, Hyenas, Marabou Storks, and Vultures (Hunches) - dancers in "Havin' a Hunch"
 * Circus Animals - the animals of the Circus McGurkus
 * Fish and Aquatic Animals - residents of McElligot's Pool during "It's Possible"
 * Cat Helpers - help the Cat work Jojo's imagination in "Day For the Peacock"

Act 1
The show opens on a bare stage, save for an odd feathered hat in the center. Out of the hat came the ostrich and peacock before Korrina and tell her they have been brought to life by Korrina's "Thinks". The Ostrich and Peacock create the world and characters around Korrina and themselves ("Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!"). The Ostrich and Peacock then reveal to Korrina that they are about to tell a story about someone as imaginative as Korrina is.

To begin the story, the Ostrich and Peacock encourage Korrina to think up the Jungle of Nool, where Thomas the Tiger is bathing. Horton hears a strange noise coming from a nearby speck of dust, and reasons that someone must be on it, calling out for help. He carefully places the speck on a soft clover and decides to guard it ("Thomas Hears a Who"). But he is mocked mercilessly by the Sour Kangaroo and the other animals of the jungle, who do not believe him ("Biggest Blame Fool"). The only exceptions are Thomas's new neighbors, Gertrude McFuzz, who admires his compassion, and Mayzie La Dolphin, who is more concerned about herself.

Thomas soon discovers that the speck is actually a mightiest planet populated by wild animals and polar animals. The citizens of Wildville introduce themselves and their yearly Christmas pageant directed by their friend the Grumple. They also reveal that in addition to being unable to control where the speck flies, they are on the brink of war and their entire population of Truffula Trees has been cut down ("Here on Who"). The Wild Beasts thank Thomas and ask for his protection, and he agrees to guard their planet.

At this point, the Ostrich and Peacock push Korrina into the story; she becomes Jojo, the daughter of the Mayor of Wildville and his wife. Jojo becomes grounded leading the Mayor and his wife to contemplate what to do with their friend ("How to Raise a Child"). Jojo has been getting into trouble at school for having Thinks, so her parents order her to "take a bath and go to bed, and think some normal Thinks, instead." Jojo blames the Ostrich for getting her into trouble and tries to send her away. The Ostrich refuses and persuades Jojo to imagine the tub is McElligot's Pool ("It's Possible").

The Peacock is next and explains the one of the audience that he is sad (A Day for the Peacock). When the Peacock and Ostrich hand them a brochure, they decide to send Jojo to a military school run by General Genghis Khan Schmitz, who is preparing to go to war with those who eat their bread with the butter side down ("The Military"). While there, Jojo meets Thomas, and finds a mutual friend in him ("Alone in the Universe").

Gertrude, meanwhile, has fallen in love with Thomas, but is afraid he does not notice her because of her own tail, which consists of only "one droopy blue feather" ("The One Feather Tail of Miss Gertrude McFuzz"). At the advice of Mayzie, whose dolphin-like tail is dazzling, she mentions consuming pills which make her tail grow new feathers. Gertrude is so excited that she overdoses, causing her tail to grow long and unwieldy ("Amayzing Mayzie"/"Amazing Gertrude").

Thomas is ambushed by the Wickersham brothers, a gang of delinquent monkeys, who steal the clover and make off with it ("Monkey Around"). Horton gives chase until the Wickershams hand the clover to an eagle named Vlad Vladikoff, who drops it into a large patch of identical clovers ("Chasing the Whos").

Here, the Peacock cuts briefly into the action to remind the audience how lucky they are to not be Thomas ("How Lucky You Are"). Undeterred, Thomas begins to look for the clover, hoping the wild beasts are still alive, when Gertrude catches up with him and tries to get him to notice her new tail. Thomas is too busy, so she leaves to take more pills to her horses ("Notice Me, Horton").

Thomas is about to search his three millionth clover when he loses hope. Mayzie, sitting in a nearby tree, offers to help him forget about the wild beasts by hatching an egg that she is too lazy to care for ("How Lucky You Are (Reprise)"). Thomas reluctantly agrees, and Mayzie leaves for a vacation. Thomas sits through months of harsh weather as he tries to decide between the egg and the wild beasts ("Thomas Sits on the Egg") when he is captured by hunters, who take him away along with the entire tree. Gertrude is ready to stop the hunters, but could fly due to her long and magnificent tail.

The Peacock closes the act with a reprise of "How Lucky You Are", and conducts the band during the intermission.

Act II
Thomas, still hatching the egg, is auctioned off to the traveling Circus McGurkus ("Egg, Nest, and Tree"/"How Lucky You Are (Reprise)").

At one show in Palm Beach, he meets up with Mayzie, who insists that he keep the egg for himself before leaving ("Amayzing Horton").

Thomas mourns the loss of the wild beasts, and Jojo, but vows just as surely to protect the egg, as it, too, is alone without its mother ("Alone in the Universe (Reprise)"), and sings it a lullaby with Jojo about a magical place called Solla Sollew. At the same time, the Mayor and his wife begin to miss Thomas and Jojo, and wish for Solla Sollew, as well ("Solla Sollew").

Jojo is with General Schmitz and his platoon as the Butter Battle commences. Jojo deserts Schmitz, but sprints into a minefield and vanishes in an explosion. Schmitz assumes the worst and heads to Wildville to tell Jojo's parents and the Lorax that their friend has died.

The Fox appears to perform a re-enactment of the dramatic scene. But in reality, Jojo has survived, but is lost with no idea of where to turn. The Fox appears to her with a band of Hunches, encouraging her to use her Thinks to find her way home ("Havin' a Hunch"). Jojo does so and happily reunites with her who forgive him for her Thinks.

Gertrude sneaks into the circus to free Thomas, explaining she plucked out all but one of her tail feathers to fly there, and confesses her love for him. She also reveals she has found his clover, until the Ostrich, Fox, and Peacock saw that Jojo purchased 99,000 to the audience when delighting and relieving Thomas to find the wild beasts alive and well ("All For You" and "99,000"). However, the Sour Kangaroo and the Wickersham brothers arrive to take Thomas back to the jungle.

In the jungle, Thomas is put on trial for the crimes of "talking to a speck, disturbing the peace, selling 99,000 dollars and loitering... on an egg" ("The People Versus Tommy the Tiger"). Aided by Gertrude, Horton makes his best case, but Judge Yertle the Turtle finds him guilty. He orders Thomas remanded to the "Nool Asylum for the Criminally Insane" and the clover destroyed in a kettle of hot "Beezle-Nut" oil. Desperate, Thomas encourages the wild beasts to make as much noise as possible to prove their existence, but the animals do not hear them. Jojo finally uses her Thinks to conjure a new word, "Yopp", which she shouts loudly enough to reach the animals' ears. Convinced at last, the animals repent and promise to help protect the wild animals, and Thomas is acquitted. Jojo is accepted by her parents and the rest of Wildville as "Thinker Non-Stop" for saving their planet.

Thomas's egg hatches into a tiny flying "Tiger-Bird" named Morton, amazing everyone, but dismaying Thomas, who panics at the thought of flying progeny. Gertrude reassures him that they can raise the child together, and they agree to do so.

With the story finished, the Fox, Peacock, and Ostrich return to close the show with ("Finale - Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!"), then whisper to the member in the audience to say "Seuss!" very loudly. The member says, "Seuss!" making all the characters yell "SEUSS!?!?" very loudly and dance freeze.