Script

SIDE 1

(A red-and-white-striped hat sits on a very empty stage. A BOY (JOJO) enters and notices it.)

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 Pipester from Upper Mount Bat.
Or a sort of a kind of a hat-wearing&

(The BOY picks up the hat, and THE CAT IN THE HAT (THE CAT) suddenly appears.)

Cat!

SIDE 2

(THE CAT appears wearing a stethoscope.)

(as DOCTOR DAKE)
Tut tut, the Doctor said.
Such talk! It's too absurd!
Your little tail is just right
for your kind of bird!

(pause)

All right already! Bring in the Pill-berry bush!

SIDE 3

(THE CAT appears as an auctioneer. NOTE: Another "free" improvisational area for THE CAT please start with what's here, and improvise with audience a little.)

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Seusseby's. Our first item up to bid this evening is lot 39, a pendulous pachyderm on egg, nest and tree. The bidding will begin at ten thousand dollars. Do I hear ten, ten thousand?

(THE CAT improvs with the audience.)

Going once, going twice&

(THE CAT bangs his gavel.)

Sold& to the man with the sideburns and the greasy black moustache - oh, excuse me, Madam!

Sold instead, to the man from the circus!