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

(to JOJO)
Our story begins with a very strange sound:
The drums of a jungle beginning to pound!

(They begin to drum.)

Now imagine the sky.

I'll imagine bright blue!

It's the Jungle of Nool.

Near the River Walloo!

(JOJO and THE CAT create a blue sky and a jungle setting. Jungle drums begin. THE CAT and JOJO watch as the "Jungle of Nool" is revealed. The JUNGLE CITIZENS enter, along with the BIRD GIRLS, a flamboyant "girl group" of the jungle.)

SIDE 3

Hello...hello?

(casually to his clover)
Hello?

Who's there?

It's me, JoJo. The Mayor's son.

I'm Horton. The elephant.

Are you real, or are you a very large Think?

Oh, I'm real all right. I would state that in ink.

In my Thinks, I imagine a lot of strange things, and I go to strange places, as if I had wings! I love a good Think!

Well, for me that goes double.

Sometimes my Thinks are what get me in trouble.

When you think, do you dream?

In bright colors!

Me, too.

(pause)

And I got to strange places. Like Solla Sollew!

When you think, do you think you could fly to the stars?

Little friend, no one else could have Thinks such as ours!