Seussical The Musical:
Kingdom Hearts Style
Part 2:
"Horton Hears A Who"
Disclaimer: I do not own the musical "Seussical", its songs, its characters and plot, or any of the Square Enix characters that appear in this fic. Just so you know.
(After the applause dies down, everyone exits except Axel/the Cat and Roxas. The STAGEHANDS, dressed all in black and thus "invisible" to the audience as in Japanese Kabuki theatre, enter. During the following lines, they remove the convention booths, and replace them with a jungle set that looks like a cross between the Deep Jungle in KH1 and the Pride Lands in KH2. This is the "Jungle of Nool". At Center Stage we see that the stagehands have placed an inflatable pool with "Lion King" characters on its sides.)
Axel/Cat(Addressing Roxas): Our story begins
With a very strange sound -
The drums of a jungle
Beginning to pound.
(An African-tribal beat begins to play, backed up by the pulsating sound of bongo drums from offstage.)
Now, imagine a sky.
Roxas: I'll imagine⦠(He hesitates for a moment, and then an idea comes to him.) bright blue!
(The background is suddenly illuminated by bright blue lights.)
Axel/Cat: It's the Jungle of Nool
Near the River Walloo!
(Leon, Rinoa, Riku, Adelbert, and the Gullwings enter as JUNGLE ANIMALS. Leon is a LION, Rinoa a ZEBRA, Riku a HYENA, and Adelbert a RHINO. The Gullwings are now wearing headbands with a single feather attached to the front of each. They are now the BIRD GIRLS, a three-member jungle girl group.)
Jungle Animals (Chanting): Who who wah dah
Who who who wah dah dah dah
Who who wah dah
Who who who wah dah
Who who wah dah
Who who who wah dah dah dah
Who who wah dah
Who who who wah dah
Who who wah dah
Who who who wah dah dah dah
Who who wah dah
Who who
Axel/Cat: Now think of an elephant lumbering through.
(HORTON THE ELEPHANT enters-merely SORA wearing a gray baseball cap with elephant ears and a trunk attached to it. Like Roxas was in the opening, Sora is at this moment feeling rather bored.)
Jungle Animals(Chanting): Who who wah dah
Who who who wah dah dah dah
Roxas(After thinking over who this elephant might be): Horton?!
Axel/Cat: Yes, Horton!
It's "Horton Hears a Who"!
Sora/Horton(Singing unenthusiastically): On the fifteenth of May
In the jungle of Nool
In the heat of the day,
In the cool of the pool
(He climbs into the inflatable pool.)
He was splashing-
Gullwings/Bird Girls: Splash!
Sora/Horton: Enjoying the jungle's great joys
When Horton the elephant
Axel/Cat: Horton the Elephant
Jungle Animals: Horton the elephant
Sora/Horton: Heard a small noise.
(One of the stagehands begins to make "Who Sounds" from offstage in a muffled tone of voice.)
Stagehand/Who Voice: Help! Help!
(Sora/Horton looks up and begins to glance around himself, trying to find what is making the noise.)
Yuna/Bird Girl #1: So Horton stopped splashing
He looked toward the sound
Sora/Horton: That's funny
Gullwings/Bird Girls: Thought Horton
Sora/Horton: There's no one around.
Paine/Bird Girl #3: Then he heard it again
Rikku/Bird Girl #2: Just a very faint yelp
Sora/Horton: As if some tiny person were calling for help
Stagehand/Who Voice: Help! Help!
Sora/Horton: I'll help you
Gullwings/Bird Girls: Said Horton
Sora/Horton: But who are you, and where?
Gullwings/Bird Girls: He looked and he looked.
He could see nothing there
Sora/Horton: But a small speck of dust
Blowing past...
(A small laser light moves slowly across the back wall of the stage. This is meant to represent the speck of the dust. Axel/the Cat, Roxas, Sora/Horton, and the Gullwings/Bird Girls all turn to look at the light, while the rest of the Jungle Animals pay no attention to it.)
Sora & Gullwings: Through the air.
(Sora/Horton's attention has been captured by this "dust speck", and he is by now thoroughly interested by it. He climbs out of the inflatable pool and addresses the audience.)
Sora/Horton: I say! How confusing!
I've never heard tell
Of a small speck of dust that is 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...
Jungle Animals(Chanting): Who who wah dah
who who who wah dah dah dah
who who wah dah
who who
(Axel/the Cat takes a large Seussian-style clover from out of one of the sleeves of his coat and hands it to Sora/Horton.)
Gullwings/Bird Girls: So, gently, and using
The greatest of care,
The elephant stretched
His great trunk through the air
(Sora/Horton reaches into the air with one of his arms and grabs the "dust speck" between two of his fingers.)
And he lifted the dust speck
And carried it over
And placed it down
Sora/Horton(Placing the "speck" onto his clover): Safe!
Gullwings/Bird Girls: On a very soft clover.
Okay, here's the second part. I'll try to have the third part (the only other part I have finished as of yet) uploaded later today, and have the fourth part finished and uploaded later this week.
I also intend to maybe upload the complete version of this fic at a later date, and I'll try to update one of my other fics soon as well.
Finally, I'd like to tell TLSoulDude that I'll try my hardest to upload the first part of the fic I'm writing for him before the New Year, but given the rate at which I usually work, and to be realistic here because of that rate, I'm making no other promises. (Sorry, man. I'm honestly going to try to do better.)
Read and review, and catch you again soon!
