JUNIPER MJ INTRODUCES SEUSSICAL JR!!!
MAIN CHARACTERS
1. HORTON
2.JOJO
4. CAT IN THE HAT
3. GERTRUDE MCFUZZ
4.MAYZIE LA BIRD
5. SOUR KANGAROO
SECONDARY CHARACTERS
1. MR&MRS MAYOR
2. BIRD GIRLS
3. WICKERSHAM BROTHERS
4. YERTLE THE TURTULE
5. GRINCH
6. VLAD VLADICOFF
CHORUS
1. THE WHOS
2. JUNGLE CITIZENS
Jojo:
JoJo McDodd is the son of Ned McDodd and he is oldest child, as well as the only boy, among the Mayor's 97 children, and will more than likely be the future mayor of Whoville, because in Whoville tradition "the oldest is next in the mayoral line". JoJo is also the smallest Who of all..
Personality:
JoJo is so worried that he'll say something to disappoint his father that he finds it best not to speak- ever. But he's anything but silent. He hears music in the tapping of an old keyboard, feels the beat in the rhythmic bounce of a basketball and finds harmony in wind whistling over a comb.
It is later revealed that JoJo takes nightly excursions to the Abandoned Star-Study Tower, and the one time we see him about to leave, his arms are filled with various odds and ends (including an umbrella that looks remarkably like that of the Cat in the Hat's), are to work on what is rather literally a giant instrument (called "the Symphonophone" on the soundtrack): he had filled the observatory with these castaway items and set up an elaborate system to produce music. JoJo uses his Symphonophone to add to the ruckus needed to alert the citizens of Nool to their existence, in addition to his signature cry: "YOPP!"
Appearance:
Appearance
In the film, JoJo's silent personality has created a unique appearance, JoJo has long, black hair, pale skin, brown/auburn eyes, and is adjorned in black-and-grey striped fur, giving him an emo-esque appearance. Despite being "the smallest" his sister Heady is smaller than him
In the special, JoJo is blond, has blue eyes, and wears an all-blue outfit with a red bow at his neck.
Seussical the musical :
Jojo also appears in Seussical the Musical as the protagonist. Jojo keeps getting in trouble for having different thoughts and big ideas. The Cat in the Hat also keeps popping up and getting him into even more trouble. He then meets Horton, who also has problems because of his big ideas (And of course because he thinks there are people on a speck of dust).
Gertrude Mcfuzz
Gertrude McFuzz is a character from the Dr. Seuss Books. She is from Gertrude McFuzz, and Seussical the Musical. She was a girl-bird that she had one feather and she ate pill-berries that her uncle Doctor Dake told her of. In the book, she eats a vine of unnamed berries that have the same effects.
Miss Gertrude McFuzz is a fictitious character in: Dr. Seuss's homonymous short story Miss Gertrude McFuzz, in the book Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories and the Broadway musical Seussical, which elaborates upon it. She is one of the main female roles along with Mayzie and Mrs. Mayor. In 'Seussical the Musical', Gertrude McFuzz is an awkward, determined little bird with a one-feather tail, of which she is very ashamed.
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (1958)
Gertrude is a girl-bird that is desperately trying to grow her tail, due to it having one feather, being in the shadow of Lolla Lee Lou, who has many feathers. She goes to her uncle, Doctor Dake. He tells her of special berries that will make her tail grow, causing her to eat the entire vine. She cannot move because of her huge tail, causing Dake and other birds carry her to pluck the feathers. In the end, she realizes she is not ugly as she thought before, but smarter.
Seussical (2000)
In order to improve her appearance, and in the process win the heart of Horton the Elephant, Gertrude follows the advice of Mayzie LaBird and takes special pill-berries that allow her to grow more feathers on her tail. Horton, in his effort to find his lost clover, overlooks Gertrude's affections. Her pill-berry obsession grows out of control when she sprouts too many feathers and is unable to fly to Horton's rescue upon his capture by hunters. Near the end of the musical a once again single-feathered Gertrude returns to Horton, where he is imprisoned at the Circus McGurkus, to convey to him her true feelings and that she plucked out her beautiful tail in an effort to save him and return to him his clover that she had found after seven long weeks of searching.
Horton finally sees Gertrude, they fall in love, and Gertrude promises to help care for the newly hatched elephant bird: "I have wings, yes I can fly, you teach him earth and I will teach him sky". Gertrude's solos include the songs "Biggest Blame Fool Playoff/Gertrude McFuzz", "Amayzing Gertrude Part 2", "The One Feather Tail of Miss Gertrude McFuzz", "Notice Me Horton", and "All for You".
Horton the elephant :
Horton the Elephant is the kind-hearted elephant character who first appeared in the 1940 book, Horton Hatches the Egg.
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Appearance
Horton is a Grey (presumably Indian) elephant with blue eyes.
Personality
In each of Horton's book appearances he endures a good amount of ridicule, for believing in something that no one else does. In 1942 Horton the Elephant appeared in Horton Hatches the Egg.
Horton never loses faith though, even after being roped and caged he continually insisted that the Whos existed, which they did. In The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, he was performed by John Kennedy.
Horton is also one of the main characters of Seussical, combining his roles in Horton Hatches the Egg and Horton Hears a Who he sang Alone in the Universe with JoJo the small boy in Whoville. The basic storyline is centered around him. Horton the Elephant also appeared in Seussical the Musical and even one of the upcoming Starfy games, The Legendary Starfy 4. In this game, he appears with Morton the Elephant Bird
Cat in the hat:
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The Cat in the Hat is a farm cat of Dr. Seuss's short story The Cat in the Hat. With his book being an overwhelmingly successful best-seller, the Cat in the Hat has become a logo for Random House's beginner books, the production logo for all of Seuss's animated shorts, and Dr. Seuss's most popular character world wide.
The Cat has made several appearances in works written by Seuss aside from the Cat in the Hat, including the book's sequel The Cat in the Hat comes back.
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Origin
The famous cover featuring The Cat in the Hat
Theodor Geisel created The Cat in the Hat in response to the May 24, 1954, Life magazine article by John Hersey, titled "Why Do Students Bog Down on First R? A Local Committee Sheds Light on a National Problem: Reading.” In the article, Hersey was critical of school primers:
In the classroom boys and girls are confronted with six books that have insipid illustrations depicting the slicked-up lives of other children. Primers feature abnormally courteous, unnaturally clean boys and girls. In bookstores, anyone can buy brighter, livelier books featuring strange and wonderful animals and children who behave naturally, i.e., sometimes misbehave. Given incentive from school boards, publishers could do as well with primers.
Hersey’s arguments were enumerated over ten pages of Life magazine. After detailing many issues contributing to the dilemma connected with student reading levels, Hersey asked toward the end of the article:
Why should school primers not have pictures that widen rather than narrow the associative richness the children give to the words they illustrate? Drawings like those of the wonderfully imaginative geniuses among children’s illustrators, Tenniel, Howard Pyle, "Seuss", and Walt Disney?
Ted Geisel's friend William Ellsworth Spaulding, who was then the director of Houghton Mifflin's education division, invited Geisel to dinner in Boston and "proposed” that Ted write and illustrate such a book for six- and seven-year olds who had already mastered the basic mechanics of reading. “Write me a story that first-graders can't put down!" he challenged. Spaulding supplied Geisel with a list of 348 words that every six year old should know, and insisted that the book's vocabulary be limited to 225 words. Nine months later Dr. Seuss finished The Cat in the Hat, which used 223 words that appeared on the list plus 13 words that did not. Because Geisel was under contract with Random House, Houghton Mifflin retained the school rights to The Cat in the Hat and Random House retained the rights to trade sales.
In an interview he gave in Arizona magazine in June 1981, Dr. Seuss claimed the book took nine months to complete due to the difficulty in writing a book from the 223 selected words. He added that the title for the book came from his desire to have the title rhyme and the first two suitable rhyming words that he could find from the list were "cat" and "hat". Dr. Seuss also regretted the association of his book and the "look say" reading method adopted during the Dewey revolt in the 1920s. He expressed the opinion that "Killing phonics was one of the greatest causes of illiteracy in the country."
Mascot
The Cat in the Hat is Seuss’ most famous and most popular character, followed by the Grinch and Horton the elephant. Because his book has become such a landmark in children’s literature he has been made into the mascot of Random House. The Cat in the Hat emblem has been featured on most every book published by the company since the character’s debut. “The Cat in the Hat Productions” was also the name of the production company that animated the Dr. Seuss specials from 1966 to 1989, the Cat in the Hat of course being the mascot as well.
A statue of the cat stands next to Theodor Giesel in his memorial.
Mazye la bird:
Mayzie is a character from the Dr. Seuss books. She first appeared in Horton Hatches the Egg then later she was given a prominent role in Seussical and she appeared in Horton Hatches the Egg (1942 cartoon). She also appeared in The Legendary Starfy 4.
Personality:
Mazye is a very show offish, she even has a song in seussical jr that is called, “Amazing Mazye”. She sings and acts like she is very cool and the other people are not…, this song is ment to be for two purposes
1.to show Gertude what a loser she is
2. to convey that she is the coolest one everywhere she goes
Sour kangaroo:
Sour Kangaroo, aka Jane Kangaroo is a busybody and creator of the jungle's laws who is skeptical about the existence of the Whos and Whoville on a dust speck.
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Character
She serves as the main antagonist of the film. As Horton's claims begin to drive her towards darkness, she believes that once other people start listening to Horton, they'll start to come to her with questions she won't be able to answer. In order to avoid this, she begins making deals with the Wickershams and the vulture hitman Vlad Vladikoff. As the film progresses, her aims start to shift towards crushing Horton's spirit and building up her own reputation. The Kangaroo is too dismissive of the products of imagination and creativity, even to the point where she keeps her son Rudy jammed inside her pouch. She believes that outside the "comfort" her ideas provide him, non-conformity and anarchy are minutes away from turning their ordered life into chaos. Yet, in the end, Horton's convincing changes her mindset.
Description
In the book she's a yellow kangaroo. In the film she is purple with turf of fur around her neck and long hair on her that stands up straight.
Ned Mcdodd (mayor of Whovile and JoJo’s dad):
Ned McDodd is the Mayor of Whoville and is the father of 96 daughters and one son. It wasn't until the movie's release that his full name was revealed, and even then he is usually addressed as his title, only being called McDodd once by the narrator's introduction of him ("was devoted, fair, and a little bit odd"), and a few times as Ned by his wife, Sally.
He is voiced by comedian Steve Carell.
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Personality
Ned McDodd has the Town Council waiting for him to screw up, 97 mouths to feed, and a son who hasn't spoken in years. Throw in a disembodied voice telling him his world is on the verge of apocalypse and the result is one stressed-out guy. Through it all, the Mayor is still the most dedicated father, husband, friend and civil servant in Who-ville. The pressure though is enough to make the Mayor take a swing at the Council Chairman. Well, not in real life, because that would be crazy. But the Chairman's portrait? It better watch out.
Appearance
The Mayor wears a blue coat complete with tie and mayoral crest, as well as having brown hair and fur and blue eyes.
JoJo McDodd is the son of Ned McDodd and he is oldest child, as well as the only boy, among the Mayor's 97 children, and will more than likely be the future mayor of Whoville, because in Whoville tradition "the oldest is next in the mayoral line". JoJo is also the smallest Who of all..
Personality:
JoJo is so worried that he'll say something to disappoint his father that he finds it best not to speak- ever. But he's anything but silent. He hears music in the tapping of an old keyboard, feels the beat in the rhythmic bounce of a basketball and finds harmony in wind whistling over a comb.
It is later revealed that JoJo takes nightly excursions to the Abandoned Star-Study Tower, and the one time we see him about to leave, his arms are filled with various odds and ends (including an umbrella that looks remarkably like that of the Cat in the Hat's), are to work on what is rather literally a giant instrument (called "the Symphonophone" on the soundtrack): he had filled the observatory with these castaway items and set up an elaborate system to produce music. JoJo uses his Symphonophone to add to the ruckus needed to alert the citizens of Nool to their existence, in addition to his signature cry: "YOPP!"
Appearance:
Appearance
In the film, JoJo's silent personality has created a unique appearance, JoJo has long, black hair, pale skin, brown/auburn eyes, and is adjorned in black-and-grey striped fur, giving him an emo-esque appearance. Despite being "the smallest" his sister Heady is smaller than him
In the special, JoJo is blond, has blue eyes, and wears an all-blue outfit with a red bow at his neck.
Seussical the musical :
Jojo also appears in Seussical the Musical as the protagonist. Jojo keeps getting in trouble for having different thoughts and big ideas. The Cat in the Hat also keeps popping up and getting him into even more trouble. He then meets Horton, who also has problems because of his big ideas (And of course because he thinks there are people on a speck of dust).
Gertrude Mcfuzz
Gertrude McFuzz is a character from the Dr. Seuss Books. She is from Gertrude McFuzz, and Seussical the Musical. She was a girl-bird that she had one feather and she ate pill-berries that her uncle Doctor Dake told her of. In the book, she eats a vine of unnamed berries that have the same effects.
Miss Gertrude McFuzz is a fictitious character in: Dr. Seuss's homonymous short story Miss Gertrude McFuzz, in the book Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories and the Broadway musical Seussical, which elaborates upon it. She is one of the main female roles along with Mayzie and Mrs. Mayor. In 'Seussical the Musical', Gertrude McFuzz is an awkward, determined little bird with a one-feather tail, of which she is very ashamed.
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (1958)
Gertrude is a girl-bird that is desperately trying to grow her tail, due to it having one feather, being in the shadow of Lolla Lee Lou, who has many feathers. She goes to her uncle, Doctor Dake. He tells her of special berries that will make her tail grow, causing her to eat the entire vine. She cannot move because of her huge tail, causing Dake and other birds carry her to pluck the feathers. In the end, she realizes she is not ugly as she thought before, but smarter.
Seussical (2000)
In order to improve her appearance, and in the process win the heart of Horton the Elephant, Gertrude follows the advice of Mayzie LaBird and takes special pill-berries that allow her to grow more feathers on her tail. Horton, in his effort to find his lost clover, overlooks Gertrude's affections. Her pill-berry obsession grows out of control when she sprouts too many feathers and is unable to fly to Horton's rescue upon his capture by hunters. Near the end of the musical a once again single-feathered Gertrude returns to Horton, where he is imprisoned at the Circus McGurkus, to convey to him her true feelings and that she plucked out her beautiful tail in an effort to save him and return to him his clover that she had found after seven long weeks of searching.
Horton finally sees Gertrude, they fall in love, and Gertrude promises to help care for the newly hatched elephant bird: "I have wings, yes I can fly, you teach him earth and I will teach him sky". Gertrude's solos include the songs "Biggest Blame Fool Playoff/Gertrude McFuzz", "Amayzing Gertrude Part 2", "The One Feather Tail of Miss Gertrude McFuzz", "Notice Me Horton", and "All for You".
Horton the elephant :
Horton the Elephant is the kind-hearted elephant character who first appeared in the 1940 book, Horton Hatches the Egg.
Contents[show]
Appearance
Horton is a Grey (presumably Indian) elephant with blue eyes.
Personality
In each of Horton's book appearances he endures a good amount of ridicule, for believing in something that no one else does. In 1942 Horton the Elephant appeared in Horton Hatches the Egg.
Horton never loses faith though, even after being roped and caged he continually insisted that the Whos existed, which they did. In The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, he was performed by John Kennedy.
Horton is also one of the main characters of Seussical, combining his roles in Horton Hatches the Egg and Horton Hears a Who he sang Alone in the Universe with JoJo the small boy in Whoville. The basic storyline is centered around him. Horton the Elephant also appeared in Seussical the Musical and even one of the upcoming Starfy games, The Legendary Starfy 4. In this game, he appears with Morton the Elephant Bird
Cat in the hat:
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!="hiddenStructure"
The Cat in the Hat is a farm cat of Dr. Seuss's short story The Cat in the Hat. With his book being an overwhelmingly successful best-seller, the Cat in the Hat has become a logo for Random House's beginner books, the production logo for all of Seuss's animated shorts, and Dr. Seuss's most popular character world wide.
The Cat has made several appearances in works written by Seuss aside from the Cat in the Hat, including the book's sequel The Cat in the Hat comes back.
Contents[show]
Origin
The famous cover featuring The Cat in the Hat
Theodor Geisel created The Cat in the Hat in response to the May 24, 1954, Life magazine article by John Hersey, titled "Why Do Students Bog Down on First R? A Local Committee Sheds Light on a National Problem: Reading.” In the article, Hersey was critical of school primers:
In the classroom boys and girls are confronted with six books that have insipid illustrations depicting the slicked-up lives of other children. Primers feature abnormally courteous, unnaturally clean boys and girls. In bookstores, anyone can buy brighter, livelier books featuring strange and wonderful animals and children who behave naturally, i.e., sometimes misbehave. Given incentive from school boards, publishers could do as well with primers.
Hersey’s arguments were enumerated over ten pages of Life magazine. After detailing many issues contributing to the dilemma connected with student reading levels, Hersey asked toward the end of the article:
Why should school primers not have pictures that widen rather than narrow the associative richness the children give to the words they illustrate? Drawings like those of the wonderfully imaginative geniuses among children’s illustrators, Tenniel, Howard Pyle, "Seuss", and Walt Disney?
Ted Geisel's friend William Ellsworth Spaulding, who was then the director of Houghton Mifflin's education division, invited Geisel to dinner in Boston and "proposed” that Ted write and illustrate such a book for six- and seven-year olds who had already mastered the basic mechanics of reading. “Write me a story that first-graders can't put down!" he challenged. Spaulding supplied Geisel with a list of 348 words that every six year old should know, and insisted that the book's vocabulary be limited to 225 words. Nine months later Dr. Seuss finished The Cat in the Hat, which used 223 words that appeared on the list plus 13 words that did not. Because Geisel was under contract with Random House, Houghton Mifflin retained the school rights to The Cat in the Hat and Random House retained the rights to trade sales.
In an interview he gave in Arizona magazine in June 1981, Dr. Seuss claimed the book took nine months to complete due to the difficulty in writing a book from the 223 selected words. He added that the title for the book came from his desire to have the title rhyme and the first two suitable rhyming words that he could find from the list were "cat" and "hat". Dr. Seuss also regretted the association of his book and the "look say" reading method adopted during the Dewey revolt in the 1920s. He expressed the opinion that "Killing phonics was one of the greatest causes of illiteracy in the country."
Mascot
The Cat in the Hat is Seuss’ most famous and most popular character, followed by the Grinch and Horton the elephant. Because his book has become such a landmark in children’s literature he has been made into the mascot of Random House. The Cat in the Hat emblem has been featured on most every book published by the company since the character’s debut. “The Cat in the Hat Productions” was also the name of the production company that animated the Dr. Seuss specials from 1966 to 1989, the Cat in the Hat of course being the mascot as well.
A statue of the cat stands next to Theodor Giesel in his memorial.
Mazye la bird:
Mayzie is a character from the Dr. Seuss books. She first appeared in Horton Hatches the Egg then later she was given a prominent role in Seussical and she appeared in Horton Hatches the Egg (1942 cartoon). She also appeared in The Legendary Starfy 4.
Personality:
Mazye is a very show offish, she even has a song in seussical jr that is called, “Amazing Mazye”. She sings and acts like she is very cool and the other people are not…, this song is ment to be for two purposes
1.to show Gertude what a loser she is
2. to convey that she is the coolest one everywhere she goes
Sour kangaroo:
Sour Kangaroo, aka Jane Kangaroo is a busybody and creator of the jungle's laws who is skeptical about the existence of the Whos and Whoville on a dust speck.
Contents[show]
Character
She serves as the main antagonist of the film. As Horton's claims begin to drive her towards darkness, she believes that once other people start listening to Horton, they'll start to come to her with questions she won't be able to answer. In order to avoid this, she begins making deals with the Wickershams and the vulture hitman Vlad Vladikoff. As the film progresses, her aims start to shift towards crushing Horton's spirit and building up her own reputation. The Kangaroo is too dismissive of the products of imagination and creativity, even to the point where she keeps her son Rudy jammed inside her pouch. She believes that outside the "comfort" her ideas provide him, non-conformity and anarchy are minutes away from turning their ordered life into chaos. Yet, in the end, Horton's convincing changes her mindset.
Description
In the book she's a yellow kangaroo. In the film she is purple with turf of fur around her neck and long hair on her that stands up straight.
Ned Mcdodd (mayor of Whovile and JoJo’s dad):
Ned McDodd is the Mayor of Whoville and is the father of 96 daughters and one son. It wasn't until the movie's release that his full name was revealed, and even then he is usually addressed as his title, only being called McDodd once by the narrator's introduction of him ("was devoted, fair, and a little bit odd"), and a few times as Ned by his wife, Sally.
He is voiced by comedian Steve Carell.
Contents[show]
Personality
Ned McDodd has the Town Council waiting for him to screw up, 97 mouths to feed, and a son who hasn't spoken in years. Throw in a disembodied voice telling him his world is on the verge of apocalypse and the result is one stressed-out guy. Through it all, the Mayor is still the most dedicated father, husband, friend and civil servant in Who-ville. The pressure though is enough to make the Mayor take a swing at the Council Chairman. Well, not in real life, because that would be crazy. But the Chairman's portrait? It better watch out.
Appearance
The Mayor wears a blue coat complete with tie and mayoral crest, as well as having brown hair and fur and blue eyes.