Chasing The Whos - Original Broadway Cast Recording

HORTON (spoken)
Hey! Give that back! Stop!

(Citizens of the Jungle enter to watch and comment on the commotion)

SOUR KANGAROO
Up out of the jungle,
Up into the sky
Up over the mountains,

SOUR KANGAROO & BIRD GIRLS
Ten thousand feet high,

SOUR KANGAROO
Then down from the mountains

SOUR KANGAROO & BIRD GIRLS
And into the news

ALL (EXCEPT HORTON)
Went Horton the Elephant
Chasing the Whos!

WOMEN
Chasing the Whos!

MEN
Chasing the Whos!

(Helicopter blades swirl as the Cat enters as a Helicopter Newscaster)

THE CAT (spoken; as NEWCASTER)
This is the Cat in the Hat
Live from Skycam Five.
Folks, the Jungle of Nool
Is one heck of a drive.
We've got monkeys backed up
To the Three-Oh-Two
I'd find alternate routes
If I were you!

(The Cat "flies" off)

WICKERSHAMS, SOUR KANGAROO & BIRD GIRLS
Then over the desert,
The Desert of Dreze,
And into the forest
With thousands of trees,
Past Sneetches on beaches

SOUR KANGAROO
And sour kangaroos!

(Sung simultaneously)

ALL (EXCEPT HORTON & "VOCALLY LOW MEN"
Went Horton the Elephant
Chasing the Whos

Chasing the Whos!

VOCALLY LOW MEN
Chasing the Whos!
Chasing the...
Chasing the Whos!

WICKERSHAM #1 (spoken)
Still chasin' your dust?
Why, it's safe as can be.

(Wickersham #3 chuckles)

WICKERSHAM #2 (spoken)
We're monkeys to trust.
Or well, don't you agree?

WICKERSHAM #3 (spoken)
Well, just to be sure
We're handing it off

WICKERSHAMS (spoken)
To a black-bottomed eagle named...

VLAD VLADIKOFF (spoken)
Vlad Vladikoff!!

(Vlad laughs maniacally as he swoops
the clover away from the Wickershams)

HORTON (spoken)
Please! Wait!

(During the Bird Girls' section,
Vlad caws as he flies away with the
clover and with Horton following in pursuit)

BIRD GIRLS
All that late afternoon
And far into the night,
That black-bottomed bird
Flapped his wings in fast flight,
And he paid no attention
To Horton's loud call:

HORTON
A person's a person
No matter how small!

WHOS (spoken; screaming)
Aaahhh!!! Aaahhh!!!

WHOS
We're Whos here! We're all Whos here!
Please don't let us fall!

WHOS (spoken; screaming)
Aaah!!

WHOS
We're Whos here. We could bruise here!
Helpless, weak and small.

WHOS (spoken; screaming)
Aaah!!

CITIZENS OF THE JUNGLE, WHOS
On Horton travelled
And on that bird flew.
And, oh, there was trouble,

WHOS
Trouble on Who!

ALL (INCLUDING WHOS)
That black-bottomed eagle
Was cruel as could be...

HORTON (spoken)
'Cause at six fifty-six, Vlad Vladikoff dropped it.
The clover went tumbling and nobody stopped it!
Head over heels, a hundred miles down,
Fell the poor little Whos and their whole tiny town!

WHOS (spoken; screaming)
Aaaah!!



Credits
Writer(s): Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Charles Flaherty, Theo Seuss P/k/a Dr. Seuss Geisel
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