A few disclaimers before we start:
1. JoJo is normally a boy, though some productions change the character to be a girl. Including the one in this story.
2. I'm using the Broadway lyrics to "Having a Hunch," because the scripted version isn't available on either the Broadway or Off-Broadway cast albums.
Enjoy!
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Elle's POV
Catlynn was running around the house all day, screaming songs from Seussical. I laughed, not wanting her to stop. It felt really good to see her so happy. And I was going to see her as JoJo tonight, a night I was looking forward to for months.
"Elle! We have to go!" Cat said, tapping me on the shoulder about fifty times. She opened her arms and I picked her up. Cat giggled a little and I carried her to the car.
"Bye Mommy! I love you!" Cat yelled from the sidewalk. I said, "Bye Sunshine! Break a leg tonight! I love you too!" Cat ran into the theater and I found a parking spot.
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"Are you guys excited?" Jessica asked. Everyone nodded. We were one of the first people in the theater, and I noticed that the sets were amazing. Cat told me that she helped design a few, which was super impressive. She didn't tell me which ones, but whatever ones she did were awesome. She's a super artistic girl.
Suddenly, the overture started playing and I shushed everyone else. After it was over, Cat walked out in a yellow dress.
"I know those auburn pigtails anywhere." Katie whispered. I smiled as Cat started to speak.
"Now that is a very unusual hat. I wonder what could be under a hat such as that. It could be a creature they call the Ga-Zhat 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...cat!" Cat yelled, and Cat's friend Red bolted out from a wooden door, starting the opening number.
"Seuss!" Cat yelled, and Red joined her on a platform.
"Our story begins with a very strange sound. The drums of a jungle beginning to pound!" Red said.
"Now imagine a sky." Red said to Cat.
"I'll imagine bright blue!" Cat said, and the lights turned bright blue.
That led into a musical number called Horton Hears a Who, and then a really tall girl with dirty blonde hair walked out, a younger girl sitting on her hip.
"'Twas a sour kangaroo! And the young kangaroo in her pouch said," the tall girl said.
"Humph!" the younger girl said. The older girl put her down.
"Too! Why, that speck is as small as a head of a pin! A person on that, why there never has been! Haha! You're the biggest blame fool in the Jungle of Nool, and I don't care who I tell! Biggest blame fool in the Jungle of Nool." the girl sung. She was good.
"And I think so as well!" the younger girl said. She was adorable.
"Maybe I'm nasty, maybe I'm cruel, but you're the biggest blame fool in the Jungle of Nool!"
Cat just stood on the platform with Red throughout this entire song.
Then, Cat ran off stage for a number called Here on Who, which was kind of depressing. But I knew that Cat sung more depressing songs than that. And the worst part was, JoJo's life was a lot like Cat's.
"Meet a tiny Who family on a small rainy day!" a boy said.
"Mom and Dad are just home from the Who PTA." Cat's friend Cesca said.
"And here's their daughter JoJo in trouble again." the boy said. Red shoved Cat towards Cesca and the boy. They scolded Cat, and as soon as I heard the word "bathtub." I knew what was coming.
"It's Possible." I whispered to Jessica, who smiled.
"You got me in trouble! Get out, go away!" Cat yelled to Red.
"Alright, I'll be going. But first let me say...oh the thinks you can think!"
"Stop!" Cat yelled.
"Oh the thinks you can think, as you splash and you splish." Red said.
"I'm not listening!" Cat yelled, covering her ears.
"As you sit there and scrub, have a Think in that tub. Think of water and fish!" Red sung.
"Fish?" Cat asked.
"Think of pipes in the floor leading down to the shore where the water is cool. Soon your tub's not a tub..."
"It's McElligot's pool!" Cat yelled.
It's Possible was amazing, as I expected it to be. Cat was truly an amazing little actress. Then, Alone in the Universe started, and I started crying. Cat singing that truly was amazing. She conveyed her whole life story in that one song.
Soon, a girl in a blue dress walked out strumming a blue ukulele.
"Is that Cat's friend Emily?" Jessica whispered. I took a closer look at the girl and nodded.
Emily started singing, but she was cut off by a girl in a red dress and sunglasses.
A few minutes later, Emily was talking to Red, who was speaking in total gibberish.
"Huh?" Emily asked.
"In other words, your little tail is just right for your kind of bird!" Red said.
Emily went CRAZY. Then Red rolled out a massive bush, and Emily pretended to pluck all the pom poms off of it and eat them.
"Emily no." I whispered to myself. Jessica tried to hold in her laughter next to me.
"So Gertrude is happy. Her tail's nice and long." Cat said.
"Kid, fasten your seatbelt. Cause now things go wrong!" Red said. Then these 3 kids came out, the tallest of them sitting on the stairs. After their song was finished, they took the fake flower out of Axel's hand and ran around the theater.
The tall, very impressive dirty blonde girl came back, with the little girl again. They started to sing, but I didn't pay attention. All I cared about was Axel chasing those 3 kids again. They were fast for teenage theater kids.
After that song was over, Red sung a song called How Lucky You Are, dancing around with the flower. Then she casually dropped it on the ground and skipped off stage.
Then Emily came back and started singing.
"It's taken all my courage to approach you, not to mention all my stamina to follow you across the hills and desert. But I feel as if I'm ready to confess to you the feelings that I've hidden with great diligence and labor. Behind the facade of your odd little next door neighbor. My eyes are too small, I have very large feet, and I'm not very proud of my pitiful tweet. But I've now got a tail that is something too see..."
Axel wasn't paying attention. He was on the ground, counting clovers.
"Oh, notice me, Horton! Feather by feather. This is your next door neighbor calling! Notice me, Horton! Horton, together we could be great! Oh, notice me, Horton, put down the clover! This is your next door neighbor calling! There's a new leaf your neighbor's turned over..."
After Axel and Emily sung for a while, Axel left. Emily looked dejected.
"I will not give up hope. I was hooked from the start when I noticed your kind and your powerful heart! So notice me, Horton...notice me, Horton...the way I notice you!" Emily sung.
After a few minutes, Cat and the Whos came back. Cat started to sing.
"When you land with a thud and you're bumped and you're bruised. When you're trapped and you're grounded and lost and confused, tell yourself how lucky you are!" Cat sung.
"Isn't this where the crash line is?" Katie whispered. I nodded, but to my surprise, the line was changed.
"Who...how?" Ryan asked.
"I did it." Jessica whispered smugly during intermission. "I emailed the director."
"Okay, this is no time for bragging rights! Sheesh!" I yelled. Then Act 2 started.
First, the dirty blonde girl, Astrid, and a girl named Bella came out and sung a song called Egg, Nest, and Tree.
Then, Horton was sold to the circus. And then he sung Solla Sollew.
"That's one of Cat's calming songs. That's how I know it so well." Katie said.
To my surprise, Cat came back, marching in with Schmitz and the Cadets.
"Sir, this war makes no sense! Just one Think, and you'd quit! Spreading butter up or down doesn't matter a bit. We're crashed in the clover, there's no help in sight. So why are you here teaching children to fight? And not only that, it's Christmas on Who! I'd rather have Christmas than war, wouldn't you? So here's my sword, and here's my hat. I'm going home, and that sir, is that!" Cat yelled.
Then she ran in a minefield and exploded.
JoJo was dead.
I started to cry a little, thinking about how I would feel if that happened to the actual Cat. Horrible.
Then, a song called Having a Hunch started to play.
"Oh no. It's what Cat calls the nightmare song." Evan said.
"I've got brains in my head and feet in my shoes!" Cat sung.
"So steer yourself any direction you choose! And oh, the places you'll go! You're on your own, you know what you know! Don't worry about how fast or how slow! Be certain to step with caution and tet cause life is a great big balancing act! And will you succeed? You will, yes indeed!" the ensemble sung.
Cat ran on the stairs and yelled "98 and three quarters percent guaranteed!"
After that song was over, Emily came back and sung a beautiful song called All for You. Then Horton was put on trial.
And the Whos were about to be boiled alive.
"JoJo! Think of something!" the Mayors yelled.
"Boil it! Boil it! Boil it! Boil it! Boil it! Boil it! Boil it!
Boil it! Boil it!" the jungle animals yelled.
"YOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!" Cat yelled at the top of her lungs.
Then the closing number started, and it was the most adorable thing ever.
"Seuss!" Cat yelled one last time, pulling the red and white striped hat over her eyes.
Then the bows started. When Cat came out to bow, we were all screaming. Cat deserved it. She was amazing.
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Catlynn's POV
"ELLE!" I yelled, running into Elle's arms. Elle picked me up and spun me around, and Alice yelled, "What am I? Chopped liver?" I laughed and hugged the rest of my family, who handed me a bouquet of flowers. I was sweating like crazy.
"Hey! Cat!" Red cried, waving me over. I ran to her and hugged her.
"Amazing job. See you tomorrow? Cast party!" Red said. This time, it was at Red's house.
I smiled and said, "Yeah!" and then we headed on home.
I started to really like acting.
AN: Whoo! That was a long chapter! And my friends OC's were in this show! ThatPlanetEnby 's character Emily played Gertrude, Spaceheater1 's character Comet played the Little Kangaroo (the girl who was practically attached to Erin) and TheatreGeek1011 's character Bella played a Bird Girl! Hope you enjoyed! Catch ya later!