Posted by: hannaheath on 03/09/2008 09:16 PM
Updated by: Kim_Hamilton on 03/09/2008 09:30 PM
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"Who's" Come to San Andreas ~ By Hanna Heath
San Andreas, CA… The fabulous student actors from both Toyon Middle School and Calaveras High School have put on a wonderful play production “Seussical” after the creative Dr. Seuss book Horton Hear a Who. The play tells the story of Horton the Elephant who, on the fifteenth of May in the Jungle of Nool, hears a small speck of dust talking to him. It turns out the speck of dust is actually a tiny planet, home to a city called "Who-ville", inhabited by microscopic-sized inhabitants known as Whos……
   
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Horton is a kind, sweet-natured elephant who cares about other animals or people. Though he goes through many hardships, whether trying to keep an egg warm through storms, rough travels, and humiliating shows or trying to save a small planet from harm, he always triumphs; the egg hatches into an elephant-bird, while the planet is saved and respected by the others.
The Whos ask Horton (who, though he cannot see them, is able to hear them quite well) to protect them from harm, to which Horton happily obliges, proclaiming throughout the book that "a person's a person, no matter how small". In doing so he is ridiculed and forced into a cage by the other animals in the jungle for believing in something that they are unable to see or hear.
His chief tormentors are Vlad Vladikoff, the Wickersham Brothers and the Sour Kangaroo, and the small kangaroo in her pouch. Horton tells the Whos that they needed to make themselves heard to the other animals, lest they end up as part of "beezlenut stew", which they finally accomplish.
The Whos finally make themselves heard by ensuring that all members of their society play their part. In the end it is the smallest Who of all, Jo-Jo, who provides the last volume lift to be heard, thus reinforcing the moral of "a person's a person no matter how small".
Thirty –two students performed in the hysterical play. Below is the cast list.
The Cat in the Hat : Haley Koolhoven
Jojo: Kyle smith
Horton the Elephant: Jack Carlile
Gertrude Mcfuzz: Ashley Chase
Mayzie La Bird: Margie Rodriguez
The sour Kangaroo: Bobby Elsey
General Gengus Khan Schmitz: Jim Carlile
Wickersham Brothers: Amanda Schoennauer, Josie Moore, Lucas Youngblood
Bird Girls: Rachel Geiszler, Kayla Smith, Erin Kannel
Mayor of Whoville: Patrick Hogdson
Mrs. Mayor: Lina Alfinito
Judge Yertle the Turtle: Jim Carlile
Vlad Vladikoff: Mariam Robertson
The Grinch: Katelyn Grannis
Thing 1: Brianna McGinness
Thing 2: Bridgette McGinness
Young Kangaroo: alexis Schoennauer
Elephant Bird: Sierra Siegel
Great job cast and crew, another wonderful production!
“Oh the think you can think
Think and wonder dream
Far and wide as you dare
When you thinks have run dry
In the blink of an eye
There’a another think there.
If you open your mind
Oh, the thinks you will find
Lining up to get loose
Oh, the thinks you can think
When you think about Seuss.”
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