Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (Broadway)

[CAT IN THE HAT, spoken]
I can see that you've got quite a mind for your age!
Why, one Think and you dragged me right onto the stage!
Now, I'm here, that is no telling what may ensue
With a Cat such as me, and a Thinker like you!

[THE CAT begins to "create" the Seussian world of imagination for THE BOY.]

[CAT IN THE HAT, sung]
Oh, the thinks you can think!
Oh, the thinks you can think
If you're willing to try...

Think invisible ink!
Or a gink with a stink!
Or a stair to the sky...
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...

[The company of "Seussian" characters now enter]

[ALL (except BOY)]
Seuss!

Seuss!
Seuss!
Seuss!
Seuss! Seuss! Seuss! Seuss!
Seuss!

Oh, the thinks you can think!
Any thinker who thinks
Can come up with a few!

[BOY]
Oh, the thinks you can think!

[ALL]
Think a trip on a ship
To the Vipper of Vipp

[WOMEN]
Or to Solla Sollew...

[CAT, spoken]
Think of beautiful Schlopp...

[BOY]
With a cherry on top!

[ALL, sung]
You don't need an excuse!

[CAT & BOY, spoken]
Oh, the thinks you can think

[ALL, sung]
When you think about Seuss!
Seuss, Seuss, Seuss
Seuss!

[HORTON]
Think of an elephant up in a tree!

[MR. & MRS. MAYOR]
Think of a person too tiny to see!

[GERTRUDE]
Think of a bird with a one-feather tail!

[ALL]
Going on adventure down a dangerous trail!

[MAYZIE]
Think of a bird who flies off on a spree!

[SOUR KANGAROO]
Think of a kangaroo, sour as can be!

[GENERAL GENGHIS KAHN SCHMITZ]
Think of a general crazy for war!

[CAT]
Think of something horrible and hairy!

[CAT & PRINCIPLES (except BOY)]
Something sinister and scary

[ALL (except BOY]
That you never dared to think of before!

[ALL (except CAT & BOY)]
Think of nobody here
And the feeling of fear
And the darkness of night

Ooh ooh...

[ALL (except BOY)]
All alone in your room
As you're facing your doom

[CAT, spoken]
Think a glimmer of light!

[ALL (except BOY), sung]
Aah ahh!

[CAT]
But I hope you're prepared
To be scareder than scared!

[ALL (except BOY)]
Cause this ain't Mother Goose!

[CAT, spoken]
Danger's right on the brink...!

[ALL (except BOY), sung]
When you think about Seuss!

[MEN]
Seu-u-u-u-u
Seu... Seu...
Seu-u-u-uss
Seu-u-u-u-u

[MEN & WOMEN]
Seuss! Seuss!

[CAT, spoken]
An unusual story will soon be unfurled
Of an elephant trying to save a small world...
And a boy from that world who has Thinks just like you!

[CAT & ALL]
Just think!

[WHOS, sung]
From the Planet of Who

[BOY]
And the smallest of small

[CITIZENS OF THE JUNGLE]
To the Jungle of Nool

[HORTON]
And the largest of all...

[GROUP 1, CAT, & GROUP 2]
You think
You think
And think and think and think
And think and think
And think and think and think
And think and think
And think and think and think
And think and think
And think and think and think!
And think!

[ALL]
Just think!

Oh, the thinks you can think!
Think and wonder and dream--
Far and wide as you dare!

[CAT, spoken]
Oh, the thinks you can think!

[ALL, sung]
When your thinks have run dry
In the blink of an eye
There's 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

[BARITONES & BASSES]
Oh, the thinks you can think

[ALL]
Oh, the thinks you can think!

[TENORS]
Oh, the thinks you can think!

[ALL]
Oh, the thinks you can think
When you think about Seuss!
When you think about Seuss!
When you think about Seuss!

[The SOUR KANGAROO riffs through the following.]

[GROUP 1, GROUP 2, GROUP 3, & GROUP 4]
Seu-u-u-u-u
Seu... Seu...
Seu... Seu...
Seuss!
Seuss! Seuss!
Seu-u-u-uss
Seuss!
Seuss! Seuss!

Seu-u-u-u-u
Seu... Seu...
Seu... Seu...
Seuss!
Seuss! Seuss!
Seu-u-u-uss
Seuss!
Seuss! Seuss!

Seu-u-u-u-u
Seu... Seu...
Seu... Seu...
Seuss!
Seuss! Seuss!
Seuss! Seuss!
Seuss!
Seuss!
Seuss!
Seuss!

[BOY, spoken]
Seuss!