Act I[]
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*It shows The Cat in the Hat flying across the sky with his umbrella, and eventually from a forest into a small little town with a school, and he approaches the school.*
The Cat in the Hat: It's hard to believe such a thing could be true. And I hope such a thing never happens to you. But it happened they say, to poor Mayzie McGrew.
*He puts up his umbrella, grabs his hat, and falls down the chimney of the school.*
Ms. Sneetcher: Now children settle down now. Just turn to page 6, and then page 42...
*It fades into a classroom full of children and then eventually it pans over to show the front row of students until we eventually see The Cat in the Hat with a textbook as well reading it. He looks up and looks at us.*
The Cat in the Hat: It happened like this; She was sitting one day at her desk in the school in her usual way, when she felt a small twitch on the top of her head, so Mayzie looked up, and she almost dropped dead. Something peculiar was going on there. A daisy had sprouted right out of her hair!
*Mayzie gasps in horror and leans back as the daisy turns around to look at Butch.*
The Cat in the Hat: Behind her was sitting young Herman Butch Stroodle.
Butch: This looks like a daisy up here on her noodle. It doesn't make sense, why it couldn't be so! A noodle’s no place for a daisy to grow.
*The teacher adjusts her glasses to see what’s wrong.*
The Cat in the Hat: Then upspoke another boy, Einstein Van Tess, the brightest young boy in the whole of the class.
Einstein: It's a very odd place to be sprouting a daisy, but nevertheless one is growing on Mayzie.
Butch: Hey! Look what's happening here in this room. Daisy-Head Mayzie, she's bursting in bloom!
*The kids all start laughing.*
The Cat in the Hat: Miss Sneetcher, her teacher, came rushing up quick.
Ms. Sneetcher: Such nonsense, some child here is playing a trick. Which one of you boys stuck that thing in her hair? You know that a Daisy could never grow there.
Butch: But teacher, Ms. Sneetcher, I saw the thing rise, right out of her head with my very own eyes!
Einstein: Just give it a yank if you think he tells lies.
Ms. Sneetcher: I've had quite enough of this foolishness talk, uh... Mayzie hold still, let me get at that stalk!
*She tries to grab it as the daisy dodges, until she sucessfully does.*
Mayzie: Ouch!
Butch: You'd better quit yanking, you're giving her pains. I'll bet that those roots go way down in her brains! *chanting/singing.* Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie!
All the Kids: Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie! Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie! Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie! Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie! Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie!
Ms. Sneetcher: Uh, children, be quiet! Good grief and alas! To think this is happening right here in my class!
All the Kids: *Now all singing.* Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie! Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie!
Ms. Sneetcher: I've taught in this room 20 years. Maybe more. But I've never seen anything like this before!
All the Kids: *Now all singing.* Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie! Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie!
Ms. Sneetcher: I’ll have to report it. You’ll just have to come to the principal's office and show Mr. Grumm.
All the Kids: *All still singing, including other kids from the other classrooms now singing along as well as they all see Mayzie being carried by Ms. Sneetcher down the hallway and into Mr. Grumm's office.* Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie! Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie! Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie! Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie!
*It shows the principal Mr. Grumb's office being a humongous room with mountains of books, a Greek-looking statue, and his desk like usual along with a pink carpet.*
The Cat in the Hat: Now the principal, good Mr. Gregory Grumm. Was very wise man. Just as smart as they'd come. He know more than anyone else in this nation. About long division, and multiplication!
*He is using a helmet that allows him to read multiple books at once while a bunch of hands with gloves on each turns all the pages along with telescopes on each as well. He takes it off and hides his books as soon as he hears the knock at his office door.*
Mr. Grumm: Come in!
The Cat in the Hat: He knew all the answers. Why oceans are deep, why skies are so high, and why mountains are steep. *The Cat in the Hat opens up a book that has butterflies flying out of it and up to the mountains of books.*
Ms. Sneetcher: Can you tell us about this thing on young Mayzie?
Mr. Grumm: *He gets out his triple magnifying glass to look at Mayzie's daisy.* My word, a genuine daisy! I've seen this before in fields growing wild but never before on the head of a child. Now what in the world has made this thing sprout? I have no idea, but I'm going to find out! *He imitates the pose on his statue in his library.*
Mr. Grumm: *Singing* It says in this book daises grow on the land, they grow between rocks they grow also in sand! It mentions right here they can grow in aa pot, but mentioning the head of a girl it does not. Daises it says sometimes grow in Alaska, on shore and Rode Island, and Nebraska, they grow in Japan ad in Spain, and Peru, in India, France, and in Idaho too! Daisys flower by the score, Timbuktu and Timbuck-four, Katmandu, Katman-did, they surely do and always did. In Shangrila, Australia, Malaysia and Zanzibar. Even some parts of Africa, daisies are nearly EVERYWHERE! But to have a daisy in your hair, is something new and something rare, in all my years of being right i've never seen so strange of sight!
Mayize: It stopped growing! I think, I think it's going!
Ms. Sneetcher: It's wilting, it's drooping, how wonderful Mayzie, it soon will be gone you'll be rid of that daisy!
Mr. Grumm: In a few moments our troubles will pass, as soon as it's dead, take her back to class.
*Ms. Sneetcher gasps in horror as her and Mr. Grumm finds out that the daisy is tied to Mayzie's health.*
The Cat in the Hat: Pretty soon, the teacher saw a horrible sight, the daisy was dying and that was alright, but that daisy was also a part of Ms. Mayzie McGrew, and Mayzie was starting to wilt away too!
Mr. Grumm: *Echoed and all double vision from Mayzie’s POV.* Teacher, Ms. Sneetcher! I think, they're both going to wilt! Quick, bring them a drink!
*Ms. Sneetcher pours water out from a vase and onto Mayzie which she and the daisy narrowly survive as s he wipes herself in relief with a handkerchief.*
Ms. Sneetcher: Oh my! *Relived.* Oh!
Mr. Grumm: That daisy, that girl is the worst problem in town. You take her away and you make her lie down! Lock her up tight int hat room down the hall, there's quite a few people that I've got to call! I need Mayzie parents on the end f the line, indeed them here quick, while there's still time!
Mr.s McGrew: Mr.s McGrew, what's all the fuss? Great heaven's to Betsy, I'll catch the next bus!
Mr. Grumb: Hello, I need Mr. McGrew!
Man: Are you McGrew? Call for you.
Mr. McGrew: Yes, this is- *breaks telephone wire after hearing the news* WHAT? I'll be there in a jot!
Man: My shoe McGrew! My shoe!
Doctor: That's quite a neat trick! I'll be there in a tick!
Mr Grumm: *Over the phone.* We need all the help we can get!
Hairy and Bearded Patient Man: Then I'll come along too, my brother's a vet!
Florist: Finch the Florist, roses, carnations, holly- What? You mean up here? *Points to his head. Then gets a wicked idea.* I'll be right over! *Runs and goes gets his stuff to possibly cut the daisy off.*
*Ms. Sneetcher.*
Ms: Sneetcher: My oh my!
*Mayzie gets comfortable and her daisy lays down with her. Suddenly she hears a bunch of bees flying over the school and the daisy wakes up in horror and then Daisy looks out the window in fear.*
Mayzie: BEES?!
*The bees are flying over the school.*
Mayzie: *She looks at the daisy who's scared.* Uh oh.
*She watches the bees come closer and closer.*
*The bees are continuing to fly window and over the school, she looks at the window and looks at the door and gets reminded that it's locked,*
*As the bees are flying, a bee looks at the school, notices Mayzie her daisy from down below and "laughs" in buzzing form and then motions his friends to come and get Mayzie, and they all zoom down to get her.*
*Mayzie uses a pillow as a way of catching her fall and jumps out the balcony and onto the ground safely. Then she runs as the bees all fly into the room and then out of it to go get her as she runs off.*
*She starts running from the bees as they gain on her. She then goes over a tree as they all head the wrong direction. She is relieved, but then shortly after the bees go the other way. She screams in horror as she notices the bees are coming back, and then she jumps out of the tree and starts running the other way. It then fades to a police man walking peacefully. She accidentally bumps into him and then they both see each other face to face as the policeman is mad at her until she points to the bees coming toward them. He then keeps her hidden as the bees come closer. He then takes off his hat and catches the entire crowd of them into his hat as Daisy runs off. He then blows his whistle at her and chases her as the bees, now in control of the hat follow them both along.*
Man: Wait McGrew! My shoe! My shoe mcgrew! My shoe! *He goes into the school building with him.*
*Mayzie and the policeman are still running and they run past the school with the bees still in hot pursuit.*
*People are running down the hallways trinyg to find Mr. Grumm.*
Ms. Sneetcher: My oh my.
*The crowd of people he called burst into his office and go up to him,asking questions.*
Mr. McGrew: Hi, I'm Mr. McGrew. Where is my daughter?
Mr. Grumm: I thought she was with you!
Customer Shoe Man: I believe that's my shoe!
*Everyone continues to argue in front of the Principal as he slowly ducks for cover underneath his desk. Suddenly Dr. Eisenbart appears with his doctor kit and puts it on the principal's desk as he introduces himself.*
Doctor. Eiseinbart: Dr. Eiseinbart. Please let me-
*Mayzie flies into the window screaming as the policeman and her both land safely into the window, the policeman then close the window as the bees splat and then slide off the window along with the hat.*
Doctor. Eiseinbart: Through.....
Mrs. mcgrew: *screams* My poor little daughter! The daisy! It's true! *She faints and falls into the arms of the children.*
*The florist snaps his scissors to show that he will cut the daisy off, as she wakes up a little bit and screams again, but then faint again.*
Doctor. Eiseinbart: Shhh!
*He listens to the daisy's heart. Which is at first resistant but after a couple ties he successfully listens to it, which sounds like a bunch of walking and then a snap sound is heard at the end of the session.*
Doctor Eiseinbart: You know what i think? I think Mayzie and her plant, can help me get a research grant! *He laughs.*
*Everyone groans in annoyance. Then suddenly a fanfare is heard.*
The Mayor's Servant: His honor: The Mayor!
*The Mayor comes in and then his servant prepares a walkway made out of books for him on the top of Mr. grumb's office table and he climbs on top of it using the book as steps and then starts singing.*
The Mayor: I am very important that 's why I'm The Mayor, I have posters and walls here are there. At meetings and greetings there's really nothing to compare! I'm the best at long speeches! Chock full of hot air. I promise my friends, that if I'm reelected, this daisy on Mayzie will be disconnected He promises his friends that is he's reelected this daisy young Mayzie will be disconnected! The law of our fathers is simple and sound, daisy's belong and should stay in the ground! The rest are illegal, we'll bar them all from town! *Mayzie looks in in horror as everyone applauds him, with Mayzie still looking on in horror. They give the mayor a bunch of flowers.*
The Mayor; *crying tears of joy* Oh, thanks you! Thank you! Thank you! *He cries while holding a handkerchief from tears of joy.*
All the kids; Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie! This daisy on Mayzie has sent the town crazy! Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head Mayzie. Daisy-Head, Daisy-Head,
Finagle: *singing awkwardly.* DAISY! *laughs while singing.* *The mayor looks ion in disappointment.* HEAD... MAY…-*he awkwardly looks at her and touches her face.* ZIE... * back to silently chuckling a little bit.* I'M* singing more lively now.* Finagle! The agent! You've heard of me i'm sure i represent "what's his name" and others now on tour! *He gives her his business card.* Oh Mayzie your'e so special, pleaser let me shake your hand! Your talent is a wondrous thing needed in all the land! That Daisy's your ticket to fortune and fame, where the money rolls in barrel loads, to the rights to your sweet name!
*Singing even more lively.*
Finagle: *Singing* Daisy-Head Mayzie, spelled out in bright lights. We'll draw kids in the day, and their parents are night! Little children will plead just for a peek at your weed,. Oh Mayzie you've got quite an act. Now stick with me kid and sign this contract!
*He puts out a long contract in a scroll.*
Mrs. McGrew: Mayzie, no! Don't be a fool!
Mr. Grumm: Don't turn your back on the friends and the school!
That Cat in the Hat: But Mayzie didn't stop to think, she signed her name in Think-Proof ink!
Finagle: Your flower needs to sign too. Just a floral-mality. *He chuckles nervously.* You understand. *He chuckles even more.*
*The daisy uses Finagle's hair gel which is made out of ink to put it's flower print on the contract as a form of signage. Finagle then rolls up his contract feeling satisfied.*
Mrs. McGrew: Mayzie, Mayzie what have you done?
Mayzie: I'm going to be famous, and have lots of fun!
*it shows a compilation of Mayzie becoming a superstar very shortly after departing town and her family and friends. First it shows Mayzie on the TIME magazine, getting her hands and daisy printed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, being on billboards for a perfume advertisement on a highway, opening a factory that makes little red hats with daisy on them that people can wear, as well as showing the strange machine in action and well as showing her lastly going to a move premiere, with the same police officer that helped her earlier holindg people back and winking at her.*
News Reporter: Daisy-Head Fever is gripping the nation! It’s quickly becoming a worldwide sensation! *It shows the Statue of Liberty with a daisy on her head, it shows the Sphinx in Egypt with a daisy on it's head, it shows Mount Rushmore with Daisys on all of the president's heads, it shows the Thinker with a daisy on his head, it shows the Venus de Milo with a daisy on it’s head, it shows The Michelangelo David with a daisy on his head, and even the Mona Lisa in the Louvre with a daisy on her head.*
Mrs. McGrew: *Back showing her family trying to get a hold of her on the phone.* Can I speak to my daughter? It's Mrs. McGrew.
Security Guard: Sorry, she’s busy until uh…”Four Thousand and Two”. *He looks at his watch.*
*It shows Mayzie signing autographs at a stand with a picture of her head in the middle of a wreath in the background.*
*It shows a bunch of the products with daisies on top of them.*
The Cat in the Hat: Daisy-head burgers, and daisy-head drinks, daisy-head stockings, and daisy-head sinks?
*It shows a carnival with Daisy being the star at it ran by Finagle.*
The Cat in the Hat: Daisy-head buttons, and Daisy-head bows! Mayzie was famous, the star of her shows!
Finagle: Come one, come all! See Daisy-Head Mayzie there's not much to say, the daffy and dandy new Daisy Ballet! Don't be shy little lady, have a good stare! At the girl with a daisy, that grows out of her hair!
*Mayzie looks down and is saddened at the sight of all of this as people look at her on a display in a freak show.*
*It shows a big mansion where Mayzie lives now, on the top of another building in a small house with a Daisy on top of it. A butler with a bunch of money on a platter knocks on her door.*
The Cat in the Hat: Fame had knocked on Mayzie's door.
Mayzie: Come in!
The Cat in the Hat: And now she had it all and more! She had all her money stacked up in tens but what is money without all your friends? She found her dream but lost her way, that was a price she just couldn't pay!
*She throws all her money in the air as it then transitions to her running through the woods crying and saddened by the fact that she lost her friends and family.*
The Cat in the Hat: So Mayzie McGrew, she ran night and day, with nowhere to go and nowhere to stay.
*It shows her finally on a curved cliff in the sunset crying her eyes out.*
Mayzie: *sobbing* I can never go home! Nobody loves me! Nobody loves me. Nobody loves me! *she continues sobbing.*
*The Cat in the Hat suddenly appears right next to her with his umbrella from the cliff to console her while still narrating.*
The Cat in the Hat: Nobody loved her, poor Mayzie McGrew, it's hard to believe such a thing could be true. And maybe that's why this daisy above, when daisy below started talking of love. Well yoy know about daisys when love is in doubt, the job of a daisy is try and find out! They love you, they love you not, they love you, they love you not.
Mayzie: They love me, they love me not, they love me? They love me not?! *There does not appear to be any more pedals left but then the Daisy looks all over and finds and extra one and then throws it down, showing the final and correct answer that they do in-fact love her.*
The Cat in the Hat: Don't worry Mayzie, they love you! *The daisy disappears and then she grabs onto The Cat in the Hat as he flies her home with birds accompanying them on their joruney to taking her back home to her friends and family at the school where it all started.*
Mayzie: They love me!
The Cat in the Hat: And that's the moral of this story. Love means more than fame and glory!
*It shows her back at school doing her usual thing and everything being normal again.*
The Cat in the Hat: Well, that’s how it happened, the thing went away. And Mayzie McGrew is quite happy today, back at her studies and doing just great in all of her subject in rule 28. And concerning that daisy, you know that it never grew out of the top of her head again ever.
*It grows again out of her head, and all the students notice and laugh a little bit as she isn't so shocked this time.*
The Cat in the Hat: Well it practically never popped up there again. Except occasionally just every now and then.
Mayzie: And after all, I am getting used to it!
*It shows a blue iris which fades out on her as she winks at the camera twice. Then the daisy appears and waves goodbye through one of it's pedals and then goes back out as it goes back to a plain blue screen and then fades to black.*