Horton Hear A Who Analysis

An orchestra of power tools blare in the background as people move rapidly about carrying rolls of masking tape and wet paintbrushes. The commotion doesn't phase them. They are standing center stage staring into eachothers eyes, talking barely loud enough for only them to hear, not once noticing that they are in the wrong place for rehearsal. They’re in their own world, just the two of them. Boyfriend and girlfriend, Horton and Gertrude, Jackson and Kylie.
In late November, Junior Jackson Bush and Senior Kylie Ledford sat down at their first table read for this year’s musical, Seussical. Not surprised to hear that the couple of six months had obtained the roles of love interests Horton and Gertrude, the room burst with amusement and scattered awe’s.

Seuss books Horton Hears a Who, Horton Hatches the Egg and Gertrude McFuzz. The big helpful elephant and the odd bird with the single feathered tail are caught up in a series of events when Horton finds a speck on a clover and is determined to prove that there is another world of things living on it.
“In the show, he’s obsessed with this clover, and well, I’m obsessed with him,” Kylie said, “So it’s funny because the whole time, Gertrude is just trying to get him to love her but he just ignores her, we like to think that our relationship doesn’t relate to theirs. Hopefully.”
Kylie walks down the ramp to rehearsal carrying one backpack on each shoulder and various bags in her hands. Laughing, she drops the stuff off next to Jackson and reads through their script.
Their scenes during rehearsals do not go unnoticed by the rest of the cast, whether it’s an interaction between them or a cute moment on stage, people laugh and awe while the two carry on with their scene trying to hold in their laughs.
With about two hours of rehearsals per day, Stage Right and extracurricular choirs, their schedules don’t include much free time; but everything they do, they do