(Don’t think I don’t know how lame that it is
To open a preview in parenthesis,
Or to try, how hopelessly!, to emulate
The style of Seuss, the late and the great!)
Now that it’s started, this crap can’t be stopped
Until, like the Lorax, I find myself chopped
I’m glancing about, so that no one will see,
I’m changing my name to Star-Bellied B.!
This play combines Cats and Elephants (tame)
The one in the hat and Horton (of “Hoo” fame)
The best Seuss work sadly did not make the cut,
His Spanish-American Dictionary, that’s what!
Or the one where the beasts hold such a grudge
That both from one spot simply will not budge
Time marches on like a grand game of chess
That would be boring to watch, I confess!
So here is the part where the rhyming gets rough
I may make up words like “higgledy-puff”
The part of “The Cat” will be played by Cathy
Rigby, who also played Oz’s Dorothy.
That was weak, that was weak, and it only gets worse!
Double-space, double-space, and be done with this verse!
So if these bad rhymes do not make you nostalgic
For one whose were better and much less lethargic
Then you never read Dr. Seuss as a youth
You skipped straight to Camus, berets and vermouth!
It’s a musical, yes, it is praised and it rhymes.
Maybe the show will bring back better times
Maybe it’s been bastardized by The Man
Either way, Dr. Seuss should never be banned!