In the Broadway musical production Seussical, her full name is given as Mayzie LaBird. When Horton and his egg (now part of a traveling circus) visit near Palm Beach, she demands it, until it hatches into an 'elephant bird'. Mayzie: A lazy bird who convinces Horton to sit on her egg, while she relaxes on Palm Beach.Kevin Chamberlin originated the role of Horton on Broadway.

Horton is also a principal character in Seussical (2000), which uses most of the two Horton books as its primary plot. Horton is also a character in the TV series The Wubbulous World of Dr. Carrey had previously voiced The Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, another Seuss adaptation involving the Whos. Horton is voiced by Jim Carrey in the 2008 computer-animated adaptation of Horton Hears A Who!, where he is shown as being eccentric and imaginative, and sort of absent-minded. Horton is voiced by Hans Conried, who also lends his voice as the narrator. In 1970, MGM Animation/Visual Arts made a 30-minute TV special of Horton Hears a Who!. made the animated short film, Horton Hatches the Egg, in which Horton is voiced by Kent Rogers. In both books and subsequent media, Horton is characterised as a kind, sweet-natured and naïve elephant who manages to overcome hardships.

Horton the Elephant is a fictional character from the 1940 book Horton Hatches the Egg and 1954 book Horton Hears a Who!, both by Dr. Morton the Elephant-Bird (adoptive stepson and adoptive son) John Kennedy ( The Wubbulous World of Dr.

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