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Puppetopia: The Magnificent Ms. Pham

by Jonathan Mandell

This elaborate, tuneful puppet musical doesn't just tell the story of the journey of Kim Pham from Vietnamese "hometown girl" riding a water buffalo to young romantic in Saigon to war refugee "boatperson" to mother of four sons in Houston, Texas.  It threads the tale with Vietnamese history and mythology, populates it with elephants, lions, dragons...

SOURCE: New York Theater at 3:20pm on March 1, 2026