Leah Huete Photography
Happy Birthday, Mon Ami
Happy Birthday, Mon Ami was awarded a 2024 Jim Henson Foundation grant.
Happy Birthday, Mon Ami was awarded a 2024 Jim Henson Foundation grant.
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Class, cultures, and expectations clash when Jacques’ American cousin Sam visits him in Paris for a birthday celebration. Winner of a 2024 Jim Henson Foundation grant award, Happy Birthday, Mon Ami combines glove puppetry, live music, and audience participation to create a delightful hour of fun for the whole family.
60 minutes. No intermission. All ages. Available for touring engagements. Tech rider available upon request. |
Photographs by Leah Huete Photography and Ryan Maxwell Photography.
PRESS:
Broadway World:
“It is tiny, enchanting and exquisite, like a delicious handcrafted chocolate truffle in a gleaming box.”
- Cybele Pomeroy, Broadway World
“Happy Birthday, Mon Ami is a show for lovers, for puppet lovers, for accordion lovers and for those who love the idea of travel but not the exertion of actual travel. Transport yourself to Paree, er, Paris, with Alex and Olmsted and enjoy the tiniest, darlingest homage to classical puppetry you’re likely to see without leaving Baltimore.”
- Cybele Pomeroy, Broadway World
"Partaking in an Alex and Olmsted show is being on vacation, walking down a sunny alley with the warm wind on your back, the sky a deep, deep blue. You come across a few street performers in dirty shoes that somehow make you laugh as hard as you ever have, the universe suddenly crystalizes, and you think: “O, something is happening.” In their latest offering, Happy Birthday, Mon Ami, up for just this weekend at Baltimore Theater Project, something is definitely happening, a thing that takes us to a France of dreams, one that, despite the cursive accents, is more American than anything else."
- The Bad Oracle, Medium
Broadway World:
“It is tiny, enchanting and exquisite, like a delicious handcrafted chocolate truffle in a gleaming box.”
- Cybele Pomeroy, Broadway World
“Happy Birthday, Mon Ami is a show for lovers, for puppet lovers, for accordion lovers and for those who love the idea of travel but not the exertion of actual travel. Transport yourself to Paree, er, Paris, with Alex and Olmsted and enjoy the tiniest, darlingest homage to classical puppetry you’re likely to see without leaving Baltimore.”
- Cybele Pomeroy, Broadway World
"Partaking in an Alex and Olmsted show is being on vacation, walking down a sunny alley with the warm wind on your back, the sky a deep, deep blue. You come across a few street performers in dirty shoes that somehow make you laugh as hard as you ever have, the universe suddenly crystalizes, and you think: “O, something is happening.” In their latest offering, Happy Birthday, Mon Ami, up for just this weekend at Baltimore Theater Project, something is definitely happening, a thing that takes us to a France of dreams, one that, despite the cursive accents, is more American than anything else."
- The Bad Oracle, Medium
AWARD:
Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant - 2024
Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant - 2024
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
Photo by Leah Huete.
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Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival (Chicago, IL) - 2026
Gaithersburg Arts Barn (Gaithersburg, MD) - 2025 The Cherry Arts (Ithaca, NY) - 2025 The National Theatre (Washington, D.C.) - 2024 Puppets Off Broad Street (Richmond, VA) - 2024 Baltimore Theatre Project (Baltimore, MD) - 2024 Black Cherry Puppet Theater (Baltimore, MD) - 2024 - World Premiere |
Original theater poster design by David Plunkert.
