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She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry - The New York Times
She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry - The New York Times

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# She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry

She breathes, coughs and mourns, and now the cow puppet that captured hearts in the Encores! “Into the Woods” revival is on Broadway.

“I really can’t explain fully why, but an audience just leans in and goes, ‘It’s real,’” said James Ortiz, who designed Milky White.Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times

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Once upon a time on Broadway, back in 1987, the skinny old “cow as white as milk” in the [new James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim musical](https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/06/theater/stage-into-the-woods-from-sondheim.html "") “Into the Woods” was played by a prop as still as a statue. The cow, Milky White, has no lines, so it worked.

Years went by, the fairy-tale mash-up musical [returned to Broadway](https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/01/theater/theater-review-sondheim-reprise-puts-music-ahead-of-the-journey.html "") in 2002, and this time Milky White was played by [an actor in a cow suit](https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/theater/theater-a-moo-moo-here-and-a-moo-moo-there.html ""). Now she could dance, and that worked, too.

Decades passed, and in the frenzied spring of 2022 came [a hit Encores! revival](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/theater/into-the-woods-review.html "") so delicious that it transferred almost instantly from New York City Center to Broadway. Now in previews at the St. James Theater, where it opens on July 10, this “ [Into the Woods](https://intothewoodsbway.com/ "")” presents Milky White as a puppet who breathes, coughs, moos and mourns — which works enchantingly.

Or as an enchantment? It is a mysterious thing, the preternatural dynamic between a puppet onstage and the people in the seats, even the grown-up ones.

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”We’re best friends,” the actor Kennedy Kanagawa said of the cow puppet that he brings to life in “Into the Woods.”Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times

We, the savvy spectators, know that the puppet isn’t what it pretends to be. We can plainly see, for example, that Milky White is not an actual cow, that her scrawny ribs are built of cardboard, that an agile actor — the Broadway newcomer Kennedy Kanagawa — is operating her. But we look right past the artifice and invest in the puppet. Whereupon it unlocks in us a less guarded, more primal sympathy than we might allow ourselves to feel for a human performer.

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