A special treat is coming to the Bravo cable TV station on Sunday night! Cirque du Soleil will be performing a show with puppets! It's Sunday at 6 PM or 7 PM. (Check your TV guide.)
http://www.bravotv.com/Cirque_du_Soleil:_Solstrom/episodes/puppets.shtm

A craftsman is bustling about his charming toy store on a snowy Christmas Eve in Salzburg. This imaginative and passionate man has only one ambition: that his small wooden puppet comes to life. In fact, he acts as if it were already the case. The back room of the shop is set up to celebrate the marionette's birthday. The puppet even has a birthday hat on his head! Crouched in a corner of the workshop, Venus, one of the giants from the show Mystere, is watching the scene and she decides to assist by blowing solar wind. The toys in the shop receive their share of the giant's solar spell, but the magic wind also spreads out in unexpected directions. Although she only intended to give life to the craftsman's wooden son, Venus gets much more than she bargained for.