In the mallee woodlands of New South Wales, Australia, pint-sized marsupials called red-tailed phascogales once thrived.

This makes a lot more sense.

In Wakka Wakka's award-winning puppet musical "Dead as a Dodo" — at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre this week — the humans might wear sequins, but they’re not the main characters.

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.