Lee Lue The Musical

In the mountains of 1960s Laos, a young village teacher picks up his chalk and puts it down forever. He will become a pilot instead—not because he was born to it, but because his people needed someone to rise.

Lee Lue the Musical is a work of historical fiction, inspired by the Secret War in Laos, and by one of the first pilots from Laos’ Hmong community drawn into it—a little-known chapter of the Vietnam era in which the United States partnered with Hmong forces in Laos, recruiting an ethnic minority into a conflict that was never truly theirs. Lee Lue flies mission after mission, guided by his love for Jou, his wife and the lone lighthouse in the darkness of war. And he flies knowing that each departure could be his last.