How upbeat? The video for “Conceived,” the album’s first single, stars Orton alongside a cast of singing Muppet-like characters. How’d this happen? We phoned Orton to find out. How did you ...

I hope so, because that will make what I’m about to say next make much more sense: I watched The Great Muppet Caper on Disney+ recently and, hoo boy, was that an eye-opener for the grown-up ...

Maybe the issue is that the Muppets are too big to be confined to TV, as great as their original show was. Since making the leap to the big screen with 1979’s “The Muppet Movie,” Kermit and ...

One I came back to recently is The Great Muppet Caper. The 1981 film isn’t the best muppet movie – that would be 1979’s The Muppet Movie – but to my mind it’s the funniest and weirdest.

Pursued by angry dogs, over a dozen terrified Muppets scale a castle drainpipe near Caper’s climax ... about the size of a dresser drawer. Every Muppet handler involved with the scene had ...

However, for this writer, Dame Diana Rigg will always be The Great Muppet Caper‘s Lady Holiday. The haughty haute couture designer was — and still is — the most sophisticated woman I’ve ...