The Muppet Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol, originally written in 1843. The story centers on a mean and selfish old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge.

who dies in the book after giving birth to her son, Fred. Steven Mackintosh and Robin Weaver play Scrooge’s nephew Fred, and his wife Clara. Since The Muppet Christmas Carol, Steven won a Bafta ...

I didn’t realize this until I read the book to my kids a few years ... The Muppets are still the Muppets. I loved this version of “A Christmas Carol” when I was a kid precisely because ...

But we realized by really embracing A Christmas Carol, and really ... came from long-time Muppets writer Jerry Juhl who was inspired by doing a re-read of the book. After he said to Henson ...

including The Muppet Christmas Carol. Scooter was originally introduced as the as the nephew of J.P. Grosse, who owned the theater the Muppets performed in. Originally portrayed as an antagonist ...

Madness. But The Muppet Christmas Carol is good year-round. It’s got the Muppets and a ridiculously committed Michael Caine doing a little jig — what more could you want from arguably the best ...

The Muppet Christmas Carol was first released on 11 December ... because the story and the book demanded that," says Henson. "That was good, because it stopped us talking about Miss Piggy as ...

Susana Polo is a senior entertainment writer at Polygon, specializing in pop culture and genre fare, with a primary expertise in comic books ... like The Muppet Christmas Carol?

If The Muppet Christmas Carol isn’t the best Christmas movie, it’s second behind Gremlins. But unless you owned the VHS, you haven’t seen the 1992 film in full. Gizmodo reports that ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is an image from an official clip for “The Muppet Christmas Carol” distributed by Disney.

Few tickets are left to the MSO's live performance along with "The Muppet Christmas Carol" (so grab yours now!) Plus, a "Muppet expert" weighs in on why the colorful, charismatic puppets remain ...