The Muppet Christmas Carol: with Meredith Braun

About this episode

Dominic Gerrard interviews Meredith Braun about her role in The Muppet Christmas Carol and her experiences in Les Miserables.

This Christmas Eve ... Dominic is joined by the inimitable Meredith Braun, who played Scrooge's love interest Belle - opposite Michael Caine (and Fozziwig!) - in Brian Henson's The Muppet Christmas Carol ... Meredith shares her memories of filming the role, whilst simultaneously playing Eponine in the iconic West End production of Les Miserables ... A special thank you to Tim Hutton at Stage Door Records for allowing the use of the recording of When Love is Gone from Meredith's 2017 alb...

People in this episode

Host: Dominic Gerrard

Guest: Meredith Braun

Topics covered

• Christmas
• film
• theater
• musical
• interview
• nostalgia

Keywords

• Muppet Christmas Carol
• Meredith Braun
• Dominic Gerrard
• Les Miserables
• Michael Caine
• Christmas Eve
• theater
• film

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stage Door Records

Books & works: The Muppet Christmas Carol, Les Miserables, When Love is Gone

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