> There are two Marleys in the Muppet Christmas Carol, because the best Muppet personality match to Jacob Marley is a set of two Muppet characters.
It also let them have the parental bonus of a character named Robert Marley.
> Rizzo the Rat can whip out his copy of the book and just read that passage to the audience.
The neat thing about that is that the book was basically meant as a read-aloud. Dicken's had a condensed version which he'd get up on stage and read to audiences in a dramatic way. (He'd failed as a professional actor, but definitely found another path to success!)
So I love that Gonzo reciting narration passages directly from the book is even more true to authorial intent in some ways.
It also let them have the parental bonus of a character named Robert Marley.
> Rizzo the Rat can whip out his copy of the book and just read that passage to the audience.
The neat thing about that is that the book was basically meant as a read-aloud. Dicken's had a condensed version which he'd get up on stage and read to audiences in a dramatic way. (He'd failed as a professional actor, but definitely found another path to success!)
So I love that Gonzo reciting narration passages directly from the book is even more true to authorial intent in some ways.