On Tuesday, we touched on the recent news that The Gilded Age is releasing a Christmas album, a decision which makes complete sense given that its cast is primarily composed of people with Tony Awards for excellence in (often musical) theatre. Naturally, as I laid awake in the middle of the night, I started ruminating about whether or not other TV shows have produced similar efforts. (An improvement over other things about which I generally ruminate in the middle of the night.) This was hard as hell to Google, because Google kept giving me news about The Gilded Age, but I am a woman who once spent an entire day in the UCLA microfiche lab reading old pieces from The Guardian about Ralph Fiennes, and I prevailed.
Now, obviously, I’m not talking about Christmas albums from, say, Sesame Street or The Muppets. The Muppets are the stars of a variety show AND of a Christmas movie, so of course they have a Christmas album, and whoever decided that The Count needed to perform “All I Want For Ch…