Alice Ripley

On stage 11 productions, 29 years

1987	Les Miserables Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by Trevor Nunn & John Caird	6,680 perf.
1993	The Who\ St. James Theatre · Original · directed by Des McAnuff	899 perf.
1994	Sunset Boulevard Minskoff Theatre · Original · directed by Trevor Nunn Musical Staging: Bob Avian	977 perf.
1997	King David New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Mike Ockrent	6 perf.
1997	Side Show Theatre unknown · Original · directed by Robert Longbottom	91 perf.
2000	James Joyce's The Dead Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Seán Curran	120 perf.
2000	The Rocky Horror Show Circle In The Square Theatre · Revival · directed by Christopher Ashley	437 perf.
2001	Dreamgirls Ford Center For The Performing Arts · Revival · directed by Brenda Braxton	1 perf.
2005	Children and Art New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Lisa Shriver	1 perf.
2009	Next to Normal Booth Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Greif	733 perf.
2016	American Psycho Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre · Original · directed by Rupert Goold	54 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Timothy Shew	3 productions
Stephen Bogardus	3 productions
Kristen Behrendt	3 productions
Judy Kuhn	3 productions
Hugh Panaro	3 productions
Emily Skinner	3 productions
David Masenheimer	3 productions
Timothy Warmen	2 productions
Terrence Mann	2 productions
Susan Dawn Carson	2 productions
Stephen R. Buntrock	2 productions
Rosa Curry	2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership. A long-running company puts the same forty people together every night, but it is where one would start looking. 5 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on2 works

The Scottsboro Boys
The Visit

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In the literature8 passages

• ‘ Jarrod Emick, with his Dick Tracy jaw and boy scout demeanour, makes a terrific, four-square Brad, while Alice Ripley is funny and sexy at the same time, not an easy accomplishment,’ acknowledged Michael Kuchwara, drama critic for the Associated Press. ‘Both show their considerable musical-comedy training, delivering their numbers with…Still the Beast is Feeding_ 40 Years of Rocky Horror - Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden
• ‘ Alice Ripley as Janet stands out, not just for her delicious shuffle between coyness and lust, but also for the surprisingly seamless way in which she adapts her classically pure voice to the rude rhythms of the score,’ said Fintan O’Toole for the Daily News , while Variety ’s aforementioned Charles Isherwood described the actress herse…Still the Beast is Feeding_ 40 Years of Rocky Horror - Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden
• Thus, thanks mostly to the skilful performance of the actress, the fairly harmless – though undeniably erotic – action of Alice Ripley’s Janet boldly whipping off her bra, a mere heartbeat before a blackout completely obscured her inferred seduction of Rocky Horror, was absolutely in accordance with the spirit of the show’s innocently sub…Still the Beast is Feeding_ 40 Years of Rocky Horror - Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden
• ‘ I can complain that Alice Ripley’s topless nanosecond is demeaning and gratuitous,’ nitpicked the rather aptly-named Martin Denton in a short list of minor quibbles during his otherwise upbeat online review of the production for NYtheatre.com.Still the Beast is Feeding_ 40 Years of Rocky Horror - Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden
• And the media bombardment was just beginning. First, the theatre community unleashed its outrage. Alice Ripley, who won a Tony playing Jenn Damiano’s mother in Next to Normal, tweeted, “Does someone have to die?” And original Rent cast member Adam Pascal posted on Facebook that “they should put Julie Taymor in jail for assault!”Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger
• The musical was revived by Encores! at City Center on March 26, 1998, for five performances; the cast included Burke Moses (Li’l Abner), Alice Ripley (Daisy Mae), Dick Latessa (Pappy Yokum), Dana Ivey (Mammy Yokum), Lea DeLaria (Marryin’ Sam), and, reprising her role from the original production, Julie Newmar as Stupefyin’ Jones. The musi…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz

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