From Side Show to Next to Normal: A Look Back at Alice Ripley on the Stage

Tony Award winner Alice Ripley celebrates her birthday December 14.

Ripley was part of the original cast of The Who’s Tommy on Broadway and played the original Betty Schaefer in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, starring Glenn Close. She won a Tony for her moving portrayal of Diana in Broadway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, and was nominated again for playing one half of the iconic Hilton twins in Side Show. She was last seen on Broadway in American Psycho.

Flip through photos of her stage career below:

Celebrating Tony Award Winner Alice Ripley

HR - Next to Normal (Broadway 2009) - Alice Ripley, Aaron Tveit, J Robert Spencer — Celebrating Tony Award Winner Alice Ripley

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Alice Ripley and Alan Campbell in the 1994 Broadway musical <i>Sunset Boulevard</i>. — Alice Ripley and Alan Campbell in *Sunset Boulevard* (Broadway, 1994)

Alice Ripley, Alan Campbell, Glenn Close, George Hearn and Vincent Tumeo during the Broadway opening night curtain call for <i>Sunset Boulevard</i>, November 17, 1994 — Alice Ripley, Alan Campbell, Glenn Close, George Hearn and Vincent Tumeo during the Broadway opening night curtain call for *Sunset Boulevard*, November 17, 1994

Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley in the 1997 Broadway musical <i>Side Show</i>. — Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley in the 1997 Broadway musical *Side Show*.

Emily Skinner, Alice Ripley and Hugh Panaro in the 1997 Broadway musical <i>Side Show</i> — Emily Skinner, Alice Ripley and Hugh Panaro in the 1997 Broadway musical *Side Show*

Alice Ripley and cast in the Broadway musical <i>Les Misérables</i>, 1998. — Alice Ripley and cast in the Broadway musical *Les Misérables*, 1998.

Fred Inkley and Alice Ripley in the Broadway musical <i>Les Misérables</i>, 1998. — Fred Inkley and Alice Ripley in the Broadway musical *Les Misérables*, 1998.

Alice Ripley in the Broadway musical <i>Les Misérables</i>, 1998. — Alice Ripley in the Broadway musical *Les Misérables*, 1998.

Blair Brown, Alice Ripley, John Kelly, Emily Skinner and Dashiell Eaves in the 1999 Playwrights Horizons production of <i>James Joyce's The Dead</i> — Blair Brown, Alice Ripley, John Kelly, Emily Skinner and Dashiell Eaves in the 1999 Playwrights Horizons production of *James Joyce's The Dead*

Joan Marcus

Alice Ripley and Jarrod Emick in the 2000 Broadway production of <i>The Rocky Horror Show</i> — Alice Ripley and Jarrod Emick in the 2000 Broadway production of *The Rocky Horror Show*

Alice Ripley in the 2000 Broadway production of <i>The Rocky Horror Show</i> — Alice Ripley in the 2000 Broadway production of *The Rocky Horror Show*

HR - Alice Ripley and Tom Hewitt in the 2000 Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show — Alice Ripley and Tom Hewitt in the 2000 Broadway production of *The Rocky Horror Show.*

Carol Rosegg

Alice Ripley in her dressing room backstage at the Broadway musical <i>The Rocky Horror Show</i>, January 2001 — Alice Ripley in her dressing room backstage at the Broadway musical *The Rocky Horror Show*, January 2001

Alice Ripley in the 2002 Kennedy Center production of <i>Company</i> — Alice Ripley in the 2002 Kennedy Center production of *Company*

LJ Benet, Aleks Pevec, Anna Schnaitter and Alice Ripley in the 2008 Los Angeles production of <i>The Who's Tommy</i>. — LJ Benet, Aleks Pevec, Anna Schnaitter and Alice Ripley in the 2008 Los Angeles production of *The Who's Tommy*.

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