American - Actor | December 14, 1963 -
I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
Alice Ripley
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I didn't see any Broadway till I was in my late twenties.
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My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me make this real?' There's nothing like starting from scratch.
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Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in 'Side Show,' and I had a song together in 'Tommy,' and I understudied Mrs. Walker.
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Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.
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If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.
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I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.
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When the decades pass and you're working in this business, the audiences get older with you. That's the nice part about it. They're so supportive and so loving.
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I've always been drawn to raw material.
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Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
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I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.
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