Next to Normal's Alice Ripley and her fellow Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason are featured in a new music video for the song 'Mastermind,' written by Aaron David Gleason, Joanna's son. Check it out below!
Directed by Jeremiah Kipp, the video also features appearances by Bill Weeden, Joanna Gleason, Aaron David Gleason, Chris Sarandon, Alice Ripley, Stacey Bone-Gleason, Ilaria Malvezzi, Chelsea Smith, and Dolores McDougal.
In addition to her Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for "Next to Normal," Alice Ripley also received the Helen Hayes Award as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations. As the conjoined twin sisters Daisy and Violet* Hilton who go from circus act to stage performers in the original Broadway cast of "Side Show," Alice and co-starEmily Skinner became the first two actresses to be co-nominated for a Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award. She has also starred on Broadway in "The Rocky Horror Show," "James Joyce's The Dead," "Sunset Boulevard," and "The Who's Tommy," as well as both on Broadway and the National tour of "LES MISERABLES."
On film, Alice Ripley has been featured in "The Adulterer," "Temptation," and the brand new film "Isn't It Delicious," and on television in Lifetime TV's "Modern Love." Her original Broadway cast recordings include "Next to Normal," "Little Fish," "Dreamgirls," "The Rocky Horror Show," "Side Show," "Disney's King David," and "The Who's Tommy." Other recordings include Skinner/Ripley: "Raw at Town Hall"with Side Show co-star Emily Skinner, "Sondheim: TheStephen Sondheim Album," "Elegies for Angels," "Punks and Raging Queens," "The Stephen Schwartz Album," "Duets," "Unsuspecting Hearts." With her band Ripley, featuring Alice on guitar and vocals., she has written and produced the albums "Everything's Fine" (2001, Sh-K-Boom Records/Gaslight), "Ripley EP" (2003), "Outtasite" (2006, Shellac), "Alice Ripley Daily Practice, Volume 1" (2011 Sh-K-Boom Records), and the brand new single this year, "Beautiful Eyes."
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