Alice Ripley's autograph
Alice Ripley's autograph
#1Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 12:38pmI'm thrilled that I got my N2N cast recording autographed last week...but am wondering...what did Alice write? It's a beautiful signature, but it's more of a graffiti like drawing than a signiture. Anyone have any clues?
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#2re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 12:44pmUm, how would we know what she wrote? Are we supposed to divine what it looks like? You didn't include a picture.
#4re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 12:51pmI'm sorry....but I don't have the c/d with me, but I certainly understand your question. I thought maybe other fans had gotten her to sign their c/d and found it to not appear like your standard autograph. I thought it was possible that someone close to the show knew the story and could shed some "light"...as it were. I thought that maybe she was signing in a way that was somehow influenced by Diana Goodman.
#5re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 1:18pm
I found this picture on eBay:
Weird.
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Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#6re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 1:41pm
"It's Ripley's ... believe it or not!"
TalkinLoud
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
#7re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 1:42pmWhen she signed my Playbill at the Stage Door, she signed ALICE R in big bubble letters, much like the picture TheActr97J just posted. I think it's neat!
NovaNurse7
Chorus Member Joined: 11/7/08
#8re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 1:59pmShe's started signing playbills and such in bubble letters. When my friend and I went to see Next to Normal, we asked her why she had decided to start signing things in bubble letters, she said that after years of signing playbills, she could barely read her own signature anymore and decided it was time for a change. She signs things in bubble letters to make her signature more legible. I personally think it's adorable! She's such a sweetheart.
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#9re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 2:00pmYeah, she does bubble letters now. Sometimes it's Alice R., sometimes it's Alice. Sometimes it's Ripley.
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#10re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 2:38pmWhen we asked her why she signed in bubble letters, she told us that it was so she could spend more time with each fan.
#11re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 2:57pmShe's crazy. Love her talent but woman is crazy.
#12re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 3:10pm
'When we asked her why she signed in bubble letters, she told us that it was so she could spend more time with each fan.'
That is so cute! Gotta love Alice.
heo1128
Broadway Star Joined: 7/9/08
#13re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 4:08pmHaha she is a tad crazy, but I love it. She signed mine "Alice.", period included. It makes me laugh.
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#14re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:16pm
I've got two friends who had window cards and were next to each other. They're now a matched set...one says Alice and the other says Ripley. LOL.
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#15re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:19pmShe also said she got bored of "scribble"--- it was really funny !!! But it WAS adorable when she said she uses the "bubble" letters to spend more time speaking with fans of the show.
#16re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:22pmthis kinda makes me want her to win the tony, which she probably will anyway.
#17re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:36pm
I personally love the way she signed my Playbill from 2nd Stage. That Playbill had those random peoples' legs dangling over a dock. She circled a pair of legs, and wrote the following underneath it: "THESE ARE NOT MY LEGS. A. RIPLEY."
Updated On: 5/19/09 at 06:36 PM
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#18re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 6:46pm
I have 2 playbills from Second Stage with her actual signature on them (the second one was not planned...Tom Kitt had come into the lobby and had signed it, then just passed it to Alice before I could say anything and it would have been awkward). Hee!
My windowcard from there has her signature (granted it's in blue sharpie on the blue section of the card, so it's not the easiest thing to see except for the extremes of the letters) and then bubble letters of "these are not my legs" because I asked her if I could bring it back for that and she laughed and said "of course!"
Hee!
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#19re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 8:40pmShe does art on the side as a hobby. Anyone else see the chair she painted for Jen?
heo1128
Broadway Star Joined: 7/9/08
#21re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 10:22pm
"Anyone else see the chair she painted for Jen?"
That chair is AWESOME. I want one.
#22re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/19/09 at 10:30pmHow is she crazy?
#23re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/20/09 at 12:52am
Alice is far from crazy...she's fierce! She is such a personable person, and truly loves about her fans. I love how she changes her signature every once and while. When I got her signature (about 2 yrs ago) she signed it A. Ripley and actually signed it to me. So that was nice.
I can't wait for her to take the Tony and to see what she wears!
#24re: Alice Ripley's autograph
Posted: 5/20/09 at 1:11pmI looked at the autograph yesterday when I got home and finally can see how it says RIPLEY...I think she's wonderful and can't wait for her to win the Tony Award. She was so nice at the c/d signing as well. After she signed her autograph, she looked up and said something very nice to me...something that I would have never expected a big star like her to say. I was so elated I almost fainted when I got outside!
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