#1
Posted: 2/13/10 at 6:31pm
Always Wondered -
Is That Alice Ripley On The Poster For FOLLIES (2001)?
#2
Posted: 2/13/10 at 6:45pm
No. It's an alien.
#4
Posted: 2/13/10 at 8:20pm
I can never tell if you're serious, Jordan, but I'm pretty sure it isn't. She had nothing to do with that production at all, and unless I'm mistaken, she was still in Rocky Horror at the time - not that that would preclude her from being on the window card, just that it would be an odd choice. My guess is that it was one of the "ghost" showgirls. She does look just a little like Wendy Waring.
#5
Posted: 2/13/10 at 8:21pm
I'm actually very serious. Yeah she was with Rocky and I knew she had nothing to do with the production but to me this looks just like her.
#6
Posted: 2/13/10 at 8:22pm
My guess is that it's just a drawing of no one.
#7
Posted: 2/13/10 at 8:24pm
Am I crazy? I think she could make a great Sally.
#8
Posted: 2/13/10 at 8:26pm
"Am I crazy? I think she could make a great Sally."
That's EXACTLY what Alice said about herself!!
That's EXACTLY what Alice said about herself!!
#9
Posted: 2/13/10 at 8:42pm
Phyl is probably correct, though it does seem like a altered photo of someone vaguely familiar - I'm just pretty sure it's not Alice. Why would they use her image when she was in another show at the same time?
Not sure if I'd buy her as Sally - they'd really have to dowdy her up.
Not sure if I'd buy her as Sally - they'd really have to dowdy her up.
#10
Posted: 2/13/10 at 8:51pm
Acting-wise, Alice would KILL as Sally. But she definitely couldn't sing it, given her current vocal state. (And Emily Skinner would make a brilliant Phyllis).
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#11
Posted: 2/13/10 at 8:53pm
Well given that Judith Ivey was able to sing it, I think Alice would be fine. Ivey didn't have the upper register for the score, but she managed to get the notes out.
#12
Posted: 2/13/10 at 8:54pm
But it DOES look like her, right?
#13
Posted: 2/13/10 at 9:59pm
Truth to tell, Jordan, I don't see the resemblance at all, but there's a lot going on there in that poster, so who knows?
Alice could definitely sing and act Sally, IMO.
Alice could definitely sing and act Sally, IMO.
#14
Posted: 2/13/10 at 10:55pm
I can see it vaguely because I'm looking for it, but I never would have seen it otherwise and it's still not a strong resemblance.
#15
Posted: 2/13/10 at 10:56pm
Well I see it and that's all that matters. :-p
#16
Posted: 2/14/10 at 9:37am
I'm pretty sure its Colleen Dunn
#17
Posted: 2/14/10 at 10:10am
Yeah. It's Colleen.
#18
Posted: 2/14/10 at 10:23am
Makes sense - she was the young Phyllis ghost.
#19
Posted: 2/14/10 at 10:54am
Emily Skinner would make a brilliant Phyllis?
Are you kidding?
F-A-T Emily Skinner?
Um, no.
Are you kidding?
F-A-T Emily Skinner?
Um, no.
#20
Posted: 2/14/10 at 11:35am
^ Emily has lost a lot of the weight. And, for that matter, there is nothing (that i remember) saying that Phyllis couldn't have put on weight.
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
#21
Posted: 2/14/10 at 11:39am
Emily Skinner looks AMAZING!
#22
Posted: 2/14/10 at 11:41am
Well given that Judith Ivey was able to sing it, I think Alice would be fine. Ivey didn't have the upper register for the score, but she managed to get the notes out.
You must not have seen the production. Ivey was a mess vocally, warbling and croaking through the score. She's a brilliant actress, but a Sally who cannot do the songs justice is no Sally at all.
And it's not even worth responding to Roslyn.
You must not have seen the production. Ivey was a mess vocally, warbling and croaking through the score. She's a brilliant actress, but a Sally who cannot do the songs justice is no Sally at all.
And it's not even worth responding to Roslyn.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 2/14/10 at 11:41 AM
#23
Posted: 2/14/10 at 12:30pm
No, I didn't see it. But I've heard multiple audios, and have seen several clips. I never said she sounded pleasant or even good. I said she managed to get the notes out, which she most certainly did.
#24
Posted: 2/14/10 at 12:34pm
I actually liked the Follies '01, but not one of the four older leads were singers, though I loved Blythe Danner, who was the least capable singer of all. Yes, Ivey was a mess vocally, but boy, did she bring the crazy.
Totally agree about the RR sockpuppet.
Totally agree about the RR sockpuppet.
#25
Posted: 2/14/10 at 12:37pm
The Roundabout Follies was a criminal act of aggression against a great piece of theater.
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