The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio proudly
present an interview with actress Alice Ripley, on their weekly theatrical
interview show, "Downstage
Center," on XM's On
Broadway (XM Channel 28).
Ripley will appear as the special guest on Friday, February
29 at 6PM. The show will repeat on Saturday, March 1 at noon, Sunday, March 2
at 7PM, and Wednesday, March 5 at midnight.
The program becomes available as streaming audio and podcast from www.americantheatrewing.org beginning
Monday afternoon, March 3.
Alice Ripley, star of the new musical Next to Normal at New
York's Second Stage Theatre, talks about the
challenge of playing the emotionally disturbed mother of a "typical"
American family and describes how the show's music drives both the character
and her performance. She also talks
about her parallel career as a rock singer and songwriter, her Broadway debut
in The Who's Tommy, the remarkable
experience of appearing as one-half of the conjoined Hilton Sisters in Side Show, the unique style of James Joyce's
The Dead, and the difficulty of
playing a role while being doused by audience-wielded water guns in The Rocky Horror Show.
Each new "Downstage
Center" is regularly
broadcast at 6PM on Fridays, Saturdays at noon, Sundays at 7PM and Wednesdays
at 12AM. (all times EST). Following the initial run on XM, each program is made
available for free, on-demand, internationally as both streaming audio and
podcast on ATW's Web site, www.americantheatrewing.org.
