Alice Ripley as Fantine?
Alice Ripley as Fantine?
#1Alice Ripley as Fantine?
Posted: 4/10/09 at 10:44amI see in her credits on broadway.come she has played fantine on tour and on broadway...anyone ever see in her in the role?
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#2re: Alice Ripley as Fantine?
Posted: 4/10/09 at 10:46am*Shudder*
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#2re: Alice Ripley as Fantine?
Posted: 4/10/09 at 11:20amI saw her when she went into the Broadway company after SIDE SHOW had closed. I am a HUGE Alice Ripley fan but she wasn't anything that special as Fantine. She was pretty typical in the role. I think that may have been more due to the fact that that show was run like a machine over the years, especially by the time Alice went into it, and everyone was treated more like a cog than an actor. Don't get me wrong, I love the show, but it sometimes lacked emotional punch throughout the years because of the assembly line style of production.
<-- Tevye, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, March 2018
#3re: Alice Ripley as Fantine?
Posted: 4/10/09 at 11:23amI saw her as Fantine (one of my first Broadway shows) and still have a souvenir program with pictures of her in character. I thought she was quite good, appropriately intense and moving. Of the dozen or so actresses I've seen in the role, I'd place her in the upper echelon.
"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
#5re: Alice Ripley as Fantine?
Posted: 4/10/09 at 12:33pm
I saw her on the tour in 93? I had no idea who she was at the time but I was impressed enough with her to get her to sign my program - and never forgot her name. Her performance made me a huge fan. That was a good cast. And then ended up seeing her do the role several times on broadway.. like 1998-99ish? I thought she was fantastic. Les Mis sort of had its ins and outs over the years but that cast she was with was very good.
She does an incredible "I Dreamed a Dream". Very emotional.
Now what would you say if today I started over?
Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover
And I'll pretend like everything is already alright
And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight
#6re: Alice Ripley as Fantine?
Posted: 4/10/09 at 12:50pmI think Fantine would be one role very suited for her voice. I personally really like Alice Ripley's voice, but there are lots of roles that it really doesn't work for.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Barnaby151
Chorus Member Joined: 5/11/08
#7re: Alice Ripley as Fantine?
Posted: 4/10/09 at 1:16pmHer voice was AMAZING in side show and les mis but i can't believe how she sounds in N2N. She sounds like a caricature of her former self, what happened?
#8re: Alice Ripley as Fantine?
Posted: 4/13/09 at 1:12amsaw her many times. She was very gritty. She also was one of the few Fantine's I have seen that brought herself to tears during "I Dreamed a Dream." She was a quite movie and looked amazing!
#9re: Alice Ripley as Fantine?
Posted: 4/13/09 at 2:00am
I saw her in the 3rd national tour back in '94. Here are some pics from my souvenir brochure...
I remember liking her performance, though it has been so long, I've forgotten details.
Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.
#10re: Alice Ripley as Fantine?
Posted: 4/13/09 at 12:29pmI saw her as Mrs. Walker in "The Who's Tommy" twice and the Les Miz producers saw her and snatched her up to tour as Fantine. Next thing she is replacing Judy Kuhn for Sunset Blvd. She started on the fast track. So well deserved!