Alice Ripley with John McDaniel at Blue Strawberry

Tony-Award winner Alice Ripley and Grammy and Emmy Award Winner John McDaniel take us through their own musical journey. Alice sings the songs she made famous on Broadway, and John joins her as they share their stories from a lifetime spent on Broadway, and always in music.

Alice Ripley won the Tony Award for Best Actress In A Musical for creating Diana Goodman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera Next to Normal. Ms. Ripley made her Broadway debut in The Who's Tommy in 1992. Other Original Broadway Casts include Side Show (Best Actress In A Musical Tony nomination), Sunset Boulevard, American Psycho, The Rocky Horror Show, and James Joyce's The Dead. Film and Television: SUGAR!, Isn't It Delicious, Inventing Anna, Girlboss.

John McDaniel is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning Music Director, Composer, Director, Arranger, Orchestrator & Producer, and is an Artistic Director at the Tony Award winning Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.  Most recently, John arranged, orchestrated and was the Music Director for Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday Special on NBC, which won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Primetime Variety Special. John has collaborated with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Kristin  Chenoweth, Joel Grey, Betty Buckley, Bette Midler, Shirley Jones & Katy Perry and has guest conducted at 15 Symphony Orchestras across America, including 5 unique concerts with his hometown St. Louis Symphony. 

Tickets at Blue Strawberry are $30-$45. Doors open at 6pm for cocktail and dinner service (minimums apply) and showtime is at 7:30pm. To make reservations by phone, call (314) 256-1745. Blue Strawberry is located at 364 N. Boyle Ave. in St. Louis, MO.