Join us for a fabulous night of songs and conversation
featuring Tony-award winning musician/singer and acclaimed Broadway actress Alice Ripley!
When:
July 14th, 2018 @ 7:30PM
Tony Circle VIP supporters hour of conversation and more music with Alice Ripley: Begins ten minutes after the concert ends!
Where:
Tucson Jewish Community Center
3800 E River Rd, Tucson, AZ 85718
(520) 299-3000
About Alice Ripley:
Alice Ripley is a Tony-award winnning actress, musician, and Broadway performer. Her credits plays Kathleen, Sophia's mother, on the new Netflix half-hour comedy,#GIRLBOSS. #GIRLBOSS premiered in April 2017. Other television work includes Blue Bloods,Royal Pains, 30 Rock, and Hee Haw.
Ripley earned critical acclaim and won the Best Actress in a Musical Tony and Helen Hayes awards for her work as Diana in the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera, Next to Normal. Ripley received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for her work as conjoined twin Violet Hilton in the cult hit, Side Show. As part of the original Broadway casts, Ripley created the roles of Mrs. Bateman/Mrs. Wolfe in American Psycho, Janet in The Rocky Horror Show, Molly Ivors in James Joyce's The Dead, Bathsheba in King David, Betty Schaefer in the originalSunset Boulevard, and the Specialist's Assistant in The Who's Tommy. Ripley also had a long stay at the Imperial Theatre as Fantine in the original Les Misérables.
Ripley stars in the award-winning indie musical movie, SUGAR!, which played the 2016 festival circuit and recently gained distribution. Other film work includes Bear With Us, The Way I Remember It (starring Christine Ebersole), Muckland, Sing Along, Isn't It Delicious, and The Adulterer.
What:
This concert is a fundraising event for the Arizona House of Representatives campaign of Catherine Ripley.
Catherine is a Democrat seeking office in Legislative District 10. All funds raised will directly support Catherine's campaign.
ripleyforarizona.com
Catherine Ripley is a 2018 Candidate for Arizona State House, Legislative District (LD) 10 for the Democratic Party.
Catherine was raised in Wolf Point, Montana and graduated from Wolf Point High School. She was one of the first women accepted at Annapolis, graduating from the United States Naval Academy with a B.S. in Engineering and minor in Political Science. She graduated from the Navy Postgraduate School, Monterey, California with a master’s degree in National Security Affairs.
Catherine proudly served as a Naval Officer for twenty-six years in anti-submarine warfare during the Cold War and as a diplomat, serving at two different U.S. Embassies abroad for Defense Cooperation in The Hague, and for the Defense Intelligence Agency as the Defense Attaché in Madagascar. She was also the Executive Officer for one of the largest Navy ROTC programs in the country, in Boston, Massachusetts where she trained over 1600 midshipmen to receive degrees and commissions from Harvard University, MIT, Boston University, Tufts, and Northeastern University.
After retiring from the Navy, Catherine accepted an executive leadership position
at Raytheon in Tucson where she retired in 2015.
Catherine is currently an Adjunct Professor at Pima Community College, where she teaches political science, International Relations and the U.S. Constitution.
She has two grown children, Candace Ripley, age 29, and Alexander Ripley, age 28, and has lived and worked in southern Arizona for over 8 years.
Catherine’s international relations skills, combined with her diplomatic experiences abroad that made her successful in her multiple careers will serve her well in representing LD 10 in the Arizona State House.
