Last fall, Ms. Ripley kicked off the season at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. as Lydia Lansing in the world premiere of Ken Ludwig's screwball comedy Shakespeare in Hollywood. On Broadway, Alice has created the roles of a corseted Irish free spirit (Molly Ivors in the musical play James Joyce's The Dead), a bare-ish newlywed on the honeymoon from Hell (Janet Weiss in The Rocky Horror Show), a conjoined twin (Violet Hilton in the cult hit Side Show, for which she received both Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical), a hopeless romantic (Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard), a mad scientist (the Specialist's Assistant in The Who's Tommy), and the Bible's first loose woman (Bathsheba in King David), as well as having a long stay at the Imperial Theatre in Les Miserables as Fantine (dead by 8:45).

In 2002, Alice played to rave reviews and shoulder-to-shoulder audiences as Amy in the John F. Kennedy Center's production of Company as part the Center's landmark Sondheim Festival. Later that year, she played Emma in Andrew Lloyd Webber's one-woman tour-de-force Tell Me on a Sunday, also at the Kennedy Center. She was recently nominated for Helen Hayes Awards for both productions. Her one-season stint as a "Hee Haw" Honey (when TV's longest running country comedy show was revamped in 1991) has remained a buried treasure in the acting world, at least north of the Mason-Dixon line, until now. Her two most notable musical theatre recordings are Duets and Unsuspecting Hearts (Fynsworth Alley). Alice is a performing songwriter and a debut album of her own words and music, Everything's Fine (Sh-K-Boom), was released in 2001. A second album of original songs is currently in the works.