Tony Award-winning singer and actress Alice Ripley and Grammy and Emmy Award-winning musical director and pianist John McDaniel will appear in concert on Monday, April 22 at 7:00 PM at Birdland Jazz Club. Ripley will sing the songs she made famous on Broadway, and McDaniel will join her on piano. The two will share their many stories from a lifetime spent in music.
Ripley received the Tony Award for “Best Actress in a Musical” for her performance as Diana Goodman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal. She 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. Her film and television credits include: Sugar!, Isn’t It Delicious, “Inventing Anna” and “Girlboss.”
McDaniel is a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning music director, composer, director, arranger, orchestrator and producer, and is an Artistic Director at the Tony Award-winning Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Most recently, he 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.” McDaniel has collaborated with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Kristin Chenoweth, Joel Grey, Betty Buckley, Bette Midler, Shirley Jones and Katy Perry, and has guest conducted fifteen Symphony Orchestras across America, including five unique concerts with his hometown St. Louis Symphony.
There is a $4o music charge and a $20 food and beverage minimum. For reservations, please call (212) 581-3080 or visit www.BirdlandJazz.com.
Birdland is located at 315 West 44th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) in Manhattan.
