Alice Ripley's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs

In the record

Alice Ripley (born 1963 or 1964) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and mixed media artist. The birth-card coordinate for December 14 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2009 Best Actress in a Musical (Next to Normal) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 2009 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical — Next to Normal as Diana Goodman

The 4 of Clubs coordinate

Alice Ripley's birthday maps to the 4 of Clubs (The Systematic Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Alice Ripley. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You put knowledge into an order other people can actually use.

Live 4 of Clubs meaning page

Alice Ripley in the public record

She is best known for her work in Broadway musicals, including originating the role of Diana Goodman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, for which she won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Other notable Broadway credits include Violet Hilton in Side Show, Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard, and Janet Weiss in The Rocky Horror Show. She most recently played three roles in the short-lived Broadway musical, American Psycho. Alice Ripley has released albums with her band, RIPLEY, including the single, "Beautiful Eyes", released in February 2012. She also performs as a solo artist, while in February 2011 she released Alice Ripley Daily Practice, Volume 1, a stripped-down collection of acoustic rock covers. Ripley was born in California and graduated from West Carrollton High School outside of Dayton, Ohio. Ripley attended DePauw University, where she majored in Vocal Performance, before transferring to Kent State University where she received a BFA in Musical Theatre in 1985 and was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. While at University, Ripley performed in a number of stage productions, while her first paid acting job was at the Red Barn Summer Theatre in Frankfort, Indiana.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Alice Ripley (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 3 of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Alice Ripley, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue. You see what's wrong, what's broken, what's unfair. Your mind is naturally oriented toward problems and suffering. You're the truth-teller about darkness.

Ripley's regional credits include Clybourne Park at the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, as Bev/Kathy in May 2013; Next to Normal at Arena Stage (Helen Hayes Award, Best Actress in a Musical, non-resident production), Little Shop of Horrors, Tell Me On A

Paired on shared wording: long, tell.

Also on the record

1. Following college, she was active in community theatre in San Diego, California, and subsequently received her Actor's Equity card at the La Jolla Playhouse through a production of Silent Edward, a musical written by Des McAnuff, who was Artistic Director of the La Jolla Playhouse at the time and who would later direct Ripley in her Broadway debut in The Who's Tommy.
2. In her 1993 debut, Ripley played a Local Lass and the Specialist's Assistant in the original cast of The Who's Tommy; she also understudied the role of Mrs.
3. Walker.
4. Broadway roles that followed were Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard (1994), Bathsheba in King David (1997), Violet Hilton in Side Show (1997), Fantine in Les Misérables (1998), Molly Ivors in James Joyce's The Dead (2000), Janet Weiss in The Rocky Horror Show (2000), one of The Sweethearts in Dreamgirls, the concert (2001), and Diana Goodman in Next to Normal (2009).

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Donna McKechnie — 1976 Best Actress in a Musical (A Chorus Line)
• James Corden — 2012 Best Actor in a Play (One Man, Two Guvnors)
• Sean Hayes — 2023 Best Actor in a Play (Good Night, Oscar)

FAQ

What is Alice Ripley's birth card?

The 4 of Clubs. December 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Alice Ripley's dates come from?

Birth date 1963-12-14 is Wikidata P569 at day precision (CC0, Gregorian preferred). The Wikipedia person page had no day-precision birth template, so no Wikipedia day was invented. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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