ALICE RIPLEY....Period.

On my two hour road trip I also listened to Unsuspecting Hearts with Alice Ripley and Em Skinner.

Does anyone else have this cd??? If not, get your asses down to the music store, or log onto amazon.com NOW! hee hee

Alice belts notes that aren't humanly possible! And for all you out there that don't be;ive Alice can belt, this cd will SURELY change your mind.

"She's Gone" cut from Side Show, is Alice's tour-de-force, two minute, growl em, knock em, sock em, bang em up, belt fest with an INSANE, ridiculous ending that'll leave you wondering "what the hell just happened.?"

"Losing Track of time" is from Hunter Foster's Summer of 42 is Alice's soft and warm song that turns powerfully emotional to it's belting climax.

"Unsuspecting Hearts" from Carrie the Musical has Alice and Ems singing this exceptional song from a not so exceptional musical. Alice tackles the higher harmonies with dramtic force and belting intentsity.

"Solid Silver Platform Shoes" and "Last Duet" is Alice and Emily just belting andf tearing the stuff up for 4 minutes. Sounding like two belting, big, black divas from Dreamgirls!

If you also get a chance to hear Alice and Ems sing "Celebrate" from "Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens" you will indeed be blown away by how loud, and insanely powerful Alices' "Little" voice can actualy be!!

Alice IS my favorite belter, but I'm constantly being told she doesn't belt.

Any comments on this, these songs, or Alice not being a belter?

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Updated On: 8/16/03 at 01:34 PM

Who says Alice Ripley can't belt, and more importantly, why aren't they having their hearing checked?

IMHO, this woman is one of the best young female belters on B'way right now. She and Sutton Foster and Carolee Carmello. And maybe Marin Mazzie.

If I could belt Another Hundred People like Alice Ripley, I would be one happy dame.

Make it stop, PLEASE

I would so LOVE to hear her Meadowlark! Betty Buckley, of course, does it the best, but I also really liked Liz Callaway singing it.

Sorry, Al Dente. Is it safe to assume that you're not an Alice lover. :)

I wish I had the OCR of The Baker's Wife! I love Patti, and don't mind that her voice sometimes lacks subtlety. Love her dynamism.

If I am not mistaken, Liz Callaway's version of Meadowlark is on her On and Off Broadway CD...I haven't heard Susan Egan's yet.

BTW...are you divarobbie on ATC?

yeah...sorry if I'm wrong.

Divarobb is a friend of mine and I assure you, if he was posting right now, he'd be singing the praises of Emily, not Alice. But I digress.

I do love Alice to death, and have owned Unsuspecting Hearts since it was released, but a BLACK woman she is not. Emily is definitely a black woman trapped in a white girl's body, but Alice is as white as they come (not that that's a bad thing).

I enjoy Alice in Losing Track of Time... I think that's a great track. :)

And I also own Elegies...

Sorry, still not impressed by Alice's "big black woman belt." I'd much rather hear her sing something like "Losing Track of Time" any day. To be quite honest, I actually prefer Alice's original songs to her showtunes any day. That's just me, though. :) I'm really looking forward to her next CD!

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Oh, honey! Emily is SO a big fat black woman trapped in a white girl's body! She is the white Jennifer Holiday! LOL.

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She has three solos:


She's Gone (cut from Side Show)
Losing Track of Time (Summer of 42)
My White Knight (Music Man)


Emily also has three solos, and the rest of the tracks are duets. :) They don't have any solos on Duets.

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Alice also sings three duets on Emily's solo CD. :) "Ballyshannon" is a personal favorite. :)

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ok miss daiy hilton, you ARE correct, Ems IS the one who is a big blonde and beautiful black woman trapped inside the body of a white girl and will always be! ha ha , but what I'm saying about Alice's voice, although Ems is sensational, is that Alice's sound is so...unique. Don't get me wrong, Ems rocks my world, but I prefer Alice. Always have

The thing that amazes me the most about Alice is that she has a 100% diffrent voice on her solo CD (Everything's Fine). Thats probably why some might say she does not belt. Also, I think my favorite song is "Tunnel Of Love" when she says "I Want Mine....". It also has something to do with Emily, because I cought the New Years Eve show and saw an understudy for Emily, and really did not like it as much. She did not blend well with the understudy who's name escapes me but she was some skinny blonde.

With this thread's title I assumed Alice had signed for a revival of Carrie: The Musical.

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