Alice is on Fire
Alice is on Fire
#1Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 2:59pmI'm a huge Next to Normal fan...and I have loved Alice Ripley's performance as Diana each of the 10 times I have seen her. But please, guys...can't you think of another way of saying that she gave a great performance? The on fire bit is just overused.
#3Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 3:09pm
Why don't you give us some suggestions?
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#4Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 3:13pm
What about "Alice Ripley was as good as the Peppermint Twist tonight"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAy392PU5Tc&feature=related
#5Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 3:14pm
I might say that her performance moved me like no other I'd ever seen, or that she totally inhabited the character.
It just seems lazy to write Alice was on fire, as usual...when everyone always says that.
#6Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 3:25pm
Well I think clearly we need some guidelines here.
For example, how many people can say "her performance moved me like no other" before that becomes lazy?
#5Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 3:35pm
NO, REALLY - SHE'S ON FIRE! CALL 911!!!
/meh. Got nuthin'.
#6Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 3:37pmSTOP, DROP AND ROLL, ALICE !!
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#7Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 3:42pmWhat the fudge is a caharacter?!! Is that anything like a chiropractor?
#8Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 3:52pmShe best not put anything flammable next to her head with all that crazy product that goes into her ADD Charlie Angels bob she's had going lately.
#9Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 3:55pm
Oops Marquise...a typo. Thanks for noting my bad. And, touche...your post was funny and creative.
I guess other things we could say would be (and I am just trying to be funny):
Alice ripped my heart out.
Alice was white hot.
Alice was the bomb.
Alice was a maniac, maniac on the floor.
Alice blew the roof off that sucker.
Alice was so good I exploded all over the Booth balcony.
Alice was money.
Alice was off the chain.
Alice was OVAH.
#11Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 4:04pm
"Alice was so good I exploded all over the Booth balcony"
So she's giving bj's in the balcony now? I thought that only happened at American Idiot.
#12Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 4:09pmGator - I am glad you enjoy the show, but 10 times??? That boarders on obsessive. Especially when there are 35 other shows running right now.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#13Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 4:20pm10 times is not obsessive. How do you know Gator hasn't seen other shows? I know of someone who saw Wicked over 200 times in LA. That's obsessive.
#14Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 4:21pmI think 10 is a pretty low number for the fangirls of this show.
#15Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 4:30pm
I've only gone this number of times because I take such joy in sharing it with my friends. Each time I've brought different friends with me. People from work, friends from DC...it gives me a lot of happiness to "give" this show to other people. Now, people who I have taken with me, want to share it with their friends, and so I keep going back. It also helps that it's on TDF.
Don't worry, I have my list of things that I plan to "get to" before Tony Award time.
Oh...and I prefer to be called either SuperFanBoy or the Invisible Fangirl.
#16Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 4:45pmYou don't like the saying yet you started a thread about lol
#17Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 5:30pmWell, they could at least say if she's a 5 or 6 alarm fire and if the firemen were hot or not.
#18Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 5:33pm
Gator - I am glad you enjoy the show, but 10 times??? That boarders on obsessive. Especially when there are 35 other shows running right now.
You obviously have never heard of Val(DefyGravity777).
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#20Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 7:14pmAlice is the Shiznet.
DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#21Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 7:51pm
"You obviously have never heard of Val(DefyGravity777)."
Wow I am talked about in a Next to Normal thread.
Well you obviously have never heard of Nick(adamgreer) then either. He has seen Next to Normal and Wicked A LOT more than me. I'd venture over 50 times for Next to Normal and close to 100 for Wicked.
If Alice is on fire someone should throw water on her.
#22Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 8:04pm
"Alice Ripley, Alice Ripley, Alice Ripley, Alice Ripley, Alice Ripley, Alice Ripley, Alice Ripley, Alice Ripley, Alice Ripley
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it"
#24Alice is on Fire
Posted: 4/25/10 at 9:43pm"Alice made dookie on the stage of the Booth, but it was during her Tony-winning performance, so it's cool!"
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