Am I the Only One

Something about Betty Buckley and Alice Ripley's voices are similar. They aren't quite pleasant, not quite unpleasant. They have this piercing quality, It's like cold electricity

I am NOT making fun of Alice or Betty's voice, But her intonations and vowels are not quite pleasant, BUT there is something striking and beautiful about them at the same time

I know what you mean about the 'piercing quality,' especially when she's belting, but I actually think Alice's voice is one of the prettiest I've heard when she's singing in head voice. I guess it's that Ripley and Buckley both have a higher-pitched sounding tone to their voices, which you don't normally hear in belters.

And the thing about sounding not quite pleasant, not quite unpleasant is exactly how I feel about when I listen to Patti LuPone, though, especially in Evita, but it's the opposite of 'piercing.'

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She is like Patti LuPone the voice is not angelic, but it is a good voice. I noticed that you said nothing about Betty Buckley being called "unpleasant yet pleasant at the same time" so go read your N2N playbill and fantasize about Aaron Tveit

Also Next to Normal has beaten the **** out of Alice vocal chords

I noticed the similarity when Broadway.com had that video of them recording NEXT TO NORMAL. Something about Alice Ripley in that video really does remind me of Betty Buckley.

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"Something about Betty Buckley and Alice Ripley's voices are similar. They aren't quite pleasant"

I agree a 100%

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