Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley tonight at The Town Hall. (Just got back)

[LI Larry]

Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley tonight at The Town Hall. (Just got back)#0

Posted: 10/21/06 at 11:46pm

I just got back from seeing Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley in concert at The Town Hall as part of the 2nd Broadway Cabaret Festival. I decided to go at the last minute. I got my ticket this afternoon and got a seat in the loge all the way on the side but the view was great.

The concert was great. These two women work so well together.

Act 1:

Two's Company
Little Me
I'd Rather Wake Up By Myself (Emily)
Cigarette Dream (Alice)
Last Smoker in America (Alice)
Sleepy Man (Emily)
I Miss the Mountains (Alice)
No One is Alone (Emily)
Every Day a Little Death
Broadway Baby (Alice)
Sisters/Ohio

Act 2
Trouble
Poor Unfortunate Soul (Emily)
You Have to Be There (Alice)
Come Up And See Me Sometime (Emily)
Past My Prime
Lazy Afternoon (Emily)
She's Gone (Alice)
Who Will Love Me As I Am?
I Will Never Leave You

Emily did a great job on Poor Unfortunate Soul. I'm not sure if she played Ursula in the recent reading of "The Little Mermaid" but she would be great. Alice was funny with her comment when she came out at the end of the song "F***ing Amazing!!!" Emily really got the best applause of the night but Alice did great on the next song which was by the guys from Abba.

The whole concert was great. Emily told a story that she told a few weeks ago at Seth Rudestsky's book celebration at Ars Nova about coming back to Side Show after missing a few performances and they had a 20 second costume change but the understudy's costume was left for her and was way too small. The chorus boys did the opening like 5 times until the costumer got the right costume and then they rushed into place so quickly they didn't realize that they were in the wrong places. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal but when you are playing conjoined twins, it tends to be noticeable if you suddenly switch places.

The concert was recorded for a CD release which should be great.

Worth the last minute trip in.


Updated On: 10/21/06 at 11:46 PM

[theonlyone]

re: Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley tonight at The Town Hall. (Just got back)#1

Posted: 10/21/06 at 11:48pm

Emily actually sang the voice of Ursula on one of the Little Mermaid demos.

[SweMozArt]

re: Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley tonight at The Town Hall. (Just got back)#2

Posted: 10/21/06 at 11:51pm

I read about that concert and that they would sing a couple of songs from Björn and Bennys musical Kristina. What were the name of those songs?

[LI Larry]

re: Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley tonight at The Town Hall. (Just got back)#3

Posted: 10/21/06 at 11:57pm

I believe it was Emily's song, You Have to Be There.

[SweMozArt]

re: Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley tonight at The Town Hall. (Just got back)#4

Posted: 10/22/06 at 12:05am

Ah i think i know which song that is. It should be the song where Kristina is singing/praying to God about how important it is for her life that he exists (she has some doubts after all her hardships). I would have guessed that the title would be "You must exist".

[All_For_Laura]

re: Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley tonight at The Town Hall. (Just got back)#5

Posted: 10/22/06 at 12:07am

Alice sang that song. But, yeah, it was amazing. I had a spectacular time. Everything was incredible. Alice's Broadway Baby was spectacular! Afterwards, I met both and got tons of autographs, and I spoke to Alice for a while and....She was a copy of her band's brand new c.d. that has not yet been realized. Outtasite, in the whole press release kit and everything, and she only had one, and she gave it to me, cause I asked her to sign the first one and she was great! I will give more of a review and post pics tomorrow, but just WOW! what a night!

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

[Lady of the Talkies]

re: Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley tonight at The Town Hall. (Just got back)#6

Posted: 10/22/06 at 12:06pm

Outtasite *has* been released. You can purchase a copy through CD Baby, Pandora.com, or buy it on iTunes. I'm pretty sure you gotta get the press kit from Alice herself, though. The postcard is worth it in itself.

[All_For_Laura]

re: Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley tonight at The Town Hall. (Just got back)#7

Posted: 10/22/06 at 12:58pm

Well even if it has been released, I am proud to say that Alice hand-gave me her press kit of it! So

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...