"Let the clouds roll in, let the rain arrive, let the storm rage on, the sun will survive. And you don't have to be happy at all... to be happy you're alive."
Music
Alice Ripley and her band: www.myspace.com/RIPLEYtheband ----- N2N composer, Tom Kitt: www.myspace.com/tomkitt and www.myspace.com/highfidelitymusical ----- Michael Roth (composing, with Alice, "Landscape the Tar Roof Tree) at www.myspace.com/rothmusik (profile song here)
Movies
Alice Ripley in: Temptation; The Adulterer. ----- Anthony Rapp in Scaring the Fish (new); Rent; A Beautiful Mind; Twister; Six Degrees of Separation; Dazed and Confused; School Ties; Adventures in Babysitting. More Anthony at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710829/
Books
on bipolar disorder (manic depression): Unquiet Mind, Touched With Fire, Night Falls Fast, Exuberance (all by Kay Redfield Jamison, who is a psychiatrist and has bipolar disorder herself); Electroboy (Andy Behrman); Bipolar Trip in 4D (Lizzie Simon); Demystifying Bipolar Disorder (Lana Castle); Prozac Diary & Welcome to My Country (Lauren Slater - about depression & other challenges)
Heroes
the outsiders, the freaks, the misunderstood, the square pegs, the different drummers, and the next to normal
NextToNormal.org's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Hometown:
The Great White Way
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
NextToNormal.org new RIPLEY song (Alice Ripley's band), "Hard Fall" - http://lnk.ms/2yVVjPosted at 8:46 PM Oct 8 view more
About me: All the goods are over at HTTP://NEXTTONORMAL.ORG and the official site, HTTP://NEXTTONORMAL.COM -- all the pills in the bottles, all the climbing, all the falling, all the lights in the dark, and all the electricity in the shocks. http://nexttonormal.org is "Next to Normal, The Musical and the Mindset", a place to celebrate the incredible and incredibly important work of N2N. ........................................................................................................ What you'll find here on MySpace are more than 200 PHOTOS. About me? I'm Lisa K, just your average everyday happy N2N Freak, hopeless Alice Ripley groupie, writer, sign language interpreter, artist, photographer, and mental health activist. www.myspace.com/newlisonlife & BackWardPress.org ........................................................................................................
N2N: The Safe Space Heard Round the World™
N2N: Coming soon to a heart near you.™
Alice Ripley - a special msg for "Next to Normal" FANS!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfHPsB1hrO8 A quick shout out to all the N2N fans on the day that fans officially found out the news that N2N is going to Broadway! The quality isn't all that hot, but it's classic Alice: sweet + goof. The silly part was HER idea, I'd just like to say! (Feb. 17, 2009 by nexttonormal.org)
This is your LAST CHANCE to see NEXT TO NORMAL at ARENA STAGE! Don't miss it! Let's send it out with the bang that it deserves! MUST CLOSE JANUARY 18!
Tickets start at just $25 and if you are under 30, you can get tickets for $10! www. arenastage. org or call (202) 488-3300.
ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S 10 BEST SHOWS OF THE YEAR! ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S 10 BEST SHOWS OF THE YEAR!
“Next to Normal is a moving, blisteringly honest, and inordinately powerful new musical, sung with a wallop by a six-member cast that includes the astonishing Alice Ripley, and dexterously directed by Michael Greif of RENT fame. EDITOR’S PICK!” -- Peter Marks, The Washington Post
“Truly the go-to show of the winter season! 4 STARS” – Jayne Blanchard, The Washington Times
“Supercharged!” – Bob Mondello, City Paper
“Strikingly original, engrossing and satisfying!” – Brad Hathaway, Potomac Stages
“Go see Arena Stage’s stunning reworking of this Off-Broadway hit!" – Gary McMillan, DC Theatre Scene
“a brilliant musical with clever and lacerating lyrics” -- Susan Berlin, Talkin’ Broadway
“Next to Normal gives one hope for the American Musical. ” -- Tom Avila, Metro Weekly
“If you want to see Next to Normal, you better buys those tickets now…smart money says future shows will sell out fast. ” -- Nancy Dunham, DC Examiner
“Musical Next to Normal at Arena Stage is a must see!” -- Charles Shubow, Broadway World
Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay— Stay till the good old year, So long companion of our way, Shakes hands, and leaves us here.
Oh stay, oh stay, One little hour, and then away.
The year, whose hopes were high and strong, Has now no hopes to wake; Yet one hour more of jest and song For his familiar sake.
Oh stay, oh stay, One mirthful hour, and then away.
The kindly year, his liberal hands Have lavished all his store.
And shall we turn from where he stands, Because he gives no more? Oh stay, oh stay, One grateful hour, and then away.
Days brightly came and calmly went, While yet he was our guest; How cheerfully the week was spent! How sweet the seventh days rest! Oh stay, oh stay, One golden hour, and then away.
Dear friends were with us, some who sleep Beneath the coffin-lid: What pleasant memories we keep Of all they said and did! Oh stay, oh stay, One tender hour, and then away.
Even while we sing, he smiles his last, And leaves our sphere behind.
The good old year is with the past; Oh be the new as kind! Oh stay, oh stay, One parting strain, and then away.
The Washington Post calls Next to Normal "melodic, blisteringly honest, heart-melting, sensitively crafted, sung with a wallop, astonishing, potent, inordinately powerful, meticulously woven together, dexterously directed, unpredictable, utterly convincing, a marvel, anguished, captivating, stocked with beautiful songs, complex, and something you won’t soon forget. " [yes, all that in one review!]
charity auction going on NOW - 3 items autographed by Alice Ripley, including her "Everything's Fine" CD. One item also autographed by Emily Skinner ("Side Show").
