Alice Ripley to Reprise Role in Arena's 'Next to Normal'

Alice Ripley,well known Tony Award-nominated actress for Side Show and Arena Stage's Shakespeare in Hollywood, joins the Arena Stage Next to Normal cast as Diana.  Alice is revising her role from the successful run at New York's Second Stage Theatre.

The play will run from November 21st, 2008 through January 18th, 2009 at Area Stage in Crystal City. To buy tickets call the Arena Stage Sales Office at (202) 488-3300 or visit www.arenastage.org.

"How does an almost average family navigate today's over-stimulated and over-medicated world?  In this darkly funny and haunting new musical, one suburban household confronts its past and its future.  With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score, Next to Normal explores how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their world intact," describe press notes

Alice Ripley recently starred in Blank Theatre Company's production of Michael John LaChiusa's musical Little Fish; the production opens October 2007 in Los Angeles. She also is the lead singer of her band RIPLEY. She received a Tony nod for her work as Violet Hilton in Side Show, recently appeared in an all-star concert of Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World at the Strathmore Center in Bethesda, MD.  She has also appeared on Broadway in The Rocky Horror Show, James Joyce's The Dead, King David, Sunset Boulevard, The Who's Tommy and Les Miserables.  She sings lead vocals and plays piano for RIPLEY, with whom she released "Outtasite" (she also plays guitar on the album) in December of 2006. "Everything's Fine," described as "a mix of pop, folk and jazz that showcases haunting lyrics in a song cycle of soft-core suburban hell," was her debut solo recording, and she has also teamed up with Side Show co-star Emily Skinner for the CDs "Duets," "Unsuspecting Hearts," and "Raw at Town Hall," recorded from their recent joint concert appearance.  Regionally, she has appeared in The Baker's Wife, Little Shop of Horrors, Carousel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - and at the Kennedy Center - Company and Tell Me on a Sunday.

Photo Credit Peter James Zielinski

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