Alice Ripley Performs at Rainbow Bar & Grill in L.A., May 23

Tony Award-nominated Broadway/rock star Alice Ripley will perform a 30-minute acoustic duo set with her band RIPLEY at the Rainbow Bar and Grill (9015 W. Sunset Boulevard) in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 23rd at 9:30 PM.

As previously announced, as well, Ripley - a Tony-nominee for Side Show - will head to Bethesda, MD for an all-star concert of Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World at the Strathmore Center.  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 has released the album "Outtasite" (she also plays guitar on the album). "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.

"RIPLEY is a self-produced pop/rock band with a sound that downtown NYC audiences have dubbed 'Green Day in bed with Keely Smith,'" state press materials. "The band's influences - XTC, Elvis Costello, QUEEN - include eccentrics from rock's classic era, but RIPLEY's sound has a decidedly 21st century ring.  In 2001, Sh-K-Boom records released Ripley's critically acclaimed 'Everything's Fine' - with the newly sharpened edge of RIPLEY's latest digital offering, "Outtasite", the music rocks much harder and cuts the figure of an attention-getter with a killer voice.  Ripley sings with a growl and a lilt for survivors of Susan Faludi's 'Backlash' era – the daughters of the single mothers who wanted it all.  The result is a blazing trail which resembles that of Gwen Stefani's big sister who taught her everything she knows."

RIPLEY also features drummer Shannon Ford and keyboardist Christopher Schelling. 

There is a $7.00 cover for Ripley's show.  Visit www.rainbowbarandgrill.com for more information.

First photo - album cover for "Outtasite," photo by Alice Ripley; second photo by Kate Raudenbush (Christopher Schelling, Alice Ripley and Shannon Ford)