RIPLEY to Play L.A.; Alice Ripley to Star in Little Fish

"Outtasite," the new CD by Alice Ripley's self-titled band, is now available on iTunes and for purchase online at Amazon and CDBaby.  Tracks can be previewed by clicking on the following links - "Romeo" and WickedTorch.mp3%20">"Wicked Torch."

As previously announced, RIPLEY will play L.A.'s Rainbow Room, located at 9015 W. Sunset Boulevard, on Wednesday May 23rd at 9:30 PM.  There is a $7 cover for the 30-minute set.

In other news, the Tony Award-nominated actress will play Charlotte in the Blank Theatre Company's production of Michael John LaChiusa's musical Little Fish; the production opens this October in Los Angeles. New acoustic/RIPLEY band gigs will be forthcoming in the next week or so.

Ripley, who 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.

"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. 

Visit www.myspace.com/ripleytheband for more information.  Visit www.rainbowbarandgrill.com for reservations to see RIPLEY at the Rainbow Room.