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The Living Record Collection and Soho Theatre presents

Salty Brine: How Strange It Is (The Neutral Milk Hotel Show)

Edinburgh Fringe Run Thu 6 – Sun 30 Aug 26 90 minutes
The Stage
North West End
List
Guardian
New York cabaret star Salty Brine returns with a new show filled with wit, spectacle and heart.

In How Strange It Is, Neutral Milk Hotel’s indie-rock triumph In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and Anne Frank’s stunning and candid The Diary of a Young Girl fuse with confessions from Salty’s adolescent longings in a genre-defying cabaret that will take your breath away.

Sparks fly, time bends, and the ghosts of our past return to us in this hilarious and devastating work from Salty’s acclaimed and expansive Living Record Collection.

Salty Brine is the creative force behind The Living Record Collection, a dazzling expedition into the heart of popular music that imagines track lists as blueprints for evenings of musical mayhem, creating the perfect cabaret experience for theatre-lovers.

‘Phenomenal cabaret’
The Stage

As Time Out New York puts it, ‘the outrageously talented Salty Brine takes classic pop albums—from Joni Mitchell’s Blue to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack—and weaves their songs into funny, perceptive tapestries of storytelling. The shows are highly addictive: Once you’ve been dunked into Brine, you’ll want to dive right back in’.

The List Festival Awards 2024 – Best Fringe Show Nominee.

Find out more about the Living Record Collection & contact the team via www.thesaltiestbrine.com

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Salty Brine

Creator and Performer

Max Reuben

Director

Nate Weida

Arranger and Music Director

Christopher Bowser

Scenic and Lighting Designer

Kate Fry

Costume Designer

Nicholas Hussong

Projection Designer

Richard Aufrichtig

Original arrangements

Alex Thrailkill

Additional arrangements

Rebecca Kushner

Developed in collaboration with

Renee Blinkwolt, Lucy Jackson & Kristy Bodall

Co-producers for the Living Record Collection

Praise for Salty’s previous work:

'Astounding'
The Stage
'Weird, uplifting, heartfelt'
North West End
‘There’s not a moment when he’s not in command of his stage’
The List
‘Brine is a true, old-fashioned star...magnetic energy in spades'
Fest
‘A storyteller in total command of voice, a cocked eyebrow and his audience’
The Guardian
‘Unexpected, fiendishly funny, poignant and full of love – do not miss this show’
West End Best Friend