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Salty Brine : How Strange It Is

The Neutral Milk Hotel Show Mon 7 – Sat 19 Sep 26 90 minutes
Broadway World
Stage
British Theatre Guide
Wee Review
The Recs
Guardian
Scotsman
Theatre Cabaret LGBTQ+ Music
Soho Downstairs – Soho Age Recommendation: 14+ Running time: 90 minutes

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New York cabaret star Salty Brine returns to Soho 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.

‘Sheer joy.’
★★★★★ Stage

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

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’.

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

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Reviews

‘Brine’s exhaustive, intensely physical performance is a piece of total cabaret, and his ability to recontextualise an album is rapidly becoming legendary.'
Stage
‘One of today’s most powerful stage voices.’
Guardian
‘One of the best nights you’ll have at the Fringe this year … will stay with you for a lifetime.’
British Theatre Guide
‘Full of power and passion… You arrive expecting to hear an album, and leave feeling you have travelled somewhere completely different.’
North West End UK
‘The irrepressible Salty attacks every song with dramatic alacrity, performs with his whole body, communes with the audience and ends this 90-minute exultation sweat-drenched but far from spent.'
Scotsman
‘A show of pure magic … The existence of artists such as Salty Brine can make you believe again in the meaning of being alive.’
Wee Review
‘This might very well be the best show of this year’s festival.’
The Recs

Salty Brine

Creator and Performer

Creatives

Max Reuben

Director

Nate Weida

Arranger and Music Director

Eliza Dunhill

Trumpet

Eamon Goodman

Bass

Connor O’Sullivan

Guitar

Migdalia van der Hoven

Drums

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