The Living Record Collection and Soho Theatre present
HOW STRANGE IT IS
(THE NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL SHOW)
Soho Theatre, Dean Street
Mon 7 – Sat 19 Sep 26 90 minutes
★★★★★ “Brine’s exhaustive, intensely physical performance is a piece of total cabaret.”
— THE STAGE
★★★★ “One of today’s most powerful stage voices.”
— THE GUARDIAN
★★★★ “A 90-minute exultation.”
— THE SCOTSMAN
★★★★★ “If the audience takes one thing away from this tremendous show, it is that one individual can illuminate an entire world.”
— BROADWAY WORLD
★★★★★ “A soaring and breathtakingly beautiful show. If you buy one theatre ticket this year, make sure it says ‘Salty Brine.”
— WEST END BEST FRIEND
★★★★★ “Nobody is doing this.”
— MICKEYJOTHEATRE
★★★★★ “An insight into a piece of modern musical art that will stay with you for a lifetime”
— BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
★★★★★ “You arrive expecting to hear an album and leave feeling you have travelled somewhere completely different.”
— NORTH WEST END
★★★★★ “Seeing Salty Brine makes life liveable.”
— DISRUPTING STAGES
★★★★★ “Can make you believe again in people and in the meaning of being alive.”
— THE WEE REVIEW
★★★★★ “This might very well be the best show of this year’s festival.”
— THE RECS
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.
‘Astounding’ ★★★★★ The 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’.
Created and Performed by Salty Brine
Directed by Max Reuben
Arrangements and Music Direction by Nate Weida
Scenic and Lighting Design by Christopher Bowser
Costume Design by Kate Fry
Projection Design by Nicholas Hussong
Original arrangements by Richard Aufrichtig
Additional arrangements by Alex Thrailkill
Developed in collaboration with Rebecca Kushner
Co-produced by Renee Blinkwolt, Lucy Jackson & Kristy Bodall