Salty Brine to Debut New Cabaret Inspired by Neutral Milk Hotel

Salty Brine announces the premiere of a new cabaret, How Strange It Is, as the latest installment in his series, Salty Brine's Spectacular Living Record Collection Cabaret. Salty Brine's Spectacular Living Record Collection Cabaret, which performs every Wednesday as part of Brine's residency at The Red Room (85 E. 4th St.), explores a different iconic album each month in a live cabaret setting. How Strange It Is, inspired by Neutral Milk Hotel's breakthrough album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, will run on June 8, 15, 22 and 29 with an additional performance on Friday, June 24. On Wednesdays (June 8, 15, 22, 29) doors open at 7:30pm and shows begin at 8:00pm. On Friday, June 24, doors open at 7:00pm with the show beginning at 7:30pm.

A synthetic flying machine rumbles overhead. Aluminum loudspeakers announce the date. Time shifts. And everyone becomes someone they used be. Salty Brine takes on the ghosts of World War II, embarrassing journal entries from days gone by, and Neutral Milk Hotel's indie rock triumph In The Aeroplane Over the Sea in this month's edition of The Spectacular Living Record Collection Cabaret.

How Strange It Is, created and performed by Salty Brine, is directed by Max Reuben with arrangements by Richard Aufrichtig, dramaturgy by Anne Davison and costume design by Heather McDevitt Barton. The show features performances by musicians Richard Aufrichtig and Alex Thrailkill.

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at www.thesaltiestbrine.com.

About Salty Brine's Spectacular Living Record Collection Cabaret

Shows every Wednesday night. A different album every month. This dazzling expedition into the heart of popular music, created and performed by cabaret artist Salty Brine, takes incredible albums and twists them in style and form until they are at once familiar and foreign, nostalgic and new. Imagining track lists as blueprints for evenings of musical mayhem, Salty brings you his Spectacular Living Record Collection Cabaret as part of a residency at downtown's swankiest speakeasy, The Red Room.

Past shows (all Time Out New York Critics' Picks) include Abbey Straße, I've Been to Sea Before, Second Hand News, Dark Side of the Rainbow, I Carried a Watermelon, He's So Unusual, Givin' Up Your Heart, I'm A Lot Like You, These Are the Contents of My Head, Thank U 4 a Funky Time and This One Night at the Opera.

Salty Brine is a New York-based actor, playwright, and cabaret artist that Time Out New York has called "the love child of a Paul Lynde, Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey in Cabaret threeway". NY Credits: Clown Bar (Pipeline, The Box), How Did I Get Here? (Bowery Arts & Science), Vera; Or The Nihilists (HERE), Shannon Foy (Bowery Arts & Science), The Poor Of New York (Connelly Theater), Backstage At Horror Drag (Animals, Incubator Arts Project), Thanksgiving! A! Pageant! (Ars Nova), The Infernal Machine (CSV Cultural Center), Straight Talk (Dixon Place), Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge (HERE), Oh The Horror! (Naked Angels). Regional: The Baltimore Waltz (Cape Rep), Dead From New York (Diversionary Theatre). He is co-creator (with Justin Levine) of the vaudeville duo Pepper 'n Sam (Ars Nova, Joe's Pub). Salty is currently a member of Pipeline Theatre Company's 2015 Playlab, a resident cabaret artist at The Red Room, and faculty, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, NYU.