Salty Brine to Premiere New Cabaret Inspired by Modest Mouse at The Red Room

Salty Brine announces the premiere of a new cabaret, Good News, or Harry the Dog, 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. Good News, or Harry the Dog, inspired by Modest Mouse's hit album Good News for People Who Love Bad News, will run on July 13, 20 and 27 with an additional performances on Thursday, July 14 and Friday, July 29. On July 13, 14, 20 and 27 doors open at 7:30pm and shows begin at 8:00pm. On Friday, July 29, doors open at 7:00pm with the show beginning at 7:30pm.

Thousands of years into the future our current moment in time is all but forgotten save one precious alt-rock gem. Using Modest Mouse's acclaimed album Good News For People Who Love Bad News, Salty Brine brings you a haunting and hilarious mythology of what might come next in this month's epic edition of The Spectacular Living Record Collection Cabaret.

Good News, or Harry the Dog, created and performed by Salty Brine, is directed by Leslye Headland with arrangements by Matthew Marsh, dramaturgy by Anne Davison and costume design by Heather McDevitt-Barton. The show features performances by musicians Matthew Marsh and Ben Arons.

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, This One Night at the Opera and How Strange It Is.

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.

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