Neutral Milk Cabaret, Butts, and More Performance Picks

February 7, 2018 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

WEDNESDAY

(image via Salty Brine’s Living Record Collection / Facebook)

How Strange It Is
Wednesday, February 7 at Pangea, 7:30 pm: $20 advance, $25 doors

You may have first caught wind of this show back in 2016, when it happened at small East Village venue the Red Room. Whether you did or not, Salty Brine’s cabaret that uniquely puts Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea in a WWII setting has been enjoying an encore run at nearby spot Pangea for the past few weeks. The show is part of his longtime “Living Record Collection” project, in which he performs notable albums in their entirety with a conceptual twist. Past endeavors have included a German cabaret Abbey Road, a Prohibition-era She’s So Unusual, and a sentimental, seafaring rendition of Joni Mitchell’s Blue. Tonight will be the last night of this particular creation, so don’t be a “fool” (ha ha, get it, because that is one of the song titles) and get over there. More →

Tags: bed stuy, Cabaret, Cloud City, comedy, East Village, National Sawdust, Pangea, readings, Salty Brine, sarah kinlaw, The Corners, The Flea, theater, tribeca, Williamsburg

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Performance Picks: Queen Cabaret, Comedy in a Well, Solo and Group Lovin’

April 6, 2016 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

WEDNESDAY

This One Night at the Opera
Continues every Wednesday through April 29 at The Red Room, 85 E 4th Street, East Village. 8pm (April 29 show at 7:30pm). Tickets are $20. More info here.
For over a year now, cabaret artist Salty Brine has undertaken what he calls his “Spectacular Living Record Collection,” where he takes a classic or beloved album (anywhere from Weezer to The Beatles) and performs it in full, giving it his own personal touch. This often includes delightful and surprising reinterpretations of songs, larger-than-life costumes, and storytelling interludes. After working in this style for so long, it’s only fitting Brine is taking on Queen’s harmonic behemoth A Night at the Opera, spinning it into a grand evening of theatrics and betrayal fittingly directed by opera director Jordan Fein.

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Tags: alice birch, Art + Culture, Cabaret, champagne jerry, chelsea, comedy, diana kolsky, East Village, justin sayre, la mama, murf meyer, neal medlyn, Philip Markle, queen, Salty Brine, soho rep, the annoyance theater, the red room, ucb chelsea

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This Week’s Theater: Prohibition-Era Cyndi Lauper, Masculine Bodies, Garden Plays

September 24, 2015 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

From Cyndi Lauper drag cabaret shows to garden romps, here’s this week’s local (and affordable) theater and performance.

(photo: Daniel Albanese)

WEDNESDAY
Cabaret artist Salty Brine continues his residency at The Red Room on East 4th Street with HE’S SO UNUSUAL, a dazzling evening of song and scene that places Cyndi Lauper’s debut album She’s So Unusual into a world of Prohibition and perfectly-coiffed pansies. No stranger to taking on entire albums in one evening, Brine’s past “Spectacular Living Record Collection Cabaret” shows have included Joni Mitchell’s Blue and the soundtrack to Dirty Dancing. There will be surprises, and there will definitely be impressive costumes.
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Tags: Adrienne Truscott, Arts+ Culture, community gardens, Jack Ferver, New Musuem, Panoply Performance Laboratory, performance art, Red Room, Salty Brine, The Creek and the Cave, The Motor Company, Theatre