TimeOut: "Salty Brine: Bigmouth Strikes Again (The Smiths Show - London, Aug. 31 - Sep. 7)" (August 25, 2023)

Just what I'm sure we've all been waiting for! - a drag cabaret show based around The Queen is Dead x Frankenstein

Salty Brine: Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths Show - Soho Theatre

sohotheatre.com

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Press release:

Soho Theatre invites you to Salty Brine: Bigmouth Strikes Again – The Smiths Show. Don't miss this stunning night of musical mayhem by New York cult cabaret sensation Salty Brine. Making his UK debut, Salty ventures into the dark and disturbed as he twists Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein around The Smiths’ post-punk, indie classic The Queen is Dead.

Use code QUEENISDEAD
for £12 tickets (including fees)
All performances from Thu 31st Aug - Thu 7th Sep


BOOK HERE: https://sohotheatre.com/events/bigmouth-strikes-again-the-smiths-show/

New York’s cult cabaret sensation Salty Brine makes his London debut with a show from his iconic Living Record Collection series.

 

[goinghome]

Just what I'm sure we've all been waiting for! - a drag cabaret show based around The Queen is Dead x Frankenstein

Salty Brine: Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths Show - Soho Theatre

sohotheatre.com

Looks all right. Salty Brine introduces the project here -

Here's someone going to some trouble to identify William - https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/the-smiths/who-was-william-it-was-really-nothing-about/

And the link title only here takes the name of Morrissey -
https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2019/8/25/queer-biracial-singer-modern-day-morrissey#toggle-gdpr

 

[Rufusindigo]

Looks all right. Salty Brine introduces the project here -

Here's someone going to some trouble to identify William - https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/the-smiths/who-was-william-it-was-really-nothing-about/

And the link title only here takes the name of Morrissey -
https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2019/8/25/queer-biracial-singer-modern-day-morrissey#toggle-gdpr

I must admit - I will probably go and see it!

 

[Famous when dead]

Salty Brine: Bigmouth Strikes Again (The Smiths Show)

New York cabaret legend Salty Brine makes his London debut with an exploration of The Smiths’ The Queen is Dead.

Salty Brine: Bigmouth Strikes Again (The Smiths Show), Soho Theatre: cult cabaret star

New York cabaret legend Salty Brine makes his London debut with an exploration of The Smiths’ masterpiece The Queen is Dead

www.timeout.com

Brief article mentioning his upcoming performances: Aug. 31 - 16 Sept., 2023 at The Soho Theatre.
FWD.

 

[klaus]

looks wonderful! wish this was in LA

 

[Juan Dulces]

I've always thought 'Never Had No One Ever' had a kind of Happy Birthday, Mr. President sort of feel to it.

 

[bored]

This is the original Salty Brine

 

[goinghome]

At the moment, and as often happened before, The Smiths and Morrissey music are named influences for a spate of shows, including this one. Bookish Boy drew attention to another, with comedian Sian Davies. And also at the Edinburgh fringe festival is a play, Alone.

 

[Anonymous]

This is actually very good - if you are near to London go see: https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/...outh-strikes-again-frankenstein-b1104847.html

 

[Rufusindigo]

This is actually very good - if you are near to London go see: https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/...outh-strikes-again-frankenstein-b1104847.html

Saw it last week and it is good, although I found the musical theatre delivery of the Smiths songs grating after a while. But it is slick, clever and funny. What I didn't like was Salty Brine saying 'There's a monster in the room......and that monster is MORRISSEY!', then going on about how we all love Johnny Marr. I mean really? You create a whole show based around songs he co-wrote then slag him off for a cheap laugh? If it wasn't for Morrissey, you wouldn't have a show......

 

[goinghome]

The Guardian have a write-up about the show today, and also liked it:

A lifelong fan of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the New York cabaret star Salty Brine likes to use the title as a verb, he tells us. To Frankenstein something is to solder together disregarded old parts and make something new. “Shall we try it?” Bigmouth Strikes Again duly stitches Shelley’s novel, The Smiths’ album The Queen Is Dead, and episodes from Salty’s own biography into a creature whose life is weirdly but entirely its own.

The audacity of the undertaking is – as it was in Frankenstein – part of the thrill. If trad jukebox musicals can strain to fit lyrics to dramatic action, they’ve got nothing on this show, which must persuade us that Morrissey’s words and the plot of an 1818 gothic horror fit (disembodied) hand in glove. Brine pulls it off...

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2...h-strikes-again-review-soho-theatre-morrissey

More likes
https://everything-theatre.co.uk/20...h-strikes-again-the-smiths-show-soho-theatre/

https://www.chortle.co.uk/review/2023/09/06/54105/bigmouth_strikes_again:_the_smiths_show

https://www.westendbestfriend.co.uk...th-strikes-again-the-smiths-show-soho-theatre

 

[j*e*t]

The Guardian have a write-up about the show today, and also liked it:


https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2...h-strikes-again-review-soho-theatre-morrissey

I can't stand drag acts anyway, but the line in the review about him making his entrance 'swaddled in Arctic furs' would be almost enough to put me off going to see this! BTW, I just watched this video about Frankenstein and the illuminati and found it very interesting.

 

[NealCassidy]

Salty Brine: Bigmouth Strikes Again review – a self-made monster hit | Stage | The Guardian

The Smiths’ songs are transplanted on to the gothic horror of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – and it works

amp.theguardian.com