Pepper & Sam Launch Diversionary Cabaret 10/21

Dead from New York: It's Pepper & Sam! Reanimated brother and sister act, Pepper & Sam are coming to San Diego to launch Diversionary Theatre's new Cabaret Series on Friday October 21, 2011.

Billed as the ghosts with the most! The ghouls with the goods! The Apparitions from Prohibition - Pepper & Sam are back from the grave with a 90 minute rock n' roll-vaudeville review with a whole new outlook on life ... and death.

Virtuosic, rock n' roll-vaudevillians Pepper Mills & Play It Again Sam were touted in cities from Wichita to Schenectady before their tragic demise in a blazing theater fire. Stuck playing the purgatory circuit for over 80 years, these two lost souls have toured Heaven and tempted Hell, and now they're back from the grave with brand new bodies and decades of new material. Pepper & Sam will resuscitate classics by The Beatles, Cab Calloway, Elton John and Queen and breath new life into songs by Tupac Shakur, Green Day, No Doubt and much, much more.

Diversionary Executive Director John Alexander is "thrilled to launch our new cabaret series with the west coast premiere of Pepper & Sam, one of downtown NYC's hottest acts. Celebrating the cabaret form, we are proud to begin the integration of additional music, comedy, dance and burlesque programming into our seasons, providing patrons with cutting edge performances from San Diego and beyond."

Pepper and Sam are the creation of two New York based performer/authors Salty Brine and Justin Levine's mutual interest in finding ways for music and theater to collide on stage. Their work explores matters of life, death, existence, time, gender, sexuality and history, all while breaking down preconceived notions of theater, cabaret, the drag show and drag itself.

Justin Levine (Play-it-again Sam) works as a writer, composer, actor and musician in New York City and around the country. This past winter, he was Musical Director and performer in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson both at The Public Theater and on Broadway. Justin is the co-creator of "Pepper and Sam" with collaborator Salty Brine. Their most recent show, Death by Vaudeville has been performed all over the city, including the Summer in the Square mainstage at Union Square Park.

Salty Brine (Pepper Mills) is a New York City based writer and performer. He has been creating and performing Pepper and Sam shows with the astoundingly talented Mr. Justin Levine since 2005. Salty cut his teeth hosting the weekly rock 'n roll, gender-bending karaoke show at legendary Queens dive bar "The Albatross" and is a faculty member with Playwrights Horizons Theater School, NYU.

For tickets or information, call the Diversionary box office at 619.220.0097 or visit www.diversionary.org.

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