Venue: Canadian Music Centre, 20 St. Joseph St.
Showtimes: July 2-6, 8-13 (various times, more info on Fringe site)
Eli Pasic is back this year, working through the existential exhaustion we’re all burdened with in 2025. He’s doing it with a piano, a microphone (that he makes very clear did not belong to Hitler), and his delightfully crass gallows humour.
Screamin’ in the Rain is a cabaret not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. Songs get into suicide, erectile dysfunction, and an inappropriate love of pets. None of Pasic’s language is politically correct, and with the exception of some musical snobbery about rap and imperfect rhymes (his most controversial stance, in my opinion), it’s balanced by his punching up, laterally, or making himself the target.
Pasic is not everyone’s cup of tea. But for those who enjoy Gilbert and Sullivan and Tom Lehrer mixed with a bit of debauchery and horror, this might just be the show for you.
