(Pictured: Audience member A. Guzman, R. Trujillo, and L. Guerra.)

Textual Overture’s first annual Holiday Show was a great success! As usual, there were a variety of events, readings, play performances, and Christmas tunes performed on both nights – Friday the 19th and Saturday the 20th.   Both nights had slightly different acts as some performers/readers only presented one of the two nights.

On top of the plays, a classic Premature Punchline game (Penalty Hat, pictured) was performed as well! As shown in the picture, ex-Zero Untitled member Allan Guzman dropped by and joined in on the fun on the second day’s performance. Mr. Trujillo was “punished” in the game by being turned into Frosty by the audience with toilet paper.
A full show recap will be posted soon!

Just to catch everyone up: we have had a few meetings here and there to discuss our happenings for the summer and, as it turns out, we will begin with a Happening series!

What’s a Happening? It is an avant-garde theatrical performance / performance art medium that has a high level of improvisation (but not comedic). The idea is that the show will be performed differently every night.  We have our series already up and starting rehearsals soon.

Additionally, Premature Punchline will have some appearances in the Corpus comedy scene as well, so be on the lookout for that. In addition, we will be entering the Corpus Christi 7-Day Film Festival again, starting in July.

Also, our season is just about solidified so be on the lookout for that post.  Next up on the ZU calendar will be a Happening and a Textual Overture.

 There was standing room only at GATO Con for Premature Punchline’s two performances.  Here is a picture of the audience from the first performance.

And here is a picture of the group performing on the second day.

Premature Punchline, along with several guest performers from Zero Untitled, will perform at GATO Con this weekend at the Memorial Student Union Building. GATO Con is a Gaming, Anime, Trade, and Otaku convention, hence the acronym. Catch both of our shows!

Performance Times:

Saturday, Feb 22 – 3:00

Sunday, Feb 23 – noon

GATO Con will feature several special guest artists and performers, such as Robert Axelrod, famous voice actor for “The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”.  GATO con will also feature an Artist’s Alley, vendor boothing, celebrity signings, and several other events!

Zero Untitled has made some changes to our performance schedule: See below.

Zero Untitled’s resident comedy troupe, Premature Punchline, continues their Corpus Christi performances with a string of stops at Pinky’s Sports Bar (510 Chaparral St.) with performances on the dates listed below. Essentially, the troupe will perform every other Wednesday night at Pinky’s. 

In addition, the troupe will make a stop at Chuckles Comedy Club (615 Mesquite) for their open mic night on January 30 at 9:00.

Don’t miss these hilarious shows:

January 22 – 10:00 (Pinky’s)

January 30 – 9:00 (Chuckles)

January 31 – 9:00 (Chuckles)

As the end of our ten-year anniversary season draws to a close, we ended 2013 in two venues new to us. Our latest project, “Another Rated-R Christmas Show” opened at Pinky’s Sports Bar in Corpus Christi and had a second performance at the Innovation Lab in downtown Kingsville.

Here is a link to the page and an exclusive pic of what doing theatre during the Christmas season can do to one. Enjoy!

https://www.zerountitled.com/productions/another-rated-r-christmas-show/

 (pictured: Julio Martinez backstage at the end of rehearsal.)

 We have plenty of energy in us left!  We are currently booking Premature Punchline at various venues as well as mounting our next two Mainstage productions: the fifth Dark Tour called “The Factory” and our revival of Shakespeare’s  “The Rape of Lucrece” for the Shake38 Festival in St. Louis.

 In the meantime, have a happy holiday season from all of us in the Zero Untitled family!

In true Zero Untitled fashion, we have a handful of productions all coming up in a short amount of time.  Here is a quick run-down:

August 29 – Premature Punchline’s “Fishnado!”, Blue Room, 8:00

August 31 – Film premiere of “Eighty-Six Thousand Four Hundred Seconds” at CC7D, Harbor Playhouse, 4:00

September 6-7 – Don Nigro’s “Glamorgan”, Blue Room, 8:00

In addition to the above, be on the lookout for a promotional mime trailer for our in-house mime troupe, Forward MIMEntum, produced by Kingsville Now.  Also, the film “Eighty-Six Thousand Four Hundred Seconds” will have a trailer out very soon as well.  Likewise, the other mainstage production, “The Merchant of Venice” is in the rough-cut phase of editing and should be out in the next month or so.

For more information, visit the individual pages:

https://www.zerountitled.com/productions/fishnado

https://www.zerountitled.com/productions/eighty-six-thousand-four-hundred-seconds-coming-soon/

https://www.zerountitled.com/productions/glamorgan/ 

“Glamorgan” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

Here is a pic from our crowd at OmniCon right at the start of the show.  After about 5-10 minutes, several other people trickled in and we about filled up the first four to five rows!  Also, a pic of the cast and crew!

Cast and crew are (from left to right): Rebekah Ramos, Christina Saldivar, Katy Orozco, Debbie Gerd, Beth Cantu, Aaron Salinas, Heraclio Gonzalez, Jr, Michael Verderber, and Julio Martinez.

Here are three of the four prizes from our recent Premature Punchline performance at OmniCon!

We gave away a Pokemon keychain (thanks to a local vendor), a copy of The Witcher 2 for XBox 360 (thanks to Gamestop), an AUTOGRAPHED Wolverine print signed by artist Sam de la Rosa (given by the artist), and an autographed John DiMaggio coffee mug (thanks to the UTPA Cartoon Club).