The latest production, Remnant Memories: “Broken Wheels” & “Shattered”, finished its run. After two nights, Zero Untitled gained a new actor, along with the experience of producing student written, adapted, and directed shows. Zero Untitled’s main focus is to give students and performers a chance to have their work and their voice heard, and with these two shows, we gained a new director (Orozc0), two new dramatic actors (Cavazos and Frimpong), and a reappearance of long-time Zero Untitled affiliate (White).

Zero Untitled’s next productions this month:

     “Fate of Eights: Firebreathing Showcase”  Thursday the 29th at 9pm on University Blvd.

     Textual Overture (second show) Saturday March 31 at 3 pm at Blue Ribbon Cafe in Kingsville, TX.  

The next play, Acoustical, has begun rehearsals.

Due to several scheduling conflicts, “Domestic Insanity 2” will be postponed to a later date.  A rescheduled performance will be slated for summer or fall. 

Premature Punchline, ZU’s comedy troupe, has begun the writing and rehearsals for our performance at the video game, anime, and comic book convention GATO Con.  Like the Christmas show, they will theme their performance around technology, gaming, science fiction, Star Wars, and other nuances of “nerd” culture.  The show will feature several new PrePunchers such as Alex Casarez, Josh Cavazos and more!!

Here is a scene from a rehearsal:

Picture are PrePunch actors Luis Zaragosa, Caleb Bonitz, and Director Nicholas Zaragosa.

The forthcoming ZU show, “Textual Overture” is currently underway. 

Pictured is newcomer Felix Cruz III, Danny Cantu (“The Rape of Lucrece”, PrePunch), and Caleb Bonitz (“…Wonderland” series, “Twas the FLOP…”) rehearsing a scene for the comedy “Flight 1862.” This play will be for the March “T.O.” performance.

Rehearsal for another short piece, “GPS” starring Josh Cavazos (Mamet’s “A Life with No Joy In It”, “Relapse…”) and Ashley Hernandez (“Relapse…”) has also begun and will premiere in February.

“Textual Overture” dates have been announced: February 28 at Cafe 5 and March 31 at Blue Ribbon Cafe (both venues in Kingsville).

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A heartfelt thank you and happy New Year to all of our family, friends, actors, directors, cast, and crew!  Thanks to you, we had another record-setting attendance record year.  Our biggest success attendance-wise was “Relapse in Wonderland” which had a nightly attendance of rough 270+ folks braving the 40-minute long wait in line.  Similarly, Premature Punchline had over a dozen performances and had about 45 people attend each performance from July to December in Kingsville, Corpus Christi, South Padre Island, and Freer, TX.

But now is the time to look ahead to see what is up next!

[ ONGOING ]

TEXTUAL OVERTURE

“Textual Overture” will be a monthly series of play and monologue readings, poetry, experimental writing pieces, slam poetry, and even acoustic guitar jams at coffee shops in the Coastal Bend area.  For the first time, ZU is putting the audience in the performance spotlight.  Although much of “Textual…” will be scheduled, it will also contain an open-mic portion for any and all attendees to participate, read, or perform.

PREMATURE PUNCHLINE

The madcap chaos that is PrePunch will continue monthly shows in Kingsville and Corpus in 2012.  Expect new games, more skits, and standup.

[ STAGED PRODUCTIONS ]

DOMESTIC INSANITY STANDUP SHOWCASE 2

The first DISS was back in 2004 when ZU was first starting.  This year’s DISS will feature PrePunch’s Mark Pittman, Michael Mendez, Danny Cantu, and a slew of other standup comics. Coming mid-February.

REMNANT MEMORIES: ONE ACTS

“Remnant…” will be performance of 2-3 one act plays set for late March.

ACOUSTICAL

What happens when a depressed acoustic musician gets dumped by his girl (who leaves him for another girl)? Find out in April!

This is just a tentative list of what is in store.  There might be another happening (we can’t announce those), fire-breathing shows, and international performances!  Keep a close eye!

PrePunch’s first ever Holiday show was a huge success, breaking any previous Corpus attendance records by two-fold.  There was standing room only and, unfortunately, many folks left because they could not fit in the space!  For those who missed the show, we’ll be performing in Corpus Christi in the next few months, so stay tuned.

If you are sick of the holiday hoo-haw, then do NOT come to our Holiday-themed extravaganza show!  On December 30th at the Tango Tea Room in Corpus Christi, Premature Punchline will be having a holiday-themed show full of standup, skits, and improv games.  Some of the major holidays such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year’s will be the topic of the show.

This show will be FREE so bring the family for some holiday fun!

PrePunch’s Holiday Extravaganza

Tango Tea Room, 505 South Water Street

Corpus Christi

Las Vegas was recently invaded by Harvey the Mime and Zero Untitled on Black Friday.  Harvey visited several Vegas hotspots such as the New York-New York Hotel, Treasure Island, Mandalay Bay amongst others.  See show page for more info.

Premature Punchline had its final show for 2011, tentatively.  The final performance was at The Dusty Boot bar in Freer, Tx for PrePunch member Mark Pittman’s birthday party.  PrePunch will resume in January 2012 with a possible late December Christmas-themed show.  The comedy troupe is still available for bookings.  Here are some pics from the show.

Backstage photo: A. Perez applying makeup to The Dead Writer, actor J. Bulin.

The fictitious Wonderland Ward was forever shut down with the close of “Relapse in Wonderland”, a sequel to last year’s successful “Madness in Wonderland”.  This year’s production had an attendance of over 200 who braved the 40-long wait in line.

Backstage photo: A. Salinas as The White Queen, R. Ferguson as The Red Queen and S. Saenz as Lily.

Here’s what some people had to say:

“The play was fantastic, I really did get scared throughout the entire show.” – Desiree L.

“My heart was racing…” – Ana G.

“I will not look at Alice or any of the Wonderland characters the same anymore.  It is crazy how you changed a friendly “Alice in Wonderland” story and turn it into some crazy, dark, psycho.” – Jesse D.

ZU’s latest firebreathing venture, Se7en, was performed at the Fall Carnival on October 19, 2011.  The crew unveiled a new breather, Melissa “Cali” Nikirk, and longtime breather, Verderber successfully set his beard on fire!  Fun all around!

Firebreather #1 – Luis Zaragosa

Firebreather #2 – Melissa “Cali” Nikirk

Firebreather #3 – Michael Verderber