AUSTIN RATS! World Premiere of Rob Nash's "Junior Blues"

[NashGay@aol.com]

Hey Austin RATS!  Come see the brand new "Junior Blues" (part iii of the holy 
cross qudrilogy) show!  Just did a week residency at Dartmouth with NYTheatre 
Workshop and Jeff Calhoun (where we worked on Freshamn and Sophomore for Off 
Bway run)!

Heard Ruth MaGraff lives in Austin now!  Email me, babe.  Let's do lunch!

-rob

VORTEX Repertory Company presents
JUNIOR BLUES
 (or "Junior Year Sucks, Too!")
A WORLD PREMIERE WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Written and performed by
Rob Nash
When:   August 27- September 19, 1999, 8:00 PM, Thursday - Sunday
Where:  The VORTEX (formerly "The Planet") 2307 Manor Rd. 
(Half a mile East of I-35 behind the blue Home Steam Cleaners building. Bus 
#20.)
Tickets:    (512) 454-TIXS, $8 Thur.- Sun.  $13 Fridays, $15 Saturdays.  
        General Admission.  Limited Seating.  Advanced purchase recommended.

It's 2013!  Do you know where your teenager is?!  The VORTEX Repertory 
company proudly presents the World Premiere of Rob Nash's hilarious one-man 
play, 
Junior Blues (or "Junior Year Sucks, Too!"), the third installment of the 
Holy Cross Quadrilogy!!!

In "Junior" the country is at war!  Johnny wants to avenge his brother 
Richard's death in the desert by enlisting Norman Normal's  to help build a 
bomb in an ill-conceived, half-baked act of civil disobedience.  Ben meets 
rock idol, Sick Blood, in an online 3-D holographic chat room and becomes 
another ship, passed in the night, in a head on crash course with heartache.  
George, his dad and his step-mother to be, Julie Rose, are thrown into family 
chaos when a visitor from Mr. Daly's past shows up at the wedding.  And the 
cool teacher Mr. Smith, tries to sell a high school hijinks script to 
Hollywood.

In each installment of the "Holy Cross Quadrilogy" the characters only age 
one year while the time context around them changes significantly. "Freshman 
Year Sucks!" was set in 1981, "Sophomore Slump" in 1992, "Junior Blues" in 
2013 (and part IV, "Senioritis" will be set in 1954).  It's theatre. We can 
do this. "In high school, we all want to be unique and still belong.  By 
skipping around in time, I hope to show the timelessness of high school rites 
of passage and the universal desire for individuality and community." says 
Nash.

Not standup, not monologue, not performance art, Nash describes his work as 
"serial ensemble theatre performed solo."  His previous works include "12 
Steps To A More Dysfunctional You," "12 Steps To A More Dysfunctional 
Christmas" and "12 Steps To A More Dysfunctional Family," which have enjoyed 
sold out houses and critically acclaimed runs across the country.  Nash has 
also been seen on VH1 "Stand-up Spotlight with Rosie O'Donnell" and Comedy 
Central's "Out There in Hollywood."

This production will mark the third World Premiere of Nash's work, produced 
by  The VORTEX.