RENT BOY AVE Extends Thru 8/22 At Boxcar Theatre

Boxcar Theatre's Rent Boy Ave.: A Fairy's Tale (www.boxcartheatre.org) extends for six more performances. Now closing August 22nd at the ensemble's South of Market venue: 505 Natoma Street, near 6th. Tickets are $24 - $34, with a special discount "First 15 at $15" for the first fifteen tickets sold for the extension dates. Tickets are on sale now through the website or by calling 1-800-838-3006. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 8pm. The company must close in order to prepare for their 3rd annual gala on Saturday August 28th.

"Rent Boy Ave. marks Boxcar Theatre's first venture into the world of musicals," said Co-Artistic Director Nick A. Olivero. "As the company is committed to continuing to surprising our audiences-and ourselves-it is only natural that a musical would make it onto our season roster. We're thrilled at the response."

The story follows David, a new kid to the street, and Mark, a veteran of male prostitution at the early age of seventeen. The two of them struggle to survive a nasty world littered with innocent looking old men with an indecent taboo sensibility, sharp pangs of irreconcilable hunger and a bible-thumping fishnet-wearing nun.

As a modern day Hansel and Gretel, they navigate their way through dangerous alleys and pal around with Jackie, a Little Red Riding Hood-like prostitute fighting a drug addiction to meth with a big bad wolf pimp who won't let her go. However, it doesn't take long for David to slip down the rabbit's hole and start selling drugs and eventually conspire with Jackie to kill her pimp. Mark, on the other hand, becomes engrossed by the fairy godmother nun, Sister Mercy, and escapes the embittered streets to a destiny unknown.