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Heather Parrish as Patsy Cline and Billy W.H. Mason as her guitarist in "Always . . . Patsy Cline." They are also in the band June July, which resumes gigs after "Cline" closes Aug. 2. Photo by Mark Cornelison | Herald-Leader staff.

Wednesday performances are unheard of at Studio Players, but that is what Always . . . Patsy Cline has pushed the Bell Court troupe to do.

After opening night, the theater which regularly presents performances Friday through Sunday, added Thursday shows July 23 and 30. That still left Studio with a 15-page waiting list, so it added shows Wednesdays, July 22 and 29. Studio board member Bob Singleton said those will probably be the last added performances and the wait list is currently closed because it is still so long. The show adds to what has been a very successful 2009 for Studio, which has had sell-outs and added performances for its previous three shows this year starting with The Last of Mrs. Lincoln in February.

Folks who don’t get in to see Patsy might want to check out June July, the band fronted by Heather Parrish who plays Cline and has several members in the Patsy Cline band. The group’s next show is 9 p.m. Aug. 21 at Natasha’s Bistro and Bar, 112 Esplanade, and Parrish says they will be doing some Patsy Cline tunes in their upcoming sets. Admission is $6, and if you miss that one, June July bassist Ethan Hayen says the band is getting swamped with booking requests, so you’ll probably see them around.

Actors Guild of Lexington will reprise its production of Theresa Rebeck's "Bad Dates," a one-woman show starring Leslie Beatty, June 18-27 at the Downtown Arts Center. Photos by Rich Copley | LexGo.

The economic downtown hasn’t hurt some local theaters at the box office, lately.

This week, both Actors Guild of Lexington and the Lexington Children’s Theatre announced they are adding performances of their current productions because the originally scheduled dates are selling out. And Actors Guild will reprise its previous production, Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates, in June.

Lexington Children's Theatre's production of "How I Became a Pirate" features (clockwise from top) James Hamblin, Mark Funk, Nicole Floyd, Daniel Nation and Lew Bowling.

The additional shows actually continue a trend stretching back to earlier this year when Studio Players added a performance of its production of The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, which quickly sold out.

Lexington Children’s Theatre’s production of How I Became a Pirate has added a performance at 2 p.m. May 17. The only tickets left for its remaining scheduled performances are pay-what-you-can tickets for the 7 p.m. performance this Saturday, and those tickets are only available to walk-up patrons the night of the show.

Actors Guild of Lexington will add a performance to the world premier production of Silas House’s Long Time Travelling at 7:30 p.m. May 14. The play is selling quickly on the strength of good reviews and House’s popularity as a Kentucky-based author.

Bad Dates, a one-woman show starring Lexington actor Leslie Beatty,  was a hot ticket in March and April and will return to the Downtown Arts Center stage June 18-27. Showtime and ticket information is forthcoming.

Bad Dates is something of a stand-in on the summer calendar for Shakespeare at Equus Run, AGL’s outdoor production in Midway, which was cancelled this year due, in part, to the economy. The series had run two years, and Actors Guild officials hope to bring it back in future summers.