"Saturday's Voyeur 2010" at Salt Lake Acting Company will play an extra week, now extending through Sunday, Sept. 12, with four original cast members leaving the show and three new ones joining.

Since it opened June 30, the show has been seen by close to 12,000 people, and has been running at 86 per cent full houses.

When the decision to extend was made, the company hit one hitch; four cast members couldn't perform that extra week due to prior commitments. So three new actors have been cast, with one role covered by an actor who is already in the show, Steven Fehr.

The new actors, Dustin Bolt, Elise Groves and Austin Archer, all are students or recent Weber State University graduates. They've had a crash course in "Voyeur 2010," seeing the show repeatedly and in individual rehearsals with the director and choreographer, Cynthia Fleming, and dance captain and cast member, Shannon Musgrave. Meanwhile, stage manager, Jacob Johnson, has been filling them in on scene and costume changes.

Bolt, who was in last year's "Voyeur" as well as SLAC's children's musical last December, "Go, Dog. Go!," has seen the show seven times, while working on memorizing lines. He'll have two dance rehearsals plus one full run-through, before he's on stage for the first time on Thursday, Sept. 9.

Steven Fehr, who is an original cast member, has been understudying Kent Harrison Hayes' part, so he's familiar with the material. However, doubling up for the final week will be a fairly intricate undertaking. "The weird thing for me isn't playing Kent's role, but playing most of his part in addition to my own, and in some cases having another actor in the show say my lines while I'm doing Kent's role in scenes that we were both originally in," Fehr says. "I think that will feel a bit surreal."

Fehr says he's a little nervous about three new people being plugged into the show the night before the first official extension performance. "There is potential for something to go wrong, no matter how prepared any of us are," he said. "While that is one of the things that makes live theater interesting, one also hopes that there won't be any train wrecks. I anticipate and hope the audiences won't even be able to tell what changes have been made."

Co-executive producer Fleming said of the extension: "The last time "Voyeur" extended was 2008. And yes, we are completely thrilled. The building is filled with about 200 people each performance, having a great time."

Features writer Daisy Blake is a former Salt Lake Acting Company staffer. —

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What • Salt Lake Acting Company's annual musical satire extends its run until Sept. 12

When • Shows Wednesday-Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday-Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m.

Where • Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, Salt Lake City

Tickets • $39-$54, at 801-363-7522 or www.saltlakeactingcompany.org.