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Triboro Musical Theatre will partner with Wheaton College to present the musical comedy, "My Favorite Year" on Jan. 16 and 17 at Thacher School in Attleboro. Audtions will be held at Wheaton from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30 in the Woolley Room of Mary Lyon Hall. Any person 16 and older may audition; auditioneers will be taught something to sing from the show.

Wheaton is supporting the production financially and by opening the dorms early for students on winter break who may be cast in the show. Musical theater productions occur only once every four years at Wheaton, and this collaboration gives their students more opportunities to perform.

For more information visit www.triboromusicaltheatre.org.

Bay Colony Productions has announced its lineup for the 2009 season at the Orpheum on Foxboro Common. The season will open with the musical comedy "The Producers" (Jan. 30-Feb.-Feb. 8) then continue with the farce "Noises Off" (March 20-March 29). From there it will be the musical theatre classic "A Chorus Line" (May 1-May 10), a summer production of the rock opera "Hair" (Aug. 7-Aug. 16), and another collaboration with The Uncommon Theatre for a holiday showcase, "An Uncommon Christmas" (Nov. 27-Dec. 13). For ticket information, call the Box Office at 508-543-ARTS (2787) or visit www.orpheum.org.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre is adding a performance of Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" thanks to "vigorous" ticket sales. The performance will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29, at The Gamm, 172 Exchange St., Pawtucket. Tickets are $24-$39. "An Ideal Husband" runs through Dec. 7. (401-723-4266 or www.arttixri.com to purchase; www.gammtheatre.org for more info)

"Humbug!" an original musical production written, directed and produced by the Franklin Performing Arts Company, will debut at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13 and 14, at Mercer Auditorium, 224 Oak St., Franklin. "Humbug!" is described as a fresh new musical rendition of "A Christmas Carol" set in contemporary America and featuring many genres of music and choreography. For tickets call 508-528-8668.

Stage manager Tom Mercer recently announced plans for the New England Center for the Performing Arts, a new 65,000-square-foot facility to be developed on Route 140 in Franklin that will be home to the Franklin School for the Performing Arts and the Franklin Performing Arts Company.

"Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir," a play by Madeline Walter and directed by Community College of Rhode Island theater professor Bert Silverberg, will be performed by the CCRI Players, featuring an 11-member cast, at the Knight Campus in Warwick on Thursday, Dec. 4 through Sunday, Dec. 7.

The play tells the story of Mary Brigit, a 17-year-old from Ohio who decides to write her own memoir. Thinking her real life is dull and uninteresting, she decides to fictionalize her story by attempting to convince her Catholic family that she is in fact pregnant. On the advice of a parish teen crisis counselor, she then leaves home to spend the summer working and living among strangers on Long Island, one of whom is a young man who has no idea that he has been identified in Mary Brigit's memoir as the father of her imaginary child. The production has been entered in the Region 1 American College Theater Festival and is eligible for several awards.

For ticket reservations, call 825-2219. Tickets are $9 for the general public and $7 for CCRI faculty, staff and students.

The Fantastic Gamm Holiday Auction is open for bidding. The auction features unique experiences with and services by the very people that keep bringing you back to the theater - the artists themselves. The goal for the theater's first holiday auction is to raise money to support the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre's artistic and educational mission. To check out what's up for bid, go to gammtheatre@cmarket.org.