The Grove Theatre Company’s rights to present...

The Grove Theatre Company’s rights to present “A . My Name is Alice” in the spring have been withdrawn by playwright Joan Micklin Silver in favor of a spring production at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. The Grove production, at the Gem Theatre in Garden Grove, was to have been the play’s West Coast premiere.

“We’re a smaller theater” than the Globe, Thomas F. Bradac, artistic director of the Grove, said Wednesday. “They have more clout.” He said he understands that Silver, who has directed plays on Broadway as well as such films as the current “Crossing Delancey,” will be involved in the Globe production. Bradac said he has yet to decide what to substitute for the play, which would have opened May 12 as the final play of the Grove’s current season.

California Music Theatre’s holiday offering, “Babes in Toyland,” will move to the Orange County Performing Arts Center for nine performances Dec. 22-30 after its Dec. 10-18 run at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Robert Morse will play the role of the Toymaker. Director Toby Bluth plans to update Victor Herbert’s 1903 show with such additions as a skateboard for Little Boy Blue and a Mother Goose child dressed as a Ninja. The language will be “very now and ‘80s,” according to CMT artistic director Gary Davis. But most of the costumes will remain in period and anyway, Davis added, the show is “amazingly timeless.”

This will be the second CMT show to move on to the Orange County Center. Last summer both organizations, along with the Music Center Operating Company in Los Angeles, invested in a revival of “Strike Up the Band” and presented it at all three venues. This time, the Orange County Center is simply booking the show rather than investing in it. Other bookings prevented the Music Center from considering adding “Babes” to its schedule.

Performances at the Orange County Performing Arts Center will take place nightly at 7 except for Christmas Eve, when the performance will start at 1 p.m. Tickets, on sale Nov. 6, will be $17 to $34 with all seats half-price for children 12 and under accompanied by an adult. Information: (714) 556-ARTS.