On New Year’s Eve in Canada, cities offer free public transportation. It’s a tradition. In certain parts of Mexico, when the clock strikes midnight, partiers eat 12 grapes and make a wish with each one. In Albania, at precisely midnight, people make perfectly timed phone calls to wish each other a prosperous new year.

Here in the North Bay . . . well, we do all kinds of things. Among them, it has become a certified tradition in the area for theater companies to wrap a New Year’s Eve party around a theatrical production, often kicking off a run of a new show with a debut on Dec. 31.

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