Guests will dance the night away to music by Every Other Sunday when the Franco Center rings in the New Year on Thursday, December 31.

On Thursday, December 31, the Franco Center will celebrate New Year’s Eve and ring in 2016 with a year-ending “Dinner, Dance, Drop and Draw!” After the doors and bar open for a fun and elegant evening at 7 p.m., a delicious buffet dinner, prepared and served by the Franco Center staff, will be served from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. After that, guests will dance to live music from across the decades, performed by nine-piece band Every Other Sunday.

Then, just before midnight, everyone will ascend to the center’s magnificent Performance Hall, with its own “balloon drop,” champagne toast and drawing of the evening’s New Year’s L/A prize, for the Times Square countdown to 2016 on the big screen.

Dinner will be French Onion Soup or House Salad and slow-roasted prime rib au jus or baked stuffed haddock au gratin. Either choice will be served with baked potato or rice pilaf and a seasonal vegetable medley. The dessert choices will be French apple tart with caramel sauce and peppermint stack cake.

Seating is limited, so early reservations are recommended. Tickets are $40 per person or $75 per couple, which covers everything, including entry into the grand prize drawing worth over $1,000. For tickets, drop by the box office at 46 Cedar Street, call 689-2000, or purchase them online at FrancoCenter.org.