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Elsewhere in Tyre, some families waved yellow Hezbollah flags from their car windows and young men who appeared to be from the group’s civil defense force flashed peace signs and cheered at the passing cars.

“It’s such an important celebratory cheer, like our version of ‘hip hip hooray,’” added Cravalho.

“Yuletide Factory,” a circus show at the New Victory Theater, splits the difference, locating its cheer inside a sweatshop churning out seasonal doodads.

But the loudest cheer was still to come.

There was nothing in the space to cheer it up — no cards, no flowers.