A 8-by-8-foot box will be deposited in Bryant Park later this week and it may have someone famous inside.
Starting Friday, New Yorkers can line up to meet a secret celebrity inside the Mylar-cover “Starbox” on Bryant Park’s fountain terrace.
The box (and all the hype surrounding it) is courtesy of art.party.theater.company, an artistic troupe that invaded Bryant Park last summer to play croquet and quote the park’s namesake, William Cullen Bryant.
While organizers promise there will be a real celeb inside the box, they won’t guarantee the caliber of said celebrity, which means it could be anyone from Justin Timberlake to Todd Bridges.
“We invite lots of speculation about who the celebrity will be,” said Artistic Director Mary Birnbaum, hinting, “It’s someone probably everybody knows and someone that probably everyone likes.”
The Starbox will be open from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. every Friday through Aug. 13.
If you check it out this week, be sure to let us know who’s there!
[photo: Glenwood NYC]
Ahh! But that is the catch. You have to sign a non-disclosure form in order for you to see who is inside the box. Once you know, you can’t tell. 😀 😀 Lol!
Well, I would never reveal my source. 🙂
Lmbo!! 😀 😀
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Just got back from this and all I am going to say about it is that if you like performance art then you will like this …..
no hints 🙂 just give a letter A-D list. 🙂
This star is list undefinable. 😀 😉
Okay I’m DYING to know who it was. Lee, can you tell us what field of work the person is in?
Ok. I am trying really hard to not spoil the surprise for anyone, while still trying to help people out, so I am trying to pick my wording very carefully and my wording (and what I don’t say) is what people should focus on, not their own expectations.
I said if you like performance art then you will like this piece. This really is a public performance art piece, as they are a theater company. The art piece is not solely about the star and the performers, but about us, the people waiting on line. One should not go there just for the star or else you might be disappointed.
Also a thing to know beforehand is that it strictly runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. so there is no guarantee that one will actually get inside the box if the line is long.
Just found this link. This is the performance this group put on in Bryant Park last year. If you are going to go to one of the StarBoxes then it would help if you remember the faces in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTCzH3Uz8u8
hate to break it to all you folks but its a hoax. There is no one in the box at all. Your the star !! Get it! they tell you its certainly someone you will know. and like .Well I hope you know and like yourself. I was dissappointing to stand there for three hours in the swelltering heat . They took 1 person at a time and spent three min. for each person . I would love to know what they said to people in the box that would warrrent them standing on line for hours in the heat. Iam glade I never made it in or I would have blown my top let alone the top of the box They made every one feel like fools Including kids No one under 15 permitted. I was also disappointed in the 20 different perfomences . as they were not groups of singers (bands) clowns, acrobatics. they were different people acting (poorly)out lines . Eg…a mother and daughter, 2 strangers, the agent etc.and you had to spot them. I know something was up when I saw no security( real police ) involved No celeb would want that kind of unsafe exposer. By the way if you say no..its illegal for them to search your personal belongings under false pretences (saying their security or worse Impersonating police. ILLEGAL !!! The money that it took to put this hoax together should have been put to better use like a summer project for kids in the cummunity. What a WASTE of MONEY and TIME!! especially for moms with stare struck teens looking to meet their idols. SHAME ON YOU art party theater.
Darn. I wasn’t trying to let the secret out because some people might actually like the surprise and I didn’t want to spoil it for them.
I was there too and it wasn’t that bad. Disappointing, yes, but not that bad. Yes, the performances were a bit over the top, but there were actually people next to me who thought the performers were real and they thought that some them were funny. I can totally get though why some people would get mad after waiting so long just to find out that there really wasn’t a “true” celebrity in the box. But it was a performance piece that is meant to be a commentary on the concept of celebrity. Heh, it got us to wait in the heat for that long. I just didn’t like it when it started to get windy and because of how they had the line wrapped so closely around the fountain water started to spray on us.
I still wonder if one of the following weeks, maybe the last one, if they will have a real surprise celebrity in the box, since by that time the word would have definitely escaped about the mirror in the box and they need to do something in order to keep the surprise aspect going.
What I didn’t understand was why they let people stay so long in the box so that not all the people waiting in line got to go into the box. That part did piss me off a bit and I didn’t at all like how the organizer/director (the woman in the brown dress) would not answer why they were not speeding up the people in the box. They should have moved people along quicker. That would have been the fair thing to do. But I guess they did that in order to get people to come back in the following weeks.
The other thing I wondered about was what they did with all the names they collected off of the non-disclosure forms. The forms didn’t look real, and I didn’t sign mine, but now they got a bunch of people’s names and email addresses. I guess they just wanted email addresses for their future performance announcements. Also I agree with you that I didn’t like it when they searched through people’s bags. I saw one female, blonde cop approach the security guards, but I was too far away at that point from the box (I was almost behind the fountain) to see her well and I couldn’t tell if she was real or not. Something about her didn’t look real though.
I knew some people were going to be pissed when they left, especially if they got caught in the thunderstorm that happened right at the end.
I meant to say, “I was trying to not let the secret out … “, not “I wasn’t trying to let the secret out …”.