And Afterwards, You Can Walk Across The Street And Hook Up With The Big-Ass Giraffe From Toys "R" Us

Tomorrow marks the arrival of Spotlight Live, a new Times Square restaurant/bar/wish-fulfillment center that allows patrons to re-create the experience of being a pop star:

With the motto "Eat. Drink. Be famous," the four-floor restaurant, on Broadway between 48th and 49th streets, boasts a large stage and private recording booths where diners can cut their own albums. Guests will be greeted by "paparazzi" that will snap their photos in the lobby. The pictures will be posted to the restaurant's intranet, accessed via flat-screen televisions on each table. Diners can vote for singers on the television screens, communicate with other tables and select their "stage names."

And just in case that's not a substitute for 15 minutes of fame, performances will also be broadcast on the Times Square Jumbotron, and friends and family outside New York can watch your moves on a Webcast. Also, Epic A&R talent scouts have been hired to visit the restaurant periodically.

But the pop-star simulation doesn't stop there! You'll also be able to experience the boredom of back-to-back-to-back phone interviews, the shame of reading about your bathroom habits on TMZ and the heartbreak of realizing that cocaine can't be FedExed to P.O. boxes. Live the dream!

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