Singing Superstars Paul Potts and Lance Bass Open Bloomingdale's Holiday Windows

Singing Superstars Paul Potts and Lance Bass Open Bloomingdale's Holiday Windows

Unveiling celebration to be hosted by Lance Bass, author of Out of Sync, currently starring in Hairspray with special musical performance by Paul Potts, winner of Britain's Got Talent

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 4:30 p.m.

NEW YORK, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Traffic slows to a crawl most days in front of Bloomingdale's flagship store and its famous Lexington Avenue windows, but on Monday, November 19, 2007 traffic will stop as the store unveils its annual animated Holiday Window displays.

Bloomingdale's window unveiling is a New York City tradition. This year's event, hosted by Lance Bass, currently starring on Broadway in Hairspray, will feature a performance by Paul Potts, who transformed himself from a mobile phone salesman to a rising star after winning the hit UK show Britain's Got Talent. Now, with over 30 million hits, the video of his soaring first audition is among the most-watched videos ever on You Tube.

Paul Potts will arrive at the event in the all-new Infiniti EX personal luxury crossover, available in December. Infiniti is the first automaker to be the title sponsor of Bloomingdale's Holiday window installations.

This celebration begins at 4:30 p.m. in front of the twelve-window stretch on Lexington Avenue between 59th and 60th Streets, which remains curtained until the conclusion of the event.

Bloomingdale's 2007 Windows -- Holiday Dreams
Celebrating the creativity and imagination of children during this magical
time of the year

This past summer, Bloomingdale's invited the Children's Museum of Manhattan and the Children's Museum of the Arts to participate in the 2007 Holiday Windows. Each museum's artists and educators worked with their own teams of 5-12 year olds to create paintings, collages and sculptures -- with the theme, Holiday Dreams. The amazing results are the inspiration for Bloomingdale's Window Display team.

Each window depicts an animated 3D version of a specific holiday dream or story based on the drawings, collages or animated films provided by the kids in conjunction with both museums. Plasma screens will run videos, created by imelt films, featuring interviews with the kids talking about their holiday dream and the creative process involved in creating the original art. The original art created by the kids will be presented in the windows as well.

Window stories include: The Purple Snowflake; Night of the Shooting Star; The Candy Robot with a Human Heart; The Silver Flower; Season's Change; Welcome to Our Winter Playground; The Golden Leaf; and White Blanket.

For more information on these children's museums, visit www.cmom.org and www.cmany.org

*4pm press check-in by stage on Lexington Avenue

Source: Bloomingdale's

CONTACT: Elizabeth Quarta, +1-212-705-2439,
elizabeth.quarta@bloomingdales.com, or Kelly Moro McKay, +1-212-705-2443,
kelly.mckay@bloomingdales.com, or David Ender, +1-212-705-3666,
david.ender@bloomingdales.com, all National Media Relations of Bloomingdale's

Web site:

http://www.bloomingdales.com/
http://www.cmom.org/
http://www.cmany.org/

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