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events company, A Sharp Production, recently did a Bar Mitzvah
with a Super Bowl theme. That, he said, is a theme that’s easy to
spend money on, depending on how authentic the people paying
for it want to get.

One place to start is with centerpieces. When a client gives the
go-ahead, Weitz said, A Sharp Productions will use real National
Football League helmets for their bases.

To give the event an additional air of authenticity, he said, each
guest can be given an actual NFL jersey and someone can be hired
to press the guest’s name and the number of his choice on it.

One recent Super Bowl-themed Bar Mitzvah, Weitz said, had a
30-by-50-foot image of the inside of a football stadium, “so every
time we took pictures, it looked like they were in a stadium.”
Other nice touches can include staffers dressed as referees;
goalposts with footballs suspended in the air above; a ticket booth
will a “will-call” sign where guests can pick up “tickets” resem-
bling Super Bowl tickets; an echo effect, so when guests are asked
to pick up “tickets,” it sounds like their names are being read by a
public-address announcer in an NFL stadium; an entrance lined
with women in realistic cheerleaders’ outfits or actual NFL cheer-
leaders who cheer each guest’s entrance; and carbon dioxide
cannons that blast fog when the Bar Mitzvah boy walks in.

“If it’s offseason, or it’s during a day that doesn’t require a
ballplayer to be in training, you can have an NFL player signing
autographs during the cocktail hour,” Weitz said.

If making a venue look like an NFL stadium isn’t enough for
you, you can hold your event in an actual NFL stadium.

One recent A Sharp Production Super Bowl-themed
Bar Mitzvah had a 30-by-50-foot image of the inside
of a football stadium, “so every time we took
pictures, it looked like they were in a stadium.”
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The Franklin Institute hosts Mitzvahs as well as
weddings. They can put images, including videos,
on the four 16-by-9-foot screens in the corners
of its Franklin Hall or project imagery on the
Fels Planetarium ceiling (below).

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Lincoln Financial Field offers a variety of spaces
and features, as does Citizens Bank Park, where
you can get tours of the dugout and clubhouse
areas, walk the bases during baseball season
and have your party crashed (possibly a little
too literally) by the Phillie Phanatic.

For the more culturally minded, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art handles a wide
range of events, offers catering by restaurateur
Stephen Starr’s STARR Events and provides tours
of whatever exhibitions it’s hosting at the time of
the event.

Jose Garces’ catering company handles events at the
Philadelphia Orchestra’s current home, the Kimmel Center, which
offers seven venues, including the rooftop atrium Hamilton
Garden; the Lounge, with its outdoor balcony overlooking Broad
Street; and the Academy of Music Ballroom.

And, of course, there’s the Franklin Institute, which hosts
Mitzvahs as well as weddings. DeGiovanni said one family that
held a Bar Mitzvah there had visited Israel and went with an
Israeli marketplace theme for the event’s cocktail hour.

“Instead of projecting stars, we projected imagery from Israel
[on the planetarium’s ceiling] to really give people the impression
that they were in a different place and time,” she said.

The institute also can put images, including videos, on the four
16-by-9-foot screens in the corners of its Franklin Hall.

For one Bar Mitzvah, DeGiovanni said, the family had a video
made to look like a Nike commercial that featured the Bar
Mitzvah boy playing tennis with his dog.

“It looked like a legitimate Nike commercial that had the dog
wearing the glasses and the special effects,” she said. l
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