Joey McIntyre, Jonathan Knight, Jordan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood.
Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty ImagesThe New Kids on the Block go to Vegas.
On Thursday, September 19, the group — Jonathan Knight, Jordanian Knight, Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood And Joey McIntyre – announced their first-ever residency in Sin City. They will take the stage in 2025 at Park MGM’s Dolby Live theater from June 20 through July 5 and November 1 through November 15. The show will be called “The Right Stuff” in tribute to their 1988 hit single.
“We cherish every opportunity we get to perform for our fans, but a residency in Las Vegas gives us the opportunity to take our performance and interaction with our fans to the next level,” said 55-year-old Wahlberg in a statement. declaration.
He added that they aim to “create the most incredible NKOTB concert ever” and “create multiple events to connect directly with our fans. Las Vegas will never be the same after the New Kids and the Blockheads take over the city.”
Tickets officially go on sale Friday, September 27, but diehard fans will have the chance to score seats in the presale that starts on September 24.
The group emerged in the 1980s and rose to fame in the second half of the decade with their second album Remains tough. They broke up in 1994 and reunited in 2008, leaning entirely into their fandom’s nostalgic affection for the ex-boybanders from Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Earlier this year, they let go Still childrentheir eighth pop album and their first in 11 years. They also embarked on a summer tour with Paula Abdul And DJ Jazzy Jeff. While you’re talking to We weekly in March McIntyre, 51, flowed from Abdul, 62“She’s just the total music package, a complete entertainer, so that’s great. And then we had DJ Jazzy Jeff kick it off and get the party started. [Most] of these shows this summer are taking place outside, and it just has a different atmosphere.
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McIntyre talked about it too Still children and the first single ‘Kids’.
“Donnie and I co-wrote pretty much the entire album,” he said. “But this one song, [“Kids”]is from a writer and producer, Dave Stewartand it’s a great song.
He explained that the new song is a good summary of the band’s career. “It really says it all,” he said Us. “We’ve been lucky, the five of us, that in some ways we never grew up. And a lot of people look to us to get back to that happy place, and we give them permission to just have fun. We are that refuge and we will beat that drum forever and ever. And I think this song [“Kids”] is a new anthem for us.”