Sep 26, 2008 2:20 pm US/Eastern
'New Kids' Return To Boston Stage Friday
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The "New Kids" all grown up. From left to right, Joey McIntyre, Jonathan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight and Danny Wood.
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The 'New Kids' in the 80s.
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The screaming girls in the audience have been replaced by screaming women in their 20s and 30s, and the
New Kids on the Block have kids of their own. Fourteen years after the 80s boy band broke up, they are returning to the stage in Boston Friday night at the TD Banknorth Garden.
The New Kids released their new album earlier this year and the accompanying reunion tour started in Canada earlier this month. If the set lists from their first few concerts are any indication, longtime fans will hear plenty of their favorites like "The Right Stuff", "Please Don't Go Girl", and an encore of "Hangin' Tough" – along with an array of new songs.
Boston is where it all started for Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood. When the New Kids on the Block first came together in Boston back in 1984, the youngest band member, McIntyre, was barely 12 years-old. Now he's 35 with a new baby at home.
For many of the fans in audience Friday night, it will be about the nostalgia. But for the performers it's all about the music. Over the years they resisted many temptations to reunite, until they say, the music was right.
The New Kids on the Block have two Boston shows planned, Friday and Sunday nights – with a concert in Atlantic City in between.
In their heyday, the New Kids on the Block sold more than 70 million albums, including back-to-back number one albums: 1988's Hangin' Tough and 1990's Step By Step. They broke up in 1994 and announced their reunion back in the spring.
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