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    What to Expect From Backstreet Boys’ Sphere Residency: Dancing, Iconic Visuals & ‘Not a Bad Seat in the House’

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    Backstreet’s back — in Las Vegas, that is.
     
    The superstar boy band has a warm relationship with Sin City, having staged one of the templates for the modern residency (and just how it can catapult a band into a new era of their career) with its Larger Than Life residency at Planet Hollywood from 2017 to 2019. It became the fastest-selling Vegas residency in history, and in the time since, the Boys have released another album, DNA, and went on a supporting world tour. But conversations circled around them making a big Vegas residency return, with Planet Hollywood, the Park MGM and Caesars all in discussion as options.

    Then their manager Ron Laffitte mentioned an unforeseen opportunity: becoming the first pop act to perform at Sphere. “We were like, ‘Oh, s–t. Here we go!’” recalls AJ McLean recalls. Thus was born Into the Millennium, which kicks off at Sphere July 11 just as the group releases Millennium 2.0, a deluxe reissue of their seminal Millennium album.

    The quintet didn’t take its responsibility as the first pop act in the groundbreaking venue — which has thus far only hosted mostly-non-dancing rock stars and DJs — lightly. They brought on a collaborative all-star creative team, led by choreographers/stage directors Rich and Tone Talauega (better known simply as Rich + Tone) and director and producer Baz Halpin, a Vegas veteran whose production company, Silent House is the BSB show’s design studio. Rich+Tone started out as dancers with BSB at the 1998 Billboard Music Awards and have since become one of the most acclaimed commercial choreography teams in pop music, known for their work with Michael Jackson as well as years of tours now with BSB. Halpin, meanwhile, is a Sphere expert (he worked on the Eagles residency, among others) who happens to have also executive produced Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour film.

    Already, the Sphere residency looks like it could bear repeat Vegas results for BSB: what started as nine planned shows ratcheted up to 21. Before opening night, McLean, Rich + Tone and Halpin spoke to Billboard — and while they’re keeping the granular details of the show under wraps, they offered plenty of hints as to what fans and BSB newcomers alike can expect at their Sphere spectacular. 



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