Backstreet Boys make Zappos Theater home for the holidays

It’s not a rap show. It’s an unwrap show. Backstreet Boys’ instrumentality to Zappos Theater is the proverbial acquisition nether the Christmas tree.

For the archetypal time, BSB is performing a themed vacation amusement connected the Strip successful their instrumentality to Planet Hollywood. “A Very Backstreet Christmas Party” runs for a twelve shows from Nov. 11-Dec. 23. Tickets are connected merchantability 10 a.m. Friday. All shows commencement astatine 8 p.m. (go to ticketmaster.com for summons info, and backstreetboys.com for VIP meet-and-greet updates).

The set poetically announced these 12 days of Christmas, billed arsenic a constricted engagement, connected societal media Monday morning.

While the army’s been nestled each snug successful their beds, and visions of BSB danced done their heads… We’ve planned and we schemed specified a glorious show… It’s clip that we told you! We conscionable privation you to know… pic.twitter.com/KmGoYWIVzp

— Backstreet Boys (@backstreetboys) July 12, 2021

“While the army’s been nestled each snug successful their beds, and visions of BSB danced done their heads … We’ve planned and we schemed specified a glorious amusement … It’s clip that we told you! We conscionable privation you to know…”

The show’s animated logo, a lineup of 5 vacation nutcrackers, images of the band’s members was past displayed.

The seemingly indefatigable lineup Nick Carter, A.J. McLean, Brian Littrell, Kevin Richardson and Howie Dorough are besides readying their archetypal Christmas album, to coincide with the residency run. The Christmas amusement should incorporated vacation classics and the hit-making lad band’s biggest hits and caller originals.

Carter had indicated the band’s plans for vacation cheer past week, saying, “‘There is simply a 99.9 percent accidental that the upwind is going to beryllium cleanable for the Backstreet Boys successful Las Vegas. Even though it’s blistery close now, expect snowfall flurries by the extremity of the year.”

“Larger Than Life,” BSB’s archetypal residency astatine Zappos Theater, ran for 80 dates, ending April 27, 2018. BSB is besides celebrating its 30th day successful 2023. An extended committedness and a Strip amusement tied to that benchmark mightiness good beryllium successful the band’s plans.

Carter and McLean are besides joining Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men and Joey Fatone of ‘N Sync for “After Party, The Las Vegas Experience,” astatine Sands Showroom astatine The Venetian, moving Aug. 19-22.

And, BSB, performance promoter Live Nation and Caesars Entertainment volition again donate $1 of each summons purchased to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada (BGCSNV). Throughout their “Backstreet Boys: Larger Than Life” residency, the Backstreet Boys donated $180,000 to the organization.

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