No body does cool better than Donnie Wahlberg, with his working-class Boston feeling and ever-present hockey cap; but there he was on the opening night of New Kiddies on the Block's reunion Breitling Ladies Models gold watches tour working like an insecure lover.
"I can not hear you, Toronto. I really do not know who thinks better: you or me? I look great, too? Toronto, how you feeling?" queried the quintet's spokesman, again and again through the first 50% of the concert.
Asked every which way but straight on, what he really wished to know from the market was: Can you still love us? Did we do good? Have you been getting your $39.50-$75 worth?
Yes. Yes. A resounding yes!
After a 14-year hiatus, the children are in great type, straddling the line involving Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso Grande Date watches for men the puppy love pushers they used be, and the darn near 40-year-old-men they've become.
The two-hour show was more sedate than their raunchy new album, The Block, augured. There was no running on the four female dancers; only one choreographed crotch grab; and Joey McIntyre didn't seem to understand what to do with the black bra that was cast at him (he threw it back in the group ).
As well because the crowd, brimming with 20- to 40-year-old women, also included numerous preteen daughters and daughters they brought along.
"All you young girls that spent my youth to be good young women. Woo! You look good, too," was Wahlberg's classy recommendation of his heartthrob past and present.
The collection took the stage following a fair half-hour set by U.K. singer Natasha Bedingfield and forgoing clichAd memory lane video footage in favour of clichAd strolling through backstage hallways video footage.
They rose from under the stage clad in every dark with hints of green performing "Single," one of the greater monitors from The Block,
and revealing slick choreography, with lots of slow-mo and hip-hop accents. Throughout the night they alternated new songs with older visitors such as "My Favourite Girl" and "You Got It (The Best Stuff )."
McIntyre and Jordan Knight's falsettos are ever compelling; as is Wahlberg's tenor and poems. Jonathan Knight offered amazing backup and Wood did a truly nice breakdance schedule.
They performed on an extra two-level stage, with the musicians partly hidden.
One disadvantage of the present had to accomplish with staging: why weren't the performers or musicians utilized between sectors in place of leaving the stage dark and silent for greater than a minute during transitions?
On the IWC Portofino online watches upside was an interesting moment when the party made their method to the floor chairs and performed a number of tracks on a circular revolving stage with McIntyre and Jordan Knight taking turns on piano.
Yet another faux pas was the solo showcases by Knight, McIntyre Wahlberg toward the end. There have been some cheers, but that has been only Canadian charity and alcohol.
Wahlberg has said it himself: the magic of NKOTB is in the party. That is what sold over 71 million records and that's why there are enough followers in Toronto for another Air Canada Centre present today and one on Sunday.
They must stick to what they do best.