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Pre-Show Jitters with your host, Chris Connelly

Connelly: How much money did you spend for a ticket?

Brunette Fan: Five hundred dollars.

Connelly: Five hundred dollars?

Fan with Braces: Yes.

Connelly: Is it particularly exciting to go the first show of the tour?

Redheaded Fan: Oh, yeah! Especially since the hurricane thing happened in Florida. We thought ours was gonna be cancelled too.

Backstreet Backstage (All Right!)

Connelly: Now, is the hurricane interfering with your plans at all? Did it mess up your rehearsal or anything like that?

Brian: Well, it shut down two shows in Fort Lauderdale. But we're gonna put those on the back end of the tour. Can't disappoint any fans.

Connelly: What's it feel like right now to hear that crowd ready for you to hit that stage?

Nick: It's pumped. We're pumped. As you can see, Kevin's got his robe on. I feel like we're stepping into the ring.

A.J. Ready to box, ready to go. It's gonna be a good show.

With Hurricane Floyd forcing a postponement of the first scheduled dates on this tour, the Backstreet Boys got to kick off their "Into The Millennium" tour right where they began the last two: here in Charlotte, North Carolina. With their 19-song set, the boys gave their fans everything that they could have hoped for: rockin' the hits, plenty of pyro and costume changes, and a chance to get up-close and personal with the boys in the band.

Chris Connelly did all that talkin' with his back to the stage the ENTIRE TIME. Can you BELIEVE that?!

Connelly: What do you hope to accomplish with this tour?

Howie: One of the things is that we really wanted to get close to the whole audience. Here, in the round now, everybody has a great seat. Everybody can see us very well, not just those on the ground. Sometimes it's even a little bit better to be a little bit higher. We're just trying to constantly upgrade our show. To prove to everybody that we're not just another quote-unquote boy band.

Post-Show Perspective with your host, Chris Connelly

Connelly: How was the show? What did you think?

Big-Eyed Fan: I thought it was so awesome! Oh my God... A.J. looked so good.

Connelly: They should do, like, a PG-13 show, where their pants fall down a little more.

Fans En Masse: Yeah!