Las Vegas, NV (10.19.01)
Last night was unbelieveable.
I had no idea that the final night of the show was prank night, but man was
it! From here on in, if I see no other BSB shows, I will see the last show of
the tour!!! ;-)
First off, Nick’s hair was NOT GREEN! I repeat, Nick’s hair was NOT GREEN! Whatever he did to it was ‘undone’ by the time he hit the stage. Does it amuse anyone else to think of Nick spending the day in at the hair dresser with tin foil on his head and wearing one of those little smocks. Bwahahaha! He definitely had something done to it, though. It looked more blond than in Bakersfield and he kept playing with it, obviously self-conscious about it. It looked dry and it kept flying up and he’d kept patting it back down. During the first costume change, I turned to my friend Beth and said he was either going to throw gel in it or come back with it wet. Got it in one came back up with a bunch of gel to weigh it down. He still kept playing with it, though. ;-)
On to the pranks.
1. During Not For Me, AJ’s tear away sleeve wouldn’t tear away. I didn’t see his initial reaction (excuse me! Nick and Kevin were on the stage!!!!) but after it didn’t work someone (Brian maybe?) went up and tried to help him get it off. Wardrobe had obviously sewn or pinned it so it wouldn’t come off. Then during the break, Brian told us that this was not a normal show, because it was the last night of the North American tour, we’d see some crazy things. And was he right! ;-)
2. Intros AJ SANG HIS SONG!!! Beth and I were screaming so loud, I don’t think anyone near us could hear (sorry!!!). He sang 2-3 verses and ended with the chorus and saying that now he was happy. The boy brought tears to my eyes. ;-) Then Nick came up and did this whole bit where he made AJ stay on stage and pointed out that his toaster moved slower than Nick’s and he wanted to use his… yadda yadda yadda. He ended up riding back down in AJ’s and then coming back up and declaring that that was ‘the dumbest thing I’ve done onstage during this tour’ thanks for clarifying that Nicky! He was so cute, though! ;-) Kevin missed his cue, coming up from the wrong spot after some silence on stage.
3. Yes I Will this was the best! We were sitting on the left side of the stage in the upper level off the floor, so we had a really good view of the pit. During the beginning of the song, a whole gaggle of people in tie-dyed t-shirts (crew) came out and sat by the barricades. Nick saw them and refused to turn his back on them even when the dance called for it, certain that something was coming. About 1/3 of the way through the song, a TON of ping pong balls feel from above the stage. It was a FABULOUS PRANK! OMG! And our boys never even missed a dance step (which is good, because someone could’ve tripped on all those things!!!). Of course, many ping pong ball fights ensued (thoughout the remainder of the show and security even started pelting the boys with the balls!!!) and during the song, AJ and Brian both used their canes like golf clubs and shot balls off the stage.
4. I Want It That Way one of the crew members came up and stood next to Howie. He proceeded to mimic Howie’s dancing. It was so cute! Once the boys noticed him (took Nick a while to clue in because he was singing to the audience!), they put the spot on him and Kevin came over and on one knee he sang his part to the crew member. Too funny!
5. Medley Crew members to the right of the stage did the entire medley dance with the boys in sync, completely cracking the boys up!
6. Wardrobe change this is the one everyone will have pictures of because the flash bulbs were blinding!!! First, the two wardrobe women carried the box out which amused the guys, then when they couldn’t open the box Kevin was all chivilrous and opened it for them, only to be pelted with a stream of smoke and confetti that popped out of the box! ;-) AJ then declared that "the box is broken." Then the entire crew proceeded to come OUT OF THE BOX and walk across the stage. It was like a clown car. At one point Brian clued in that he could go down and come back up through the box. He liked that, he did it like 4 times! ;-)
This was when Carlos hurt himself. He came up through the box but instead of going down the stairs, he jumped off the front of the stage back into the pit. I saw him fall when he landed and the next thing I knew he was holding his leg (could have been his knee) and looked like he was in complete agony. There were a bunch of security and what looked like a medic there during the video bit and then Carlos was gone. ;-( Hope he’s okay.
Yes, during the Wardrobe change, Nick and Brian BOTH ran across the stage in only their socks, boxers and t-shirts. It was too funny. Nick did it first, taking his pants off in the box and then giving us a peek at his boxers (black boxer-briefs, btw. damn!!!). When that went over well, Brian did the same thing. They proceeded to come up the stairways in unison and run across the stage. I am dying for the pictures of that!!! ;-) I can just see Nick and Brian under the stage ‘dude, dare you to go up like that.’ lol!
7. Small Stage aka SILLY STRING FIGHT! This is where the security team gets the boys back for all the silly string antics during the tour. During the first song, the crew back at the small stage (including security) all had on masks (dunno what they were but they were all the same). I could tell they were holding silly string, but I don’t think the guys could see that. When it came time for them to sit on the side of the stage for the next song, Nick SOOOO didn’t want to do that. He knew something was coming! And they say our boy isn’t smart! ;-) During that song, AJ and Nick’s shoes got taken off. ???? and then they were PELTED with silly string. Nick was so covered you could barely see him. Of course, the silly string fights continued throughout Time. Nick was too cute (gee, is that a theme in this review???) when he went onto the bridge, he was just scanning the audience looking for somone who could give him some silly string. ;-)
8. God Bless America no pranks, time to be serious for a moment. Is it just me, or does Nick remind anyone else of a kindergartener when he’s standing there trying to be all serious? Like he can’t quite contain himself but he knews he had toooooo! If he’s a good boy he gets to play with the drums!!!!
9. Answer to Our
Lives before ATOL Kevin turned around and saw the back of his head on
the large screen and made them pan to the other side so he could pick all the
silly string off (yes, they got kevin too!). The song just rocked. Nick was
playing like two times faster than he should have been, but who cares! He was
having fun. At one point, Kevin went over and tried to slow him down but Nick
just ignored him! ;-) The crew running the spotlights were making fun of Howie,
doing the arms over
your head and hip shake thing. Too cute!
10. All I have to give the guitarist moved away from Nick so he had to follow him around the stage to get the hat. ;-) During the interlude before Stay we got the world’s biggest pelvic thrust from Nick. Oh my lord!!!!(Btw, it was a night of Nick’s pelvic thrusts and booty shakes. Like everytime you turned around Nick was shaking his booty at us!)
11. Stay the microphone came up at the beginning and it was like 7 feet tall! They just carried like it was normal. Then when the chairs came up they were all turned the wrong directions. Kevin is the only problem solver of the group and everytime he had to use a chair, moved it to it’s correct position. Whereas Nick and Howie had this great moment of ‘how do we do this’? You could literally see the hamsters running around as they tried to process the change! ;-) Love them too much!
12. Shining Star Nick’s dance partner came up to him with a glow stick in her mouth which shocked him and was cute. Expected the other one to tied him up in the phone cord, but that didn’t happen. ;-(
13. Band Intros During the keyboardist’s intro, Brian, AJ and Howie came up and they did the Nsync Bye Bye Bye dance to an extraordinarily rocking version of the song. Priceless! Oh, Ithink the other three had wigs on. There were lots of wigs happening throughout the night.
14. The Call Before the song, AJ went out onto the boxes in front of the stage and had fun walking back and forth and freaking security out. Then he looked at someone (Marcus?) and said, ‘should I go out there?" (meaning the audience) and then shook his head. Next thing you know, AJ’s in the pit and on the barricade. As soon as he was on it, though he jumped back and someone caught him. AJ staying on the barricade for a while and Nick came out (someone else with him????) with somethink like a yellow and black nerf bumper and started pummeling him. AJ whined ‘hey, I bruise easily’ but Nick kept hitting him. Nick, too, was in the pit, I think someone got to touch him, too!
At some point, AJ ripped off his shirt and then during The Call intro was posing for us, ‘how does my stomach look from this side?’ ‘And how does it look now?’ Cute!
At another point,
Nick came back out onto the stage with yellow tape and tried to tie AJ up. Dunno
why he thought AJ was just gonna play along and let him do that. AJ scolded
him, saying ‘we have a plane to catch!’ That intro did go on for a
while, but it was soooo funny!. Finally the phone rang and AJ dissed the ex,
screaming ‘why are you calling me, don’t you know I
can’t stand you anymore!" Ouch!
15. Backstreets Back came up with the wigs (same as Bakersfield) and then when Nick stopped playing the guitar he threw it so far that it nearly landed on the keyboardist’s head!
16. Shape of My Heart generally sillyness poking one another with flags and being silly. ;-) There was a lot of water and a water fight. At one point Nick got DRENCHED and just kind of stood there like, ‘what do I do now???"
17. Drowning beautiful. God, I love that song.
And then we had to go home! ;-( I’m sure post concert (and for me, post vacation as I’ve been on vacation for the last week 1/2!) will settle in next week. But for now, it was a fabulous show and I’m so glad we came! ;-)
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