Celebrity Tour

The Celebrity Tour was the fifth and final concert tour by the American boy band NSYNC. Promoting their final studio album, Celebrity (2001), this is the second tour to showcase the album. The group stated that the tour would go "back to their roots", as they would be performing obscure songs from all three of their albums. The tour earned nearly $30 million.[1]

Celebrity Tour
Tour by NSYNC
Associated albumCelebrity
Start dateMarch 3, 2002 (2002-03-03)
End dateApril 28, 2002 (2002-04-28)
Legs1
No. of shows36
Box office$33,356,237
NSYNC concert chronology

Background

In January 2002, NSYNC announced another string of tour dates known as the "Celebrity Tour". They believed that their songs were well known and were able to experiment a little more. Originally, the group wanted to perform in theaters, however, they were pushed to arenas due to demand. During an interview, band member Chris Kirkpatrick stated the second outing would remove the spectacle of their previous tour PopOdyssey and focus on just music.[2] Justin Timberlake added,

"[Fans] knew when they were coming to the show last summer that they were going to get something that nobody else had, which was basically about 80 percent of the album that was going to come out after the tour. This year, obviously, they'll know the songs, but we put a twist almost on everything, so it makes it fun for them to hear it a different way and to try to recognize those tunes."[3]

The opening acts for the Celebrity Tour included R&B singer Ginuwine, rapper and entrepreneur P. Diddy, and punk rock band Smash Mouth. The new tour dates coincided with the band's partnership with Chili's, which they were featured in several advertisements online and on television. Before the tour began, NSYNC released the third single from their album "Girlfriend", and performed at the 2002 Winter Olympics at the Olympic Medals Plaza on February 23rd, 2002.[4]

Critical response

Many wrote of the band's oversimplification of the staging. Others felt the "in the round" staging ignored forty percent of the audience. Leah Greenblatt of MTV News described the show at the Rose Garden as "electric". She continues "Justin was quickly established as the star of the show — at least as far as the Jumbotron cameramen were concerned — with JC running a close second. Joey, Lance and Chris have all the moves down, but appear to be going through the motions at times; this is the JC and Justin Show, and the others seemed resigned to their supporting-player status".[5] Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times thought the show at the Continental Airlines Arena was entertaining given the pseudo-intimate vibe. She continues, "The group is getting older, and its audience is, too: the young woman in the 'Justin I'm legal' t-shirt may not have been misrepresenting herself. And this tour is clearly designed to emphasize the group's musical credibility. And yet NSYNC is still a boy band, which means its existence—and its self-image—depends on its ability to entertain screaming teenagers".[6]

Personnel

NSYNC

Band
  • Kevin Antunes – music director, keyboards
  • Troy Antunes – bass
  • Billy Ashbaugh – drums, percussion
  • Greg Howe – lead guitar
  • Ruben Ruiz – rhythm guitar, keyboards
  • David Cook – keyboards
  • Paul Howards – saxophone, percussion, keyboards
  • Juan Sepulveda – percussion

Opening acts

Set list

The following setlist was obtained from the concert held on March 3, 2002, at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon.[5] It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

  1. "Video Sequence"
  2. "Do Your Thing"
  3. "Bye Bye Bye"
  4. "It's Gonna Be Me" (contains elements of "It Ain't My Fault")
  5. "Instrumental Sequence (contains elements of "You Make Me Wanna..." and "Back & Forth")
  6. "For the Girl Who Has Everything"
  7. "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You"
  8. "Tearin' Up My Heart" (contains elements of "If")
  9. "Video Sequence"
  10. "Celebrity"
  11. "Up Against the Wall"
  12. "Video Sequence"
  13. "She Loves You" / "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" / "Hey Jude"
  14. "Twist and Shout"
  15. "My Girl / "The Way You Do the Things You Do" / "I Can't Get Next to You"
  16. "Sailing" (contains elements of "Don't Tell Me")
  17. "Video Sequence"
  18. "Tell Me, Tell Me...Baby" (contains elements of "A Little Bit" and "Baby, Come Over (This Is Our Night)")
  19. "No Strings Attached"
  20. "This I Promise You"
  21. "Thinking of You (I Drive Myself Crazy)"
  22. "I Want You Back"
Encore
  1. "Gone"
  2. "Girlfriend (The Neptunes Remix)"
  3. "Pop" (contains elements of "Control")

Shows
List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, amount of available tickets and gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue
North America[7][9][10][11]
March 3, 2002 Portland United States Rose Garden Ginuwine 12,913 / 17,840 $825,843
March 4, 2002 Tacoma Tacoma Dome 19,542 / 20,604 $1,126,473
March 6, 2002 Oakland The Arena in Oakland 13,219 / 16,579 $682,146
March 7, 2002 Sacramento ARCO Arena 14,661 / 15,272 $883,101
March 8, 2002 San Jose Compaq Center 14,857 / 16,615 $896,542
March 10, 2002 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena 12,312 / 14,391 $838,556
March 11, 2002 Anaheim Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim 26,525 / 28,994 $1,742,981
March 12, 2002
March 14, 2002 Phoenix America West Arena Ginuwine
NSBB
Tony Lucca		 12,140 / 17,442 $806,218
March 15, 2002 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena 11,519 / 14,393 $958,090
March 18, 2002 Houston Compaq Center Smash Mouth
Tony Lucca		 13,059 / 15,394 $950,691
March 19, 2002 San Antonio Alamodome 14,569 / 17,667 $1,010,388
March 20, 2002 Dallas Reunion Arena 16,545 / 17,667 $1,010,388
March 25, 2002 Denver Pepsi Center 12,337 / 15,900 $810,568
March 27, 2002 Ames Hilton Coliseum 12,385 / 13,000 $764,528
March 29, 2002 Grand Forks Alerus Center N/A N/A
March 30, 2002 Minneapolis Target Center 12,291 / 17,832 $765,881
April 1, 2002 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 19,040 / 19,040 $1,133,623
April 2, 2002 Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena 9,496 / 10,334 $839,095
April 4, 2002 Rosemont Allstate Arena 30,637 / 34,354 $2,910,322
April 5, 2002
April 7, 2002 Buffalo HSBC Arena 12,854 / 18,221 $829,065
April 9, 2002 Philadelphia First Union Center 14,333 / 14,333 $916,847
April 11, 2002 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 13,627 / 16,630 $778,395
April 13, 2002 East Rutherford Continental Airlines Arena Smash Mouth
P. Diddy
Tony Lucca		 36,442 / 38,774 $1,969,370
April 14, 2002
April 15, 2002 Boston FleetCenter P. Diddy
Tony Lucca		 33,473 / 35,357 $2,097,028
April 16, 2002
April 18, 2002 Philadelphia First Union Center Tony Lucca 18,297 / 18,297 $1,133,227
April 19, 2002 Hartford Hartford Civic Center P. Diddy
Mr. Cheeks		 14,948 / 15,262 $1,046,720
April 21, 2002 Washington, D.C. MCI Center 17,656 / 18,373 $1,123,553
April 22, 2002 Pittsburgh Civic Arena (Pittsburgh) 14,606 / 16,114 $970,801
April 23, 2002 Columbus Nationwide Arena 12,751 / 15,934 $842,307
April 25, 2002 Memphis Pyramid Arena 15,426 / 17,907 $875,904
April 27, 2002 Sunrise National Car Rental Center 14,146 / 18,456 $962,817
April 28, 2002 Orlando TD Waterhouse Centre 14,344 / 16,619 $854,769
Total 510,950 / 583,595 (88%) $33,356,237
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
March 22, 2002 Toronto, Canada Air Canada Centre Cancelled
March 23, 2002 Montreal, Canada Molson Centre Cancelled
April 10, 2002 Uniondale, New York Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Cancelled

References
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  8. Awosika, Mary (July 12, 2002). "All for U: Usher, Faith, Nas, Cheeks in Tampa". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Liberty Group Publishing. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
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  11. Box score data:
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