JC Chasez turned the Nov. 21 efficiency of the jukebox musical & Juliet right into a mini *NSYNC live performance.
In celebration of the present’s particular theme night time (viewers members had been inspired to sing alongside to the soundtrack from hitmaker Max Martin) *NYSNC’s Chasez, who isn’t a solid member, emerged from stage proper and led the gang at New York Metropolis’s Stephen Sondheim theater in a singalong of the boy band’s 2000 hit “Bye Bye Bye.”
After the present — which is a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet that includes Martin’s fashionable classics like “Overprotected” (Britney Spears), “Break Free” (Ariana Grande), and, sure, *NSYNC hits like “It’s Gonna Be Me” — Chasez, 48, returned to the stage and joined the performers for one more music.
“So, this present is simply so a lot better with the singing, proper?” Chasez stated to screams from the viewers. “How good is that? How wonderful? Like, wonderful.”
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“I had one subject with the present. One subject with the present. That is really my first time singing on a Broadway stage once I sang with you at first, and I’ve the sensation I need to do it once more,” Chasez teased to extra applause.
He requested the & Juliet solid to hitch him and “sing a music that Max wrote that didn’t make the play that I feel may’ve, ought to’ve made the play. Let’s go!”
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Chasez and the solid then launched into an brisk rendition of “Tearin’ Up My Coronary heart,” the 1998 dance-pop hit from *NSYNC’s self-titled debut album. (Different members of the boy band embody Justin Timberlake, 43, Joey Fatone, 47, Chris Kirkpatrick, 53, and Lance Bass, 45.)
“I’ve had the pleasure of seeing & Juliet on a lot of events and the power within the room was at all times electrical,” Chasez stated in a press launch saying his participation earlier in November. “I couldn’t be extra excited to hitch in on the enjoyable together with the followers to honor my good pal Max and to rejoice the present’s two years on Broadway.”
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The looks from Chasez — who just lately launched the musical idea album Enjoying With Hearth, a reinterpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein — comes simply weeks earlier than his bandmate Fatone is about to hitch & Juliet in January.
“I’m excited that I’ll be becoming a member of the solid of & Juliet,” Fatone stated in October when his casting was introduced. “I can’t wait to get on the market and sing Max Martin’s wonderful songs — his hits have formed a lot of pop music. And, sure, I do know I’ll even be singing a few Backstreet Boys songs. Although my loyalty stays with NSYNC, they nonetheless have bangers.”
& Juliet is now taking part in on the Stephen Sondheim Theater in New York Metropolis.
