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Backstreet Boys Add Four New Dates, Set Ticket Sales

Tickets for all shows on sale Saturday, Dec. 11.

Source: livedaily.com
By Rob Evans

Repeating a successful strategy, Backstreet Boys will put all tickets for their February and March tour on sale on one day. LiveDaily has confirmed that 19 cities are on the group's upcoming itinerary, and tickets for all shows are scheduled to go on sale Saturday (12/11).

LiveDaily has also confirmed that four new cities have been added to the group's itinerary since the band first announced new dates via its official website: Greensboro, N.C., East Lansing, Mich., Hamilton, Ont., and Toronto.

When tickets for the ''Millennium'' tour went on sale in August, the group's legion of young fans snapped up all 765,000 tickets in a matter of hours, prompting additional shows in many markets and shattering a number of box-office records.

Backstreet Boys, who played arenas during the 1999 leg of their tour, are booked into some much larger venues this time around. The Louisiana Superdome, for instance, can hold a crowd of close to 75,000.

The group concluded the 1999 leg of its tour last weekend with a pair of make-up dates at the National Car Rental Center near Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Those concerts, which were originally scheduled to open the North American tour on Sept. 14, were postponed because of Hurricane Floyd.

The group has announced plans to use to use Tickets.com's services to auction an expected 1,000 tickets for the upcoming tour, with profits earmarked for as-yet-unnamed charity groups.

[Note: The following tour itinerary has been provided by artist and/or tour sources, who verify its accuracy as of 12/8/99. Changes may occur before tickets go on sale. Check with official artist web sites, ticketing sources and venues for late updates.]

Check for Backstreet Boys tickets:

February
11, 12 - University Park, PA - Bryce Jordan Center (Feb. 12 is tentative)
14, 15 - Albany, NY - Pepsi Arena
17 - Charlotte, NC - Charlotte Coliseum
18 - Raleigh, NC - Raleigh Sports and Entertainment Arena
19 - Atlanta, GA - Georgia Dome
20 - Greensboro, NC - Coliseum
22 - Greenville, SC - Bi-Lo Center
24 - St. Petersburg, FL - Tropicana Field
26 - New Orleans, LA - Louisiana Superdome
28, 29 - Houston, TX - Compaq Center (Feb. 29 is tentative)

March
1 - San Antonio, TX - Alamodome
3, 4 - Dallas, TX - Reunion Arena
5 - Oklahoma City, OK - Myriad Convention Center
7 - St. Louis, MO - Transworld Dome
9 - Cleveland, OH - Gund Arena
10 - Indianapolis, IN - Conseco Fieldhouse
13 - East Lansing, MI - Breslin Events Center
14 - Hamilton, ON - Copps Coliseum
15 - Toronto, ON - Skydome

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