NKOTB Dance with Jabbawockeez, Stunt with Blue Man Group in Hilarious Video for Las Vegas Residency

Mar. 15, 2025

Do theNew Kids on the Blockactuallyhave the right stuff?

That’s the question the band members —Danny Wood,Donnie Wahlberg,Joey McIntyreand brothersJordan and Jonathan Knight— are on a quest to answer in a new video promotingtheir 2025 Las Vegas residency.

In thefunny clip posted on Sept. 26, the New Kids meet with some of the city’s most popular acts to find out whether they can hold their own amongst the entertainment titans that came before them.

“We can’t just drop in,” Joey says to the group about their upcoming Las Vegas concerts,which will run in three blocksfrom June 20-July 5 and Nov. 1-15, 2025 and newly-added Feb. 14-28, 2026. “I mean, there’s so many legends here and so many great acts. We might have to, you know, check in with them.”

Says Jordan: “We have old friends in town. They will definitely know if we’ve got the right stuff.” And their journey around the city’s attractions begins.

New Kids on the Block at The NoMad Library Restaurant in Las Vegas.NKOTB/Youtube

NKOTB/Youtube

The first stop: executivechef Isaiah Torres' kitchen at The NoMad Library Restaurant.“We know that the chefs are the real rockstars in Las Vegas, so we came to you to find out if you think we got the right stuff for Las Vegas,” Donnie says to Torres. In a snap, the members are dressed in white chef coats and frantically cooking up orders of tomahawk steaks and scallops over a fiery-hot stove. “Yes, chef!” yells a panicked Joey, as though reenacting a scene fromThe Bear,as Torres calls out the next dish to fire.

New Kids on the Block’s Jonathan Knight at Cirque du Soleil Mad Apple.NKOTB/Youtube

New Kids on the Block with Jabbawockeez in Las Vegas.NKOTB/Youtube

The tables turn when NKOTB visits the Jabbawockeez, and teaches the masked dance crew how to get on the floor and do the New Kids' dance. Both of the groups join together to perform the classic choreography to the boyband’s 1988 hit single “The Right Stuff,” the inspiration for the name of their residency.

New Kids on the Block with Blue Man Group.NKOTB/Youtube

The final leg of the tour takes the New Kids to the home of the Blue Man Group. The boyband experiment on the cobalt blue-covered performers' signature PVC pipe instrument and extreme canvas spray painting to reveal a large NKOTB logo.

New Kids on the Block with Blue Man Group in Las Vegas.NKOTB/Youtube

“We don’t ever take shortcuts when we put a show together. And I think that’s one of the reasons we’ve made it this long,” Donnie told PEOPLE following NKOTB’s performance at the iHeart Music festival. “Being in one place provides us an opportunity to do things we can’t do on the road. And we hope to take our New Kids experience to a higher level and have so much fun. And that’s what we do: we have fun. So to us, the amount of fun we have on stage and with our fans, it makes Vegas the perfect location for us.”

New Kids on the Block.NKOTB/Youtube

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“We set goals for ourselves, we set challenges for ourselves,” said Donnie. “When you have kids and families and real life responsibilities beyond your boyband, that’s where you really have to prove yourself. In the music business, we set goals, we try to achieve them and we like to surprise ourselves and our fans. And I think the energy of our fans is going to blow Las Vegas away.”

Tickets for theNew Kids on the Block’s “The Right Stuff” residencygo on sale on Friday, Sept. 27 at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PTat ticketmaster.com.

source: people.com