If you were a tween or young teen in the early ’10s, this one’s for you. Reunited boy band Big Time Rush will spend the summer on the road, with an Aug. 8 stop planned at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 28 through Ticketmaster. Citi cardholders have access to a presale that runs from 10 a.m. Feb. 26 to 10 p.m. Feb. 27.
The group was formed, Monkees-style, for a Nickelodeon sitcom of the same name. Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Logan Henderson and Carlos PenaVega played four hockey players from Duluth who move to Hollywood to chase their boy band dreams. (They were chosen via a nationwide casting call and none are actually from Minnesota.)
“Big Time Rush,” the show, was an immediate hit after debuting in late 2009. It ran for four seasons and spawned a 2012 TV movie that drew more than 13 million viewers in the States.
All the while, the group released three albums and found success with the singles “Til I Forget About You,” “Boyfriend,” “Worldwide” and “Windows Down.” They also toured heavily and played the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand in 2011, the KDWB Jingle Ball at the X that same year and Target Center in 2012 and 2013. They split up in 2014, with Maslow going on to compete on “Dancing with the Stars” in 2014 and “Celebrity Big Brother” in 2018.
In the early days of the pandemic lockdown in 2020, the band reunited virtually and released an acoustic version of “Worldwide” that became a viral hit. In 2021, Netflix added “Big Time Rush” and watched it hit the Top 10 trending titles. At the end of that year, Big Time Rush returned to the stage for shows in Philadelphia, Chicago and New York. A sold-out tour followed in 2022 and included a show that July at the Armory in downtown Minneapolis.
On their upcoming outing, Big Time Rush will, for the first time, perform every song from every episode of their sitcom. Two actors from the show, Stephen Kramer Glickman and Katelyn Tarver, will serve as openers.
