Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean eyeing Broadway debut, planning move to NYC
Another chart-topping pop star wants to come to Broadway.
Backstreet Boys crooner AJ McLean has set his sights on Broadway and is planning to move to the Big Apple.
“That is like number one on my bucket list: to do Broadway,” the 44-year-old West Palm Beach native told fans during an appearance at 90s Con Sunday at Connecticut’s Hartford Convention Center.
“Within the next two years, my family and I — I’m not going to tell you where — we’re going to move to New York for one year and hopefully [it will happen],” he said, according to People.
In January 2003, McLean’s bandmate Kevin Richardson starred as the male lead of Billy Flynn in “Chicago” on Broadway.
Joey Lawrence — who followed Richardson in the Kander & Ebb musical — was also a part of the panel discussion at the 90s-themed convention. McLean credits the former “Blossom” star as inspiration for him to tread the boards.
“Joey did ‘Chicago’ right after Kevin did, and I’m like, ‘God, just hearing this is making me chomp at the bit. "
*NSYNC member Joey Fatone, another panelist, appeared on stage in productions of Broadway hits “Rent” and “Little Shop of Horrors,” which McLean described as his “all-time favorites.”
The married father of two has been sober for the past few years and competed on the 29th cycle of “Dancing with the Stars” in 2020.
