Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter to play two intimate shows at Mohegan Sun

One of the biggest boy band names of the 1990s, Nick Carter, is returning to Connecticut for two solo shows on Nov. 9 and 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Mohegan Sun’s intimate 400-seat Cabaret Theatre on the resort casino complex in Uncasville, it was announced Monday.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster and will be available through the Mohegan Sun box office beginning Saturday. Ticket prices have not yet been announced.

Carter was the best-known member of the Backstreet Boys, who filled arenas such as the old New Haven Coliseum in the late 1990s. He has been a pop star since he was 12 and is now 44. His first solo album was “Now or Never” in 2002.

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Setlists of recent Nick Carter solo shows have included many Backstreet Boys hits such as “Shape of My Heart,” “I Need You Tonight,” “As Long As You Love Me,” “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart),” “I Want It That Way” and “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” but also covers of 1980s pop songs by other artists such as The Police’s “Message in a Bottle,” Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” Simple Minds’ “Don’t You Forget About Me” and The Cars’ “Just What I Needed.”

Carter has also had numerous solo hits such as “Help Me,” “I Got You,” “Superman,” “Never Break My Heart (Never Again)” and “Do I Have to Cry for You” that anchor his concerts.

Carter’s younger brother Aaron became a pop star in his own right, opening for Backstreet Boys at arenas when he was a child and later appearing regularly at venues such as Toad’s Place throughout his 20s and 30s. Aaron Carter died in 2022.

Mohegan Sun has regularly hosted reunions of famous boy bands, including Backstreet Boys in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014.