Towards the end of the show, with 5 songs left, the group's microphones were turned off and lights were cut. The sold-out show at the FirstMerit Bank Pavilion was cut short due to the city's curfew. Avril Lavigne was opening act for the US dates. On March 14, 2014, Backstreet Boys appeared via satellite on Good Morning America from Norway, to announce the second North American leg. Fatima Robinson and Rich+Tone will serve as choreographers. They will perform their notable songs and tracks from their new album. McLean, the concerts will have a theatrical feel, performed as a mini-movie. The band officially announced the tour on Good Morning America. In May 2013, band member Nick Carter called in to On Air with Ryan Seacrest to state the band were planning a North American tour, alongside their album release. Since the initial announcement, the band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and released the trailer for their upcoming documentary. News of the tour was first released in January 2013, with stops planned for China (known as the 20th Anniversary Tour). The tour also broke record in China, when over 1,000 tickets were sold within one minute in Guangzhou on June 8, 2013. This does not include the tour's 20 dates. The tour was the 44th highest grossing worldwide tour in 2014 with total gross of $32.8 million and ticket sales of 607,407. It has become one of the biggest tours in the group's tenure. It is the band's first tour featuring all five original members as a quintet in seven years, as band member Kevin Richardson left the band in June 2006, and rejoined in 2012. Supporting their eighth studio album, In a World Like This (2013), the tour consisted of over 150 shows in Asia, North America and Europe. The In a World Like This Tour (also known as the 20th Anniversary Tour) was the ninth concert tour by American boy band, the Backstreet Boys.
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