Joey McIntyre

Joseph Mulrey McIntyre ( born December 31, 1972 in Needham, Massachusetts) is an American singer, songwriter, musical performer and actor. He was known primarily as the newest member of the pop group New Kids on the Block, which was celebrated in the late 1980s and early 1990s as worldwide pop phenomenon. After the preliminary separation of the band in 1994, McIntyre concentrated on solo projects, which included musicals and roles in film and television own music albums, stage engagements in Broadway and Off- Broadway. Scoring attention in 2004 in the lead role of Fiyero in Wicked - The Witches of Oz Since reunification in 2008, McIntyre is again active as a member of the New Kids on the Block.

  • 3.1 albums
  • 3.2 Singles
  • 3.3 More songs

Life and work

Career in the music business

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The son of bricklayer and trade unionist Thomas and his wife Katherine McIntyre was born as the youngest of nine children and grew up with his siblings Judy, Alice, Susan, Tricia, Carol, Jean, Kate and Tommy in Jamaica Plain on, a suburb of Boston. His parents are predominantly Catholic Irish-American origin. From a young age McIntyre stepped 1981-1983 in America's oldest community theater The Footlight Club in various theater productions on, including as the lead in Lionel Bart's musical Oliver!. In parallel, he attended Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury.

In the summer of 1985, McIntyre was at the age of twelve years was one of the youngest member of the pop group New Kids on the Block in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the most popular and highest-paid entertainers in the world. This success led McIntyre to many countries of the USA, Europe, Australia and Asia. Nearly fifteen years after their last joint public appearance came in 2008 in a reunification, under which the group with The Block released a new album, and since then regularly denies concert tours of the U.S. and Europe.

Solo career

McIntyre published in 1999 by Columbia Records released his first solo album Stay the Same, which achieved gold status in the U.S.. In the same year he recorded the song Remember Me for the film Southie - on Terror in South Boston, where his band mate Donnie Wahlberg acted as the main character. The song was part of the associated movie soundtracks. In collaboration with singer and producer Emanuel Kiriakou occurred in the course, the studio album Meet Joe Mac (2001) and the live album One Too Many (2002), which was recorded during a concert in New York. With 8:09 in 2004 joined another studio album. Published in 2006, McIntyre eingesungene new classics from the era of big bands on his fifth album, Talk to Me, was published in 2009 on iTunes Here We Go Again as sixth album and the single of the same.

Musical

One year after the separation of the New Kids on the Block joined McIntyre 1995 with the Gloucester Stage Company in Barking Sharks on an off- Broadway musical of the playwright Israel Horovitz. In the lead role of occupied with three actors musicals Tick, Tick ... BOOM! he acted from October to December 2001 at the Jane Street Theatre in New York City, in the category "Outstanding Off Broadway Musical" was the performance itself, the Outer Critics Circle Award in 2001. Between January and February 2002, the ensemble performed in South Korea, from May to June 2003 at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston. In September of the same year McIntyre sang in Los Angeles in Richard Rodgers ' and Lorenz Hart musical Babes in Arms.

2004 McIntyre received an engagement as male lead Fiyero in Stephen Schwartz's musical Wicked - The Witches of Oz Norbert Leo Butz, sparking the original cast from the premiere. On the side of Idina Menzel McIntyre acted until January 2005 in New York Gershwin Theatre on Broadway, was awarded in the category " Favorite Male Replacement" with the Broadway Audience Award. In 2006, McIntyre took over at the Falcon Theatre in Los Angeles, the main role of Fonzie in the musical staging of gambling in the 1950s and 1960s comedy series Happy Days.

Film and Television

Directed by Michael Ritchie embodied McIntyre in 1995 on the side of Joel Grey and Jean Louisa Kelly, the role of Matt Hucklebee in a film adaptation of the musical The Fantasticks, which applies so far as the longest running musical in the world. In season three of the high school series Boston Public McIntyre took over from October 2002 to May 2003 the role of the young teacher Colin Flynn, 2004, he starred alongside Mila Kunis starring in the theatrical production of Tony 'n ' Tina 's Wedding. After guest appearances on American sitcoms McIntyre was to star Jack O'Toole on display in 2008 alongside fellow actress Eliza Dushku in the movie On Broadway. In 2011 he took over both in CSI: NY as well as in Psych two other guest roles. He also starred in the romantic comedy Happy New Year with.

A guest appearance with the New Kids on the Block graduated McIntyre, 2008 Til Schweiger's Medieval Comedy 1 ½ Knights - In Search of the Ravishing Herzelinde.

Private life

McIntyre has been married since 2003 and lives with his wife and three children in Los Angeles. On 20 November 2007 their first son Griffin Thomas was born 13 December 2009 their second son Rhys Edward, 31 May 2011 their first daughter Kira Katherine. McIntyre ran the Boston Marathon in 2013 for a charity project and finished the marathon only 5 minutes before the explosions at the Copley Square.

Discography

Albums

Singles

More songs

  • 2009: 5 Brothers and a Million Sisters

Musical

Filmography

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