The frenzy began early. Fans of the Jonas Brothers started arriving at Nationwide Arena as early as 8:30 in the morning for a show scheduled to begin at 7 that evening.
You know you’re not at the usual arena rock concert when you see these words flash across the JumboTron: “Scream if your mom brought you.”
That message — along with pretty much every other element of the evening — was met with a unanimous shriek from the crowd of tweens collected at the Sommet Center Tuesday night for pop superstars the Jonas Brothers‘ performance.
Holly Fisher set her alarm for 4 a.m. Monday, her first day of classes. But her early rising had nothing to do with school. She was playing hooky to see Joe Jonas, American Idol’s guest judge for round three auditions at the W hotel in Dallas.
Fisher, 16, and her friend, Tierany Buster, 17, skipped their first day of classes at the White Settlement school district’s Brewer High School in Fort Worth to see the middle member of the pop sensation Jonas Brothers, who call Westlake home.
The teen heartthrobs who have benefited tremendously from the patronage of Disney brought a tightly scripted production worthy of the Magic Kingdom to town with smoke, mirrors, lifts, lasers and — on the lower-tech end — a trampoline.
Two years ago the Jonas Brothers were opening for Miley Cyrus at Time Warner Cable Arena. Nine months later the trio was selling out arenas and amphitheaters on its own. Could Honor Society, the handpicked quartet opening for the Jonas Brothers on Friday, be next?
The Jonas Brothers returned to Charlotte on Friday night to perform at Time Warner Cable Arena.
The Jonas Brothers have a strong bond with their mostly young, mostly female fans, and someday they’ll have to break it if they want to be more than tween heartthrobs.
For the moment, however, this is not a problem. The brothers Jonas — Kevin, Nick and Joe — are about as mature as heartthrobs can be, considering their niche and the limits that come with maintaining a Disney Channel base.
The Jonas Brothers, the teenage pop phenomenon, played a game of softball and had lunch with some students at Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton on Wednesday.
On Saturday, tween-pop’s reigning princes returned for another sold out show, this time at the 16,000-capacity New Orleans Arena. Mothers with very young daughters — kindergarten-age was not uncommon — occupied many seats. The youngsters — and some mothers — screamed like banshees.
OMG! That was surely the consensus text message flying around at the Jonas Brothers concert at AT&T Center on Thursday. More than 17,000 screaming fans – mostly ‘tween and teen girls with moms and chaperons in tow – made this the loudest and best-attended concert of the year.
