Set to tour behind their first album in four years, Never Gone, the Backstreet Boys are planning to do something kind of radical for a boy band: scale back the production.

"There was a time when there were a lot of groups like us -- you had the Britneys, you had the 'N Syncs, us, 98 Degrees -- and the objective was to blow up as many things as you could onstage," says Brian Littrell. "But this tour, it's going to be about the music. The fans are going to see us five -- there won't be twenty-five dancers."

The five -- Littrell, Kevin Richardson, Howie Dorough, A.J. McLean and Nick Carter -- will perform ten songs off Never Gone, as well as their entire Chapter 1 greatest hits compilation.

That's not to say there'll be no frills. "We might have a little bit of pyro here and there," says Littrell.

"And we're going to break out the sequin blazers," Richardson jokes.

The Backstreet Boys' North American dates kick off in their native Florida on July 22nd, and will be followed by a European tour.

Backstreet Boys North American tour dates:

7/22: West Palm Beach, FL, Sound Advice Amphitheatre
7/23: Tampa, FL, Ford Amphitheatre
7/24: Duluth, GA, Arena at Gwinnett Center
7/26: Cleveland, Tower City Amphitheater
7/27: New York, Radio City Music Hall
7/29: Atlantic City, NJ, Borgata Hotel & Casino
7/30: Wantagh, NY, Tommy Hilfiger at Jones Beach Theater
7/31: Holmdel, NJ, PNC Bank Arts Center
8/2: Toronto, ON, Molson Amphitheatre 8/3: Clarkston, MI, DTE Energy Music Theatre
8/4: Darien Center, NY, Darien Lake Six Flags Performing Arts Center
8/6: Bristow, VA, Nissan Pavilion
8/7: Saratoga Springs, NY, Saratoga Performing Arts Center
8/9: Wallingford, CT, ctnow.com Oakdale Theater
8/10: Portland, ME, Cumberland County Civic Center
8/12: Hershey, PA, Star Pavilion at Hersheypark Stadium
8/13: Camden, NJ, Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
8/14: Mansfield, MA, Tweeter Center
8/16: Cincinnati, Riverbend Music Center
8/17: Burgettstown, PA, Post-Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake
8/19: Chicago, Northerly Island Amphitheater
8/20: Minneapolis, Target Center
8/21: Bonner Springs, KS, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
8/25: Irvine, CA, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
8/26: Phoenix, Dodge Theatre
8/27: Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
8/30: Concord, CA, Chronicle Pavilion
8/31: Marysville, CA, Sleep Train Amphitheatre
9/2: Ridgefield, WA, Clark County Amphitheater
9/3: Vancouver, BC, General Motors Place
9/4: Kelowna, BC, Prospera Place
9/5: Calgary, AB, Pengrowth Saddledome
9/7: Winnipeg, MB, MTS Centre
9/10: Kitchener, ON, Kitchener Memorial Auditorium
9/11: London, ON, John Labatt Centre
9/12: Ottawa, ON, Corel Centre
9/13: Montreal, Bell Centre