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A New Boy Band Gets Ready to Storm the Charts

Aired August 12, 2001 - 07:25   ET

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FRANK BUCKLEY, CNN ANCHOR: You probably heard of the Backstreet Boys and N'Sync. Now, another even younger boy band is ready to make a mark on the music scene.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: They may be new to the charts, but, as CNN's Jodi Ross reports, these kids are show biz veterans.

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JODI ROSS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What does it take to make a boy band? Well, in the case of Dream Street, five familiar faces, a cute video, a catchy tune and...

UNIDENTIFIED MALES (singing): It happens every time when I think of you.

GREG RAPOSO, DREAM STREET: We're not a rock group. And we don't carry around instruments. So considering that we dance and sing on stage, you have to put us in some sort of group, so I guess it would be a boy band. So that's what -- that's what we are.

ROSS: The band's self-titled album was released just three weeks ago and has already sold over 100,000 records. But if you think these boys are new to showbiz, think again.

JESSE MCCARTNEY, DREAM STREET: I booked when I was 11 years old the role of "J.R." on "All My Children." Well, it was "Junior" at the time, but then I became a teenager and changed my name to "J.R."

CHRIS TROUSDALE, DREAM STREET: My first big gig ever was on tour with "Les Miserables," and then I came to Broadway and performed it with Ricky Martin, which was incredible.

MATT BALLINGER, DREAM STREET: Doing "The Sound Of Music" and performing on the Tony's was probably like the high point of my career, so I thought that was really cool.

FRANKIE J. GALASSO, DREAM STREET: I did a TV show with Tony Danza called "Hudson Street." I played his son on that. I did that for about eight months. That was great, acting in California. And I was there for a while, so that was fun.

RAPOSO: Priscilla Presley invited me to go down and sing for Elvis' 20th anniversary of his death. It was a worldwide thing.

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ROSS: All the boys are Broadway-based, hence the band's name. Performing comes naturally. It was puberty that posed a problem.

RAPOSO: We started out when we were...

MCCARTNEY: ... 13 and 11.

RAPOSO: I was 13 when I started.

MCCARTNEY: They were all 13 and I was 11 years old. And we had -- we hit like high...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... like D.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Especially because...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Like Mariah Carey does.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.

RAPOSO: We recorded our album before our voices changed. So now, when we want to go sing live for people, you know, we have to change the keys.

ROSS: So these kids have become teens.

(on camera): OK. What about in that corner down there? Do you know him?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yo! Is that the guy from -- on "Comedy Central" who does the boring show?

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ROSS (voice-over): But still young enough to confuse Broadway legend Harold Rowe (ph) with Ben Stein on Sardi's Wall of Fame. It seems their dreams are just starting to come true.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing): Down on Dream Street.

ROSS: Jodi Ross, CNN Entertainment News, New York.

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