New Kids on the Block to tour with Salt-N-Pepa, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson

New Kids on the Block -- pictured here in 2014 with comedian Arsenio Hall -- is going on tour with several other popular music acts from the 1980s next spring. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Debbie Gibson walks the runway at the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women Red Dress Collection 2016 in New York. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Naughty By Nature poses for photos at the premiere of "Brown Sugar" in New York in 2002. File Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/UPI Salt-N-Pepa at the 2005 VH1 Hip Hop Honors show. File Photo by Robin Platzer/UPI

Oct. 8 (UPI) -- New Kids on the Block is teaming up with fellow 1980s music icons Salt-N-Pepa, Tiffany, Naughty By Nature and Debbie Gibson for The Mixtape concert tour.

Tickets go on sale Friday, Live Nation said.

It’s official! #MixtapeTour 2019 is on! #BringingHappyBack with @NKOTB @TheSaltNPepa @naughtybynature @DebbieGibson @tiffanytunes! Thanks @CarsonDaly! On to @TODAYshow 10am hour, @SIRIUSXM & @iHeartRadio! Then the world! #80sBABY #BHLove pic.twitter.com/lApe0K94Li
— Donnie Wahlberg (@DonnieWahlberg) October 8, 2018

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The 53-city tour is scheduled to kick off May 2 in Cincinnati. Other stops will include Indianapolis, New Orleans, Houston, Phoenix, San Diego, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, Ore., Milwaukee, Denver, Detroit, Buffalo, N.Y., Boston, Newark and Atlantic City, N.J., Atlanta and Orlando, Fla.

The final show is planned for July 14 in Hollywood, Fla.

All of the acts collaborated on a new song called "80s Baby," which they will sing together at the shows.