As of now, Donny Osmond’s award-winning Las Vegas residency, which started five years ago, is scheduled to run through early June of 2027.
But when the 68-year-old singer from Utah finishes his run at Harrah’s on Las Vegas Boulevard, where night after night he travels through his six-decade career in 90 minutes, he won’t be taking much of a break.
Five days later, he’ll launch a U.S. tour that over two months will take him from coast to coast — concluding with two shows in his home state.
Donny Osmond announces ‘Crazy Horses’ summer tour
This week, Osmond announced his “Crazy Horses” summer tour that will begin on June 10, 2027.
The tour’s name stems from the hit song that marked a significant stylistic departure for the Osmonds with its hard rock sound, per Deseret News. The tour itself is also a departure from Osmond’s residency-style performances.
“Crazy Horses” reached No. 14 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and, according to Jay Osmond, changed the general perception of The Osmonds.
“Before that, we’d been called ‘bubblegum,’” he previously told The Guardian. “But suddenly we were getting invited to see Led Zeppelin at Earls Court, to sing ‘Stairway to Heaven’ with them on stage. We went backstage and met their families and everything. Great guys. We even used their sound system when we played Earls Court ourselves the following night.”
Donny Osmond’s “Crazy Horses” tour will conclude with two shows in his home state of Utah. He’ll perform at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City — which is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary — on Aug. 13 and 14.
Tickets for the tour, including the Utah shows, go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Donny Osmond’s Vegas show: ‘I define who I am’
In the meantime, Osmond is still performing nightly on the Las Vegas Strip.
“Every night for the audience, five nights a week, I define who I am,” he previously told the Deseret News.
Highlights from the interactive show include an audience request segment, a full-on production of “I’ll Make a Man Out Of You” and a performance of “Close Every Door” from “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” as the Deseret News reported.
Osmond previously told the Deseret News he’s constantly thinking of new elements he can add to his show to keep his production from going stale.
“If I just nonchalantly approached all of that and took it all for granted, ooooh,” he said, essentially shuddering at the thought. “There’s somebody else in the wings waiting for my position.”
But he’s also quick to shut down the idea that he could do what he does for another 20 years. He can visualize the end of his career.
“I have set a certain standard for my shows,” he said. “I do a show that’s full of production, because that’s what I was raised with, that’s the type of show I like to put on. ... As soon as the day comes where I can’t give 100% like I give every night, that curtain’s not going to go back up. I never want to be the entertainer where you go out on stage and you hear people say, ‘Oh, it’s time to give it up.’ I never want that to happen.
“It’s nowhere near right now,” he added. “I don’t know how close it is, but I see the end of the tunnel.”
The art of performing: ‘I take them on a ride’
Osmond’s Vegas residency will pause for about two months starting in mid-December. During that time, he’ll embark on a 12-show run throughout the U.K., where Osmondmania took hold in the 1970s.
For the singer, who was just 5 years old when he sang “You Are My Sunshine” on “The Andy Williams Show,” the art and act of performing still hasn’t gotten old.
“Whatever you might be doing, you hope you leave some kind of a legacy where you’ve touched people in a positive way,” he told the Deseret News. “I’m not curing cancer, OK? I’m just entertaining. But when people come to the show, I take them on a ride I call show business escapism.
“And if I can touch somebody’s life for 90 minutes and make their life a little bit happier, a little bit brighter through music and entertainment ... then I’ve really done what I’ve wanted to do in life.”