Benson Boone concluded the U.S. leg of his Wanted Man Tour last week with an intimate performance that gave him rare face-to-face time with fans, but also didn’t skimp on the electrifying theatricality that made him a pop star.

Boone packed a stadium’s worth of energy into the Palladium, a 2,100-capacity venue just steps away from New York’s Times Square, to mark the Sept. 10 start of New York Fashion Week. In the lead-up to Boone’s arrival, many in the crowd had audibly questioned whether the scaled-down stage would allow for the jaw-dropping aerial stunts that have become his signature.

Such doubts were put to rest when the singer emerged in a red T-shirt and high-waisted white trousers and segued into a verse of his opening song, “Mr. Electric Blue,” with a flawlessly executed backflip off a piano.

Boone demonstrated his acrobatic prowess at least a half-dozen more times throughout his set, which featured nearly 20 songs culled from his two albums, 2024’s “Fireworks & Rollerblades” and 2025’s “American Heart.”

He welcomed the audience to sing along to radio-friendly bangers like “Mystical Magical” ― which interpolates Olivia Newton-John’s 1981 classic, “Physical” ― and he performed it faithfully. His soulful vocals and rich musicality, however, were most impressively showcased on ballads like “Take Me Home” and “In The Stars,” the latter of which he dedicated to his late great-grandmother, “GG.”

At 24, Boone has enjoyed enviable success in the music industry in the two years since his breakout hit, “Beautiful Things,” catapulted him to global fame and helped him nab a 2025 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.

Speaking to AM New York in an interview published last week, the singer said he was eager to “actually feel and observe everyone’s energy again” in a small venue like the Palladium after spending the summer playing massive sports arenas across the U.S.

“I think I need nights like this every so often,” he explained, “just to stay connected to what it felt like at the very beginning.”

Boone made that gratitude apparent toward the latter half of his Palladium performance when he chatted with fans, including one who was celebrating their 17th birthday by attending the show.

Later, he fulfilled the audience’s request by crooning a seemingly impromptu rendition of his 2021 debut single, “Ghost Town,” which helped launch his career when it went viral on TikTok but has been absent from many of his concerts since then.

The night fittingly wrapped with “Beautiful Things,” which Boone delivered in sterling voice and with goosebump-inducing gravitas, proving yet again those many comparisons to Harry Styles over the years were short-sighted at best.

Those who stuck around for a bit after the song’s conclusion, however, were treated to a delightful mini-encore in which Boone went off-script and donned a Spider-Man mask before exiting the stage in a frenzy of screams and camera flashes.

Boone’s Palladium appearance, billed as part of Wells Fargo’s Autograph Card Exclusives series, was the last of his scheduled U.S. performances through the end of 2026. He’s slated to return to the concert stage next month when his Wanted Man Tour resumes in Seoul, South Korea.

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