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Sure, six-hour-a-day pretour rehearsals are tough, but on the Dancing with the Stars tour—which will shimmy from Miami to Vancouver this summer—sore muscles aren't the only perils. On June 19, the day before opening night in Austin, Texas, tour vets Joey McIntyre, 34, Joey Lawrence, 31, and season 2 champ Drew Lachey, 30, couldn't resist hazing new guy Joey Fatone, 30: Mid-rehearsal, McIntyre yanked Fatone's sweatpants to his ankles. (Ever the pro, Fatone pulled them back up without missing a beat.) But that's about as wild as it gets. With their families in tow (Fatone, Lawrence and Lachey all have young daughters), "we do joke around," says Fatone of the cast (John Ratzenberger and current champ Apolo Ohno will briefly join them next week), "but we're also working hard to get it right."

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By the Numbers
6,000 TICKETS SOLD FOR THE OPENING NIGHT IN AUSTIN

200 TOTAL COSTUME CHANGES IN EACH TWO-HOUR SHOW

28 TINS OF EYE SHADOW APPLIED PER WEEK

6 CANS OF HAIRSPRAY USED PER WEEK

3 WEEKS OFF BETWEEN TOUR'S END AND THE START OF DWTS SEASON 5

3 DANCERS NURSING INJURIES ON OPENING NIGHT

2 WEEKLY TRIPS TO LOCAL SPRAY-TAN SALONS PER DANCER

2 WEEKS OF SIX-HOUR-A-DAY PRETOUR REHEARSALS

1 DAY THAT JOEY LAWRENCE HAD TO REHEARSE BEFORE OPENING NIGHT

Published in the July 23, 2007 issue: Correction: On page 128 of our July 9 issue, we misidentified a photo of dancer Irina Boubnovskaia as Kym Johnson. We regret the error.