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Menudo Marks Its 50th Anniversary With a Reunion Tour Starting at Los Angeles’ YouTube Theater
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Culture/The Apex Times/Jun 15, 12:33 PM EDT

Menudo Marks Its 50th Anniversary With a Reunion Tour Starting at Los Angeles’ YouTube Theater

Former Menudo members including René Farrait, Roy Rossello, Raymond Acevedo, Sergio Blass, Ralphy Rodríguez, Rubén Gómez and Robert Avellanet will appear under the Menudo name for a limited run celebrating the group’s five-decade history.

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Menudo will reunite for a 50th anniversary tour that begins in Los Angeles at the YouTube Theater, according to a report from Deadline published June 15, 2026. The series is being billed as the group’s first official reunion under the Menudo brand, bringing together several performers associated with different eras of the band.

Deadline reported that the Menudo 50th Anniversary Tour is planned as a celebration of the franchise’s 50-year legacy, with multiple former members scheduled to take part. The performers listed in the announcement span the group’s decades-long lineup changes, which are often associated with Menudo’s original business model and rotating roster.

Among those named are René Farrait (who performed from 1979 to 1982), Roy Rossello (1983 to 1986), Raymond Acevedo (1985 to 1988), and Sergio Blass (1986 to 1990). Deadline also listed Ralphy Rodríguez (1987), Rubén Gómez (1987 to 1990), and Robert Avellanet (1988 to 1991), each identified with the years they were part of the group.

The Los Angeles kickoff at YouTube Theater places the tour in a major entertainment market and in a venue owned by YouTube’s parent company, Google, which has increasingly used live events programming as part of its broader platform strategy. The choice of venue reflects the continued commercial visibility of legacy pop acts within mainstream concert circuits.

Deadline’s report did not provide additional detail in its summary about the full set of tour dates or the scope of the tour beyond the announcement that the reunion tour will launch in Los Angeles. As additional stops are announced by the tour organizers, fans and local ticket buyers will be looking for confirmation of scheduling, ticketing terms, and any changes to the lineup.

For Menudo’s audience, the reunion is likely to be experienced as both a nostalgia event and a renewed public demonstration of the band’s multi-era identity. For the performers involved, the project also functions as a formal re-entry under the Menudo name for an anniversary marking the group’s long-run cultural footprint.

The tour’s next steps hinge on venue schedules and ticket sales, since reunion events typically require coordination with promoters and rights holders for branding and catalog use. Deadline’s account indicates the tour is positioned specifically as a Menudo-branded anniversary series, rather than an independently billed retrospective compilation.

Why It Matters

  • The announcement formalizes a brand-level reunion spanning multiple lineup eras associated with Menudo’s 50-year history.
  • A Los Angeles launch at a major arena venue indicates the event’s mainstream presentation and commercial scale within the live-event market.
  • For fans and ticket buyers, the next operational milestone is confirmation of additional dates, ticketing details, and any lineup adjustments as the tour expands.
  • Because the event is branded as an official Menudo reunion, it highlights how legacy music identities are managed publicly for anniversaries, including under a single named franchise.

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Key Facts

  • Menudo will host a 50th Anniversary Tour that begins in Los Angeles at the YouTube Theater, Deadline reported on June 15, 2026.
  • The tour is described as Menudo’s first official reunion under the Menudo brand.
  • René Farrait, Roy Rossello, Raymond Acevedo, Sergio Blass, Ralphy Rodríguez, Rubén Gómez, and Robert Avellanet are listed among the former members appearing.
  • Deadline identifies each listed performer with the years they were part of Menudo, including Farrait (1979-1982), Rossello (1983-1986), Acevedo (1985-1988), Blass (1986-1990), Rodríguez (1987), Gómez (1987-1990), and Avellanet (1988-1991).