Panic! at the Disco dazzles during sold-out Raleigh show

The Panic! at the Disco singer's voice is smooth and consistent even after belting out high note after high note for two hours or more several times per week.

The singer's vocal acrobatics seemed only matched by his limitless stage energy last night during a sold out show at PNC Arena in Raleigh.

The band's "Pray for the Wicked" tour is hitting arenas across the country bolstered by two top 40 hits - "Say Amen" and "High Hopes." It's a far cry from 2006 when the band became an MTV sensation for its video for the single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies." Urie is the only remaining original member of the band. Despite the talents of touring band members bassist Nicole Row, lead guitarist Kenneth Harris and drummer Dan Pawlovich, Panic's live performances are very much Urie's show with the singer showcasing his talents on drums and piano, the latter from a hundred or so feet in the air at one point.

Panic opened the show with Urie popping up from underneath the stage and immediately launching into expletive-filled "Silver Lining." The band did a great job of navigating through Panic's extensive catalog. Fans got at least one song from each of the band's six studio albums.

Standouts included "Death of a Bachelor," where Urie walked through the crowd to reach a white piano located on a stage at the back of the arena. Once there, he and the piano took flight above the crowd for a cover of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me," which Urie said his mother used to sing to him as a child. The cover quickly turned into the show-stopping ballad "Dying in LA," which Urie crooned while hovering over the crowd, at times stepping away from the piano to lean down and look at the fans below.

During the LGBTQ love Triangle anthem "Girls/Girls/Boys," fans were given colored hearts to hold up and use their phone's flashlights to project a colored light. The arena was soon filled with a rainbow of light.

Fan favorite "Miss Jackson" featured a drum solo from Urie, which ended with him back-flipping off of the drum kit.

Panic managed to squeeze in two more covers during the night - "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," which Urie did in honor of singer Cyndi Lauper, who wrote the music for "Kinky Boots" on Broadway -- a show Urie performed in last year -- and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." It was a fitting cover since Urie's vocal range is nearly as broad as the late great Freddie Mercury.

Overall Panic gave fans about two hours of solid, high-energy fun - closing out with "Say Amen" and "Victorious."