Andy Gray

Micky Dolenz is the last Monkee standing, and the performer is on the road celebrating the co-stars who became his bandmates.

“The Monkees was more than the four of us,” Dolenz said, referring to Davy Jones, who died in 2012; Peter Tork, who died in 2019; and Michael Nesmith, who died in 2021. “That’s why I don’t call this The Monkees like a lot of groups out there with only one original member. It was a television show. It was actors, scripts, writers, musicians … It was a lot more than just four guys in a band.”

The live show, which comes to the Robins Theatre in Warren on Tuesday and The Kent Stage on Wednesday, mixes music with video — old clips from the television series (which had a short but memorable run of 58 episodes over two seasons from 1966 to 1968), tributes to each member and never-before-seen footage taken by Dolenz on the set and on tour.

“It started as home movies,” he said. “Everybody had a camera in those days. It’s mostly home movies, and it looks like it too. I wasn’t thinking about being a professional cameraman or anything (at the time). But I did direct an episode of ‘The Monkees,’ and it did become, ‘Yeah, that is what I want to do.’ It sort of morphed into that.”

Dolenz said he will perform all of the hits that Monkees’ fans expect — “Last Train to Clarksville,” “I’m a Believer,” “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone,” “Little Bit Me, Little Bit You” — with a special emphasis on the Monkees’ third album, “Headquarters.”

“That was a very important album for us,” Dolenz said. “It was the first time the producers gave us permission to go in the studio and record our own stuff, our own songs — the instrumentation, the production, the album cover, the liners, everything. It was quite a special moment. We went in the studio like the old days and lived there literally for weeks. I remember sleeping behind the drums overnight sometimes.”

Some of those songs Dolenz hadn’t performed for decades and revisiting them was a different experience.

“Especially the songs that I’m singing that Nez originally sang,” Dolenz said. “I was so used to doing the harmony part, it really took me a while to get into doing the lead part. It was weird. And some I’d never done like ‘Mr. Webster,’ which is a short, little story song. I’d forgotten how cool it is.”

A half-dozen shows into the current tour, Dolenz said they’re still experimenting with playing the album in its entirety from beginning to end or scattering the songs throughout the set. “Headquarters” didn’t produce any hit singles in the U.S., but it topped the Billboard album chart, at least until The Beatles released “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

“We’ve done it both ways,” he said. “We’re still playing with that.”

Dolenz continued to act after the series ended, and he directed several television shows in addition to that one “Monkees” episode. He also released music as a solo artist, but the Monkees lived on in a way that few television creations do.

When MTV started reairing the original series in the mid-1980s, Dolenz, Jones and Tork launched a reunion tour that included the occasional appearance by Nesmith. New music and more touring (in just about every possible configuration) continued until Nesmith’s death. The cable channel AXS just added the original series to its Friday night lineup.

The Monkees long history as a live act compared to the two-year run of the series blurs the line, but Dolenz doesn’t hesitate in calling “The Monkees” a television series, not a band … at least initially.

“I’ve felt the same way about it from the first audition until this moment — The Monkees was not a band in any classic sense. It was a television show about a band in the same way that ‘Glee’ was a television show about a glee club.”

But he believes the show’s creators always saw the potential of the TV band becoming a touring act. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have worried about hiring actors who also could sing and play instruments. If the Monkees never left the soundstage, they could have faked music.

Dolenz said Nesmith used to compare The Monkees to Pinocchio. They became a real live band just like the puppet became a real live boy.

“They must have had in mind that we were going to go out on the road, and as soon as the show sold, that’s what we did.”

If you go …

WHAT: “The Monkees” celebrated by Micky Dolenz

WHEN: 8 p.m. Tuesday

WHERE: Robins Theatre, 160 E. Market St., Warren: Micky Dolenz, ,

HOW MUCH: Tickets range from $40 to $70 and are available at the Robins box office and online at robinstheatre.com.