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New Edition cans management before reunion tour

​Troubled singer ​Bobby Brown and his ​old ​boy band New Edition fired their big-time Los Angeles managers and cut them out of $500,000 in fees ​– ​ right before setting out on their summer reunion tour, according to a new lawsuit.

The Boston-born R&B group New Edition whose hits include “Candy Girl” and “Cool It Now” hired Benchmark ​Entertainment ​in 2012 to promote their 31st anniversary tour​ this summer​.

Benchmark launched a website, found a VIP ticketing company to increase sales, hired a publicist, worked with set designers and organized the tour, according to court papers.

But the manage​​rs were dumped in June just days before the national tour launched.

​Meanwhile, ​an overweight Brown, the late Whitney Houston’s former ​drug-abusing ​husband, suddenly quit the tour in July after he couldn’t keep up with the on-stage dance routine.

The band is scheduled to perform in Lincoln, ​C​​alif. on ​Friday, without Brown.

Benchmark, whose managers have also represented Radiohead, Erykah Badu and Gree​n​ Day, was owed a 12.5 percent cut off tour revenue​, the suit states.​

The group’s attorney declined to comment.