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CBS News
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Cyndi Lauper plots 3 Northern California shows for "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour"
The final leg of Cyndi Lauper's farewell tour has been announced, and Northern California will have several chances to see her. Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour" is already underway, having started back in Oct. 2024 with a run of shows across the US and Europe. On Monday, Lauper announced the final summer dates for the tour. This leg will swing by outdoor amphitheaters and performing arts centers. People in Northern California will have three chances to see Lauper: Aug. 23 at the Toyota Amphitheatre in Wheatland, Aug. 24 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, and Aug. 26 at the Toyota Pavilion in Concord. Two final stops in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 29 and 30 were also announced. Jake Wesley Rogers is the scheduled opening act for the tour. Presale tickets for the tour are scheduled to start Tuesday, with general on sale set to start Friday.
Telegraph
15-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Cyndi Lauper: ‘I love animals, but I don't know how to live without meat'
How do famous names spend their precious downtime? In our weekly My Saturday column, celebrities reveal their weekend virtues and vices. This week: Cyndi Lauper 9am I hate getting up early: if I'd wanted to be a farmer, I'd have been a farmer. At home in New York, I'll lie in, then go for a walk. I miss my pugs, Ping and Lulu, when I'm on tour, and my husband [the actor David Thornton] doesn't come with me because he has his own stuff going on – but he's meeting me in Paris. 9.30am The first thing I do is get a Neti Pot and rinse out my nose with a mixture of salts. 10am I always listen to my body or I'm screwed. I start my physical therapy, feet first, then shoulder rolls, lower back and a bird dog. Then I do intense yoga, and weights for my legs and arms. 11am I make space to sing for an hour and a half. I'll hear a weak spot, zero in, and exercise to strengthen it. All my life, people would tell me, 'You're too small to sing like that' but I found a teacher who was teaching rockers, and I use her exercises religiously. 12.30pm Somebody comes in and helps me pack up to get to the gig [the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour is in the UK this week. Lauper played Belfast on February 16]. 1pm I eat as much as I can until it's time to get ready for the show. I'll have salad, protein and a baked potato, because everything's better with a little butter. I was getting vegan food delivered until they used too much spinach. It kills me because I love animals and, if you love them, you don't eat them. But I don't know how to live on the road without meat. I tried the vegetarian thing and the pescatarian thing, but the fish wants to live too, right? I gotta figure it out. 3pm We sound check to make sure you can hear what you need to hear, but it's live, so s—t happens. Before the first show in the US, I woke up in a panic attack, terrified, and, when I played New York, I got so nervous, thinking, 'You idiot, you invited everybody, so if you suck, you are gonna suck in such a big way.' I have to get that out of my head. 5pm I get my butt on the bike and ride for 20 minutes, doing a stupid Peloton. I'm 71 and I'm strong – as a performer, you have to be an athlete because, if you're not, your voice won't be in prime shape. When I had Covid, it killed a nerve on my vocal cord and doctors said: 'Well, you'll never sing like that again.' I had to work to get that back. 8pm I tell everybody, 'Hey, guys, have a great show,' but I don't believe in the 'Let's put our hands together and pray' thing. I'll say, 'Don't freak out, it's rock 'n' roll, have a good time.' 10pm I dismantle my face and stick it over some steam, then start my vocal warm-down. 12am I'm reading about Mother Cabrini. I never look at comments about me, because everybody's got an opinion, good for them, but I saw one saying, 'She has cleavage at her age?' and I'm like, 'I'm not a nun, am I supposed to dress like Mother Cabrini?' When the movie [Cabrini] came out, my friends said, 'You gotta see this.' It made me want to know about her life. She was a force of nature – and another diminutive white woman.
Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cyndi Lauper review – still showing her true colours in fun farewell tour
Within 10 minutes of appearing on stage, Cyndi Lauper has sung about masturbation, played a tuneless recorder solo, accidentally hit a crew member with said instrument, and given a rambling speech about wrestlers, the Goonies and how, after more than 40 years in music, this will be her last tour. 'I figured if I was going out,' she says while sporting a mint-green wig, 'I'd go out with a bang.' That's certainly one way to describe the approach to the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Lauper's first (and now final) arena shows since 1987. The tour began last year in North America, although that time on the road hasn't reined in the chaos: the show is all over the place. Along with the incident involving the recorder, Lauper is plagued by technical difficulties, poor sound that buries her voice beneath an admittedly slick band, an uneven setlist, dodgy costumes, and her own garrulous monologues. For anyone else it could be disastrous. But as Lauper begins another anecdote about a breakup with boyfriend and the movie Poltergeist, she wins you over with her charming and squeaky New York drawl. 'I'm only talking to you because I don't want you think that all this is bigger than you and me connecting,' she says. When things align, the show is excellent: material from She's So Unusual is a highlight, Lauper's still impressive voice punching through her fizzy cover of Prince's When You Were Mine, then delicately caressing the soft, pillowy Time After Time. There's moving vulnerability in an a cappella take on Fearless, revved-up passion during I Drove All Night, soaring euphoria in the new age strum of Sisters of Avalon, and a poignant performance of True Colors staged alongside a version of artist Daniel Wurtzel's Air Fountain installation. It's just enough to distract from the mess – but then again, Lauper has often left slick perfectionism in the hands of her peers. During her final and most famous song, the aim of the night becomes clear: even at 71 years old, this girl just wants to have fun. • At the O2, London, on 11 February; then touring.
The Guardian
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Cyndi Lauper review – still showing her true colours in fun farewell tour
Within 10 minutes of appearing on stage, Cyndi Lauper has sung about masturbation, played a tuneless recorder solo, accidentally hit a crew member with said instrument, and given a rambling speech about wrestlers, the Goonies and how, after more than 40 years in music, this will be her last tour. 'I figured if I was going out,' she says while sporting a mint-green wig, 'I'd go out with a bang.' That's certainly one way to describe the approach to the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Lauper's first (and now final) arena shows since 1987. The tour began last year in North America, although that time on the road hasn't reined in the chaos: the show is all over the place. Along with the incident involving the recorder, Lauper is plagued by technical difficulties, poor sound that buries her voice beneath an admittedly slick band, an uneven setlist, dodgy costumes, and her own garrulous monologues. For anyone else it could be disastrous. But as Lauper begins another anecdote about a breakup with boyfriend and the movie Poltergeist, she wins you over with her charming and squeaky New York drawl. 'I'm only talking to you because I don't want you think that all this is bigger than you and me connecting,' she says. When things align, the show is excellent: material from She's So Unusual is a highlight, Lauper's still impressive voice punching through her fizzy cover of Prince's When You Were Mine, then delicately caressing the soft, pillowy Time After Time. There's moving vulnerability in an a cappella take on Fearless, revved-up passion during I Drove All Night, soaring euphoria in the new age strum of Sisters of Avalon, and a poignant performance of True Colors staged alongside a version of artist Daniel Wurtzel's Air Fountain installation. It's just enough to distract from the mess – but then again, Lauper has often left slick perfectionism in the hands of her peers. During her final and most famous song, the aim of the night becomes clear: even at 71 years old, this girl just wants to have fun. At the O2, London, on 11 February; then touring.
