The girls just want to tour: Cyndi Lauper will embark on her three-month farewell tour this fall, the pop music legend announced Monday.
The “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “Time After Time” hitmaker, who is the subject of a new Paramount+ documentary, will kick off her final tour at Montreal's Bell Center on October 18. According to Monday's announcement, her 23rd tour will hit major U.S. cities, including her hometown of New York, with a show at Madison Square Garden on October 30. The tour will run through December 5, when the Grammy winner will perform her final show in Chicago.
Before that, the 70-year-old will tour up and down California, playing the Aztec Bowl's Viejas Arena in San Diego on Nov. 20, Inglewood's new Intuit Dome on Nov. 23, and Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert on November 24 and the Chase Center in San Francisco on November 26.
Tickets will be available this week, starting with an artist pre-sale starting Tuesday.
General ticket sales begin Friday, according to concert giant and tour promoter Live Nation. Special guests joining Lauper on the tour will be announced at a later date. The singer will also hit the festival circuit this summer with appearances at London's Royal Albert Hall, Glastonbury Festival also in the UK and Rock in Rio in Brazil before embarking on her tour.
The Brooklyn-born pop icon, the first woman in history to have four top-five singles from a debut album, reached the top of pop music in the 1980s with her energetic anthem “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” ” from their first album. Ella “She Ella 's So Unusual,” which helped her win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
The “True Colors” singer’s tour announcement came the day before her documentary, “Let the Canary Sing,” begins streaming on Paramount+. The feature film, which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, was directed by Emmy Award winner Alison Ellwood and explores the singer's life and career.
“Over the years I was asked to make a documentary about my life and work, but it never felt like the right time,” Lauper said last month. “Until now. When I first met Alison Ellwood, I knew immediately that I could trust her to tell my story honestly, which was incredibly important to me, and she nailed it.”
To celebrate the tour and the film, Lauper will be honored Tuesday with an imprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, where a private screening of the film and a question-and-answer session will follow that evening.
Over the weekend, the Emmy and Tony Award-winning entertainer joined the annual West Hollywood Pride Parade as the celebration's Lifetime Ally Icon honoree. The award recognized Lauper for her years of advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights, social justice and women's issues.
