Girls just wanna tour: Cyndi Lauper is embarking 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 the Bell Centre in Montreal on Oct. 18. Per Monday’s announcement, the 23-date tour will hit major cities across the U.S., including Dallas for a show at the American Airlines Center on Nov. 12. The tour will run through Dec. 5, when the Grammy winner plays the last show in Chicago.
Lauper is no stranger to the D-FW area. Her most recent Dallas concert was on June 1, when she headlined the Turtle Creek Chorale’s annual gala. She has also performed with Rod Stewart in Grand Prairie in 2017 and at Dallas’ House of Blues in 2013.
Tickets for the tour will be available this week, starting with an artist presale beginning Tuesday.
The general ticket sale begins Friday, according to concert giant and tour promoter Live Nation. Special guests joining Lauper on tour will be announced at a later date. The singer also will be hitting the festival circuit this summer with appearances at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Glastonbury Festival also in the U.K. 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 pinnacle of pop music in the 1980s with her spirited anthem “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” off her first album, “She’s So Unusual,” which helped her earn a best new artist Grammy Award.
The “True Colors” singer’s tour announcement landed the day before her documentary, “Let the Canary Sing,” begins streaming on Paramount+. The feature-length 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’ve been asked to do 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 right away I could trust her to tell my story honestly, which was incredibly important to me, and she succeeded in that.”
To celebrate the tour and film, Lauper will be honored Tuesday with an imprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, where a private screening of the film and Q&A will follow that evening.
Over the weekend, the Emmy and Tony Award-winning artist joined West Hollywood’s annual Pride Parade as the celebration’s Lifetime Ally Icon honoree. The award recognized Lauper for her years of advocacy on behalf of LGBTQ+ rights, social justice and women’s issues.
The Dallas Morning News contributed to this report.
By Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times (Tribune News Service)