I was ten when I first saw the video for Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want to Have Fun—which would win Lauper the Moon Man for “Best Female Video” at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards—and shortly thereafter got the cassette of what quickly became one of my favorite albums,  She’s So Unusual.  Nearly every song was, and remains, a classic.  From unexpectedly resonating arrangements of covers, including her slowed-down and synthed-up take on Prince’s When You Were Mine, her melodica-accompanied version of the Brains’ Money Changes Everything, and her emotionally charged rendition of Jules Shears’ All Through the Night; to original gems like the rock-cum-New Wave ode to onanism, She Bop, and the bright, clock-ticking percussion of  Time After Time, which remains one of the rock era’s greatest love songs; the album is packed with songs that still slap hard, more than four decades later.

In that time, Lauper has sold more than 50 million records worldwide, earning a pair of GRAMMY Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Tony Award, four Billboard Music Awards, two American Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, and an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.  Almost from the start, she emerged as a champion and advocate, eventually co-founding the True Colors Tour (with $1 from each ticket sold donated to the Human Rights Campaign), starting True Colors United (to end homelessness among LGBTQ+ youth), and launching the Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights Fund (supporting organizations “fighting for the right to abortion and reproductive healthcare”).

Now, this groundbreaking singer/songwriter/performing artist (and New York Times bestselling author!) is bringing her first-ever Las Vegas residency, CYNDI LAUPER: Live in Las Vegas, to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace from Friday, April 24 through Saturday, May 02.  Created and designed in partnership between Lauper and Brian Burke Creative, CYNDI LAUPER: Live in Las Vegas has been conceived as a final opportunity for the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s legion of fans who might have missed her recent Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour.

So, get ready for Sin City to transform into “Cyn City,” if only for the span of these next two weekends!

CYNDI LAUPER: Live in Las Vegas
The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
April 24, 25, 29; May 01, 02
Click HERE for info and tickets

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