RICH LOPEZ | Staff writer
Rich@DallasVoice.com
Cyndi Lauper has been in the music biz for a while now. She’s experienced everything — high and low — that the industry can offer. So, to hear that her current tour began with uncertainty is a slight surprise, but, at the same time, it makes sense.
Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour drops into Dallas on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at the American Airlines Center. And this is her first arena tour in a while.
Before she embarked on her tour, Lauper talked to Dallas Voice about bringing this big show to life with her catalog of hits and a dose of laughter.
Dallas Voice: This is a big tour for you. How were the planning stages on this as you plotted out this farewell? Cyndi Lauper: I haven’t done this in a while, but it’s been pretty great. There are a lot of moving parts. As I go on with dates on this tour, I’ll just figure it out how it goes.
This is an arena tour, but those venues have changed a lot. Oh yeah, for sure. The arenas were different when I first started. We’re using visuals and projections. What I’m really excited about is that this is really an artists’ collective. We have all these creative people contributing to the show.
And you’re going to look fabulous while performing, I hear. I’m working with Christian Siriano on some costumes and with Geoffrey Mac as well. You know, the amount that goes into these shows is a lot.
You call this your farewell, but it certainly is a retrospective career-spanning show. Are there nerves at all about calling this the final tour? I just hope it’s not a Lucille Ball episode, ya know? That’s happened a lot at many Prides I’ve done. When people come, they want to be entertained, so I just want to get it right. We got big ideas for people to see.
How do you begin to encapsulate 40-something years into one night? I have an opportunity to give the people the things that relate to them. That’s awesome. I can’t do every song, but the songs I can do are the ones they want to see, the ones they were listening too. This time I’m getting to do what I think is gonna bring people in and make people happy and make them laugh.
Humor seems to have played a big part in your career the entire way. Why is that important to you? To me, there’s just a lot of music and laughter in the world. I wish I could have comedians as part of my tour. When I did the True Colors Tour, Rosie [O’Donnell] came out; Wanda [Sykes] came out, and I loved that they could bring a comedic aspect to the show.
Especially in today’s world which has such dissension all over the place right now, laughter is just so important, and I love that it’s a part of my show and my music.
For tickets, visit LiveNation.com.