Girls just want to have fun, but they also need to rest. After years on the road, Cyndi Lauper will finally get to hide away from the rest of the world on her own terms when she plays her final show this August. The “Time After Time” singer just announced the final leg of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, which originally kicked off this past October in Montreal. Lauper will now play 25 additional North American shows with support from Jake Wesley Rogers, starting July 15 in Buffalo and ending with back-to-back shows at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl August 29 and 30. The artist also has a prescheduled run of dates in Australia and Japan throughout April and May.
Lauper was joined by special guests like Chaka Khan, Sam Smith, and Paramore’s Hayley Williams in her first run of dates, so expect more famous friends to help close out her touring career. Lauper has been a star since the early ’80s when her debut record, She’s So Unusual, gave the world classics like “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” “Time After Time,” and “She Bop.” Since then, she’s released 11 studio albums, contributed to several film soundtracks, and written multiple musicals, including Kinky Boots.
She’s also advocated heavily for women’s and LGBTQ+ rights over the years, establishing both True Colors United in support of LGBTQ+ youth in 2008 and the ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights’ Fund in support of abortion and reproductive health in 2022. “When I saw [women holding banners reading ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights’ at protests] I cried a little, because I used to get in a lot of trouble for talking about women’s rights,” Lauper said on an episode of the BBC’s Desert Island Discs this week. “When I saw that, I called up my friends that I started the True Colours Fund with, and I said, ‘Let’s start the Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights Fund, co*e on’, which helps women’s health, safe and legal abortion, prenatal care, postnatal care, cancer screenings and everything having to do with women’s health and promotion of women. So we do that and we raise money and fund organisations all over the world.”
An artist presale will begin on Live Nation and Lauper’s website March 11 at 10 a.m. local time. (Code: HAVEFUN.) General onsale begins March 14 at 10 a.m. local time. Check out the new dates below:
07/15 Buffalo, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater
07/17 Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
07/19 Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach Theater
07/20 Philadelphia, PA – The Mann Center
07/22 Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park
07/24 Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
07/25 Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
07/27 Toronto, Ontario – Budweiser Stage
07/29 Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music
07/30 Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
08/01 Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
08/03 Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheater
08/05 Tinley Park, IL – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
08/07 Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
08/09 Bonner Springs, KS – Azura Amphitheter
08/12 Greenwood Village, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
08/14 Salt Lake City, UT – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
08/17 Ridgefield, WA – Cascades Amphitheater
08/19 Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre
08/21 Vancouver, British Columbia – Rogers Arena
08/23 Wheatland, CA – Toyota Amphitheatre
08/24 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
08/26 Concord, CA – Toyota Pavilion
08/29 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
08/30 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl