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Cyndi Lauper Has a Plan to EGOT: 'I’ve been known to scare a few people at that sort of thing. I think Kinky Boots, as a musical, might become a movie'

“They looked at me and were like, What the heck?”

“I had a hard time when I was famous because when I first hit everybody, they took everything I was wearing — the color, the style, you name it — and they spit it out and said we’re onto the next.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Terry Lott/Sony Music Archive via Getty Images Today, Lauper’s big voice and even bigger heart are still going strong as she embarks on her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun farewell tour — which, she stresses, is really the last hurrah. “When I was younger, I had a garbage bin for performances.” Lauper has long visualized this moment as an appropriate punctuation mark for her career, and — as she once prophesied — the 71-year-old intends to go out with a lion’s roar.

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