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Cyndi Lauper Leaves ‘Em Wanting More With Gratifying Farewell Tour: Concert Review
Cyndi Lauper's farewell tour is a chance to catch up with an artist who always wanted more than just fun, but provides plenty of it on her way out.
But she did venture out to it during the encore segment, again making use of whatever very directed wind technology was at play, holding on to the bottom edge of a giant rainbow ribbon that swayed aloft during her reading of what has become a gay anthem, “True Colors.” The show was otherwise light on — really absent of — gimmickry, so these excursions into air-driven stagecraft felt just right, in a night when Lauper’s wigs were the only other special effects. A rendition of Wanda Jackson’s “Funnel of Love” (from her quasi-roots album of a few years back) allowed Lauper a chance to put on a red dress, in honor of the rockabilly pioneer’s “devil woman” persona, as well as to rock out in a different way. Of course, it is an empowering message, sung at any age, and Lauper has found ways to make it interesting for herself over the years, including, at the moment, a collaboration with the 95-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama on the visual backdrops and red-polka-dots-on-white stage outfits for the finale.
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