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Cyndi Lauper review – a freedom fighter’s swan song
Forty years after her feminist breakout hit, the New York singer bows out of live performance with a show rich in colourful pop and personal anecdotes, while never losing sight of women’s basic rights…
There can only be one finale to Cyndi Lauper’s farewell tour set, soundtracking the streamer explosions garlanding a sea of upheld phones – Girls Just Want to Have Fun, a female-forward anthem from 1983 that hasn’t left hits radio playlists since. Lauper chatting – throwing off her wig, clambering into yet another get-up – is just as compelling as her holding a note A night with the Grammy, Emmy and Tony award-winning singer, then, is about far more than just a nostalgic romp through the hits. Near the end, True Colors – a song of consolation that became an LGBTQ+ anthem – finds Lauper dancing with a giant airborne rainbow-coloured scarf on a B-stage, an adapted “air fountain” work by the installation artist Daniel Wurtzel.
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