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The Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour is the sixteenth concert tour by American musician Cyndi Lauper. The tour is named after her 1983 debut single "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and has been described as her final major tour. The tour began on October 18, 2024 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and is set to conclude on April 23, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan after 44 shows.

Background

In June 2024 Lauper announced the farewell tour, clarifying that she is not retiring and will be open to occasional performances, stating that she wanted to do an arena tour while she's "strong now, but know what going to be like in four years." and that she really wants to celebrate with people and make it fun. It is her first world tour since the Detour Tour in 2016 and her first all-arena tour since the True Colors World Tour in 1986.

The tour coincides with her documentary Let The Canary Sing which premiered at Tribeca Festival in 2023. Legacy Records, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, released a compilation album of the same name which is a "career-spanning collection" of Lauper's career.

Promotion

To promote the tour Lauper appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on June 5. She also played two greatest hits shows in the United Kingdom, one at the Royal Albert Hall in London and appearances at Glastonbury Festival 2024.

Pre-sale tickets went on sale on June 4, with the general sale beginning on June 7. Dates for the 2025 European leg of the tour went on sale starting June 28. The opening acts for the tour were announced on Lauper's website on October 1, along with a new show in Atlantic City, New Jersey on December 7. Dates for Australia and Japan were announced in October, with a second date in Tokyo added November 24th due to demand.

Set list

This set list is representative of the show in Montreal on October 18, 2024. It does not represent all dates throughout the tour.

1. "She Bop"
2. "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough"
3. "When You Were Mine"
4. "I Drove All Night"
5. "Who Let in the Rain"
6. "Iko Iko"
7. "Funnel of Love"
8. "Sally's Pigeons"
9. "I'm Gonna Be Strong"
10. "Sisters of Avalon"
11. "Change of Heart"
12. "Time After Time"
13. "Money Changes Everything"
14. "Shine"
15. "True Colors"
16. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"

Tour dates

Notes

1. Promoted as 'Los Angeles'.
2. Promoted as 'Birmingham'

References

1. ^ Singh, Surej (June 7, 2024). "Cyndi Lauper explains reasoning behind her farewell tour". NME. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
2. ^ Grimes, Navier (June 3, 2024). "Cyndi Lauper Announces 2024 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour". Live Nation Entertainment. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
3. Haider, Arwa (June 27, 2024). "Cyndi Lauper at the Royal Albert Hall review — just wanting to have fun". Financial Times. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
4. "Cyndi Lauper's Glastonbury performance was beset with sound issues". www.bbc.com. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
5. ^ "'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' Farewell Tour Coming to UK/EU – Cyndi Lauper". Retrieved October 2, 2024.
6. ^ "Opening Acts For 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' Tour Announced – Cyndi Lauper". Retrieved October 2, 2024.
7. ^ Mukherjee, Soumyajyoti (October 15, 2024). "Cyndi Lauper 2025 Australian tour: How to get tickets, dates, venues, & all you need to know". www.soapcentral.com. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
8. ^ Lauper, Cyndi. "I am excited to announce that I have added a 2nd Budokan date to my tour run in Japan: 23 April 2025. Artist pre-sale is going on now".
9. Rapp, Allison (October 19, 2024). "Cyndi Lauper Launches Farewell Tour: Set List, Video". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved November 27, 2024.

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