It’s been five months since Cyndi Lauper got her “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” farewell tour rolling — enough time to make a trip around North America before heading overseas to the U.K. and Europe. Now, with a pause in her busy schedule, Lauper announced the journey’s final leg, which includes an Aug. 3 date at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater.
The Milwaukee appearance is one of 25 additional shows Lauper added to the schedule, starting July 15 in Buffalo and wrapping up with two nights at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 29-30. Those performances in Los Angeles are set up to be her final ones, but in this era of legendary pop stars extending farewell tours for years on end, we’ll see whether that holds true.
Lauper has, of course, earned the right to say goodbye however she wants. Her wildly successful career started in just about the biggest way possible, with 1983’s She’s So Unusual becoming the first debut studio album by a female artist to log four top-five entries on Billboard’s Hot 100: “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” “Time After Time,” “She Bop” and “All Through the Night.”
That earned Lauper the Grammy for best new artist in 1985, which she followed with a second statuette almost 30 years later when Kinky Boots won best musical theater album in 2013. The project also earned Lauper a Tony Award for best original score in the same year, adding to her trophy haul that includes a Primetime Emmy Award in 1995 (leaving her an Oscar short of an EGOT).
It’s possible 2025 will add another honor to Lauper’s resume, as the pop star is once again on the ballot for this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class. We’ll see whether she gets in that particular door in a few weeks, while tickets for her Aug. 3 visit to Milwaukee go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. this Friday, March 14. You can find more information on that and all the presale opportunities at Ticketmaster.