Cyndi Lauper is set to headline five shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in April and May, marking her first extended Las Vegas engagement. Details about the performances will be announced Monday morning.
This announcement comes after Lauper’s recent performance at the Hollywood Bowl on August 30, which closed her “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour.” Despite the farewell tour, Lauper’s career continues, now with this Las Vegas residency.
Lauper, age 72, has a rich history of performing in Las Vegas, including headlining at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel (2016), MGM Grand Garden (co-headlining with Cher in 2014, and on her “True Colors” tour in 2007), the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay (2010), and Mandalay Bay Events Center (2003). She also famously dueted with Cher on “If I Could Turn Back Time” during the “VH1: Divas Las Vegas” at MGM Grand in 2002. In 2014, Lauper was the composer for the Broadway musical “Kinky Boots,” which premiered at The Smith Center in Las Vegas; she became the first woman to win a Tony for best original score.
Lauper became a global star with her 1983 debut album “She’s So Unusual,” featuring the No. 1 hit “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” as well as the top-five singles “Time After Time,” “She Bop,” and “All Through the Night.” Subsequent albums “True Colors” (1986) and “A Night to Remember” (1989) included hits like “True Colors” and “I Drove All Night.”
Her final tour is chronicled in the 2024 documentary “Let the Canary Sing,” available on Paramount+.