Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour
Tour by Cyndi Lauper
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour (poster).jpg
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • Asia
  • Australia
  • Europe
  • North America
Start dateOctober 18, 2024 (2024-10-18)
End dateAugust 30, 2025 (2025-08-30)
Legs3
No. of shows69
Cyndi Lauper concert chronology
  • Japan Tour 2019
    (2019)
  • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour
    (2024–2025)
  • ...

The Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour was 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. [1] The tour began on October 18, 2024 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada and concluded on August 30, 2025 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, United States, after 69 shows in four continents.

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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 [she doesn't] know what [she is] going to be like in four years." and that she really wants to celebrate with people and make it fun. [1] It is her first world tour since the Detour Tour (2016) and her first all-arena tour since the True Colors World Tour (1986).

The tour coincides with her documentary Let The Canary Sing which premiered at Tribeca Festival in 2023. [1] [2] 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. [2]

Promotion

To promote the tour Lauper appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on June 5. [1] 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. [1] [3] [4]

Pre-sale tickets went on sale on June 4, with the general sale beginning on June 7. [2] Dates for the 2025 European leg of the tour went on sale starting June 28. [5] 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. [6] Dates for Australia and Japan were announced in October, with a second date in Tokyo added November 24th due to demand. [7] [8]

Set list

This set list is representative of the show at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada, on October 18, 2024. [9] 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

List of 2024 concerts [2] [6]
Date (2024)CityCountryVenueOpening act
October 18 Montreal Canada Bell Centre Rêve
October 20 Toronto Scotiabank Arena Lu Kala
October 24 Detroit United States Fox Theatre
October 26 Boston MGM Music Hall Amanda Shires
October 27 Washington, D.C. Capital One Arena
October 30 New York City Madison Square Garden Elle King
November 1 Nashville Bridgestone Arena
November 3 Columbus Value City Arena
November 6 Tampa Amalie Arena Emily Estefan
November 8 Hollywood Hard Rock Live
November 10 Atlanta State Farm Arena Aly & AJ
November 12 Dallas American Airlines Center
November 14 Austin Moody Center
November 16 Houston Toyota Center
November 19 Phoenix Footprint Center Daya
November 20 San Diego Viejas Arena
November 23 Inglewood Intuit Dome
November 24 Palm Desert Acrisure Arena Trixie Mattel
November 26 San Francisco Chase Center
November 30 Portland Moda Center Gayle
December 1 Seattle Climate Pledge Arena
December 4 Minneapolis Target Center
December 5 Chicago United Center
December 7 Atlantic City Hard Rock Live
List of 2025 concerts [5] [7] [8] [10]
Date (2025)CityCountryVenueOpening act
February 8 Glasgow Scotland OVO Hydro Tracy Young
February 9 Manchester England Co-op Live —
February 11 London The O2 Arena
February 14 Birmingham Bp pulse LIVE
February 16 Belfast Northern Ireland SSE Arena
February 19 Budapest Hungary László Papp Budapest Sports Arena
February 21 Łódź Poland Atlas Arena Tracy Young
February 23 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena —
February 25 Berlin Germany Uber Arena
February 26 Dusseldorf PSD Bank Dome Tracy Young
February 28 Paris France Accor Arena —
April 2 Melbourne Australia Rod Laver Arena The Veronicas
April 5 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre
April 7 Newcastle Newcastle Entertainment Centre
April 8 Sydney Qudos Bank Arena
April 10 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre
April 12 Perth RAC Arena
April 19 Osaka Japan Asue Arena —
April 22 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
April 23
April 25
July 17 Mansfield United States Xfinity Center Jake Wesley Rogers
July 19 Wantagh Jones Beach Theater
July 20 Philadelphia TD Pavilion
July 22 Raleigh Coastal Credit Union Music Park
July 24 Bristow Jiffy Lube Live
July 25 Bethel Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
July 27TorontoCanada Budweiser Stage
July 29 Cincinnati United States Riverbend Music Center
July 30 Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center
August 1 Independence Township Pine Knob Music Theatre
August 3 Milwaukee American Family Insurance Amphitheater
August 5 Tinley Park Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
August 7 Noblesville Ruoff Music Center
August 9 Bonner Springs Sandstone Amphitheater
August 12 Greenwood Village Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
August 14 West Valley City Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
August 17 Ridgefield RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
August 19 Auburn White River Amphitheatre
August 21 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena
August 23 Wheatland United States Toyota Amphitheatre
August 24 Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre
August 29 Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl
August 30
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
July 15, 2025 Darien, New York Darien Lake Amphitheatre Cancelled
August 26 Concord Concord Pavilion Cancelled

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Singh, Surej (June 7, 2024). "Cyndi Lauper explains reasoning behind her farewell tour". NME. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 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. June 29, 2024. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
  5. 1 2 "'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' Farewell Tour Coming to UK/EU – Cyndi Lauper" . Retrieved October 2, 2024.
  6. 1 2 "Opening Acts For 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' Tour Announced – Cyndi Lauper" . Retrieved October 2, 2024.
  7. 1 2 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. 1 2 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". Facebook .
  9. ↑ Rapp, Allison (October 19, 2024). "Cyndi Lauper Launches Farewell Tour: Set List, Video". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved November 27, 2024.
  10. ↑ Grimes, Navier (March 10, 2025). "Cyndi Lauper Announces Final Leg Of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour Dates". Live Nation Entertainment. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
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