Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour
Tour by Cyndi Lauper
Location
  • Asia
  • Australia
  • Europe
  • North America
Start dateOctober 18, 2024 (2024-10-18)
End dateApril 23, 2025 (2025-04-23)
Legs3
No. of shows44
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 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. [1] 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.

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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 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. [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 in Montreal on October 18, 2024. It does not represent all dates throughout the tour. [9]

  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 at Fenway 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 Schottenstein Center
November 6 Tampa Amalie Arena Emily Estefan
November 8 Hollywood Hard Rock Live
November 10 Atlanta State Farm Arena Aly and 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 [a] 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]
Date (2025)CityCountryVenueOpening act
February 8 Glasgow Scotland OVO Hydro TBA
February 9 Manchester England Co-op Live
February 11 London The O2
February 14 Solihull [b] Resorts World Arena
February 16 Belfast Northern Ireland SSE Arena
February 19 Budapest Hungary Budapest Sportaréna
February 21 Lodz Poland Atlas Arena
February 23 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena
February 25 Berlin Germany Uber Arena
February 26 Dusseldorf PSD Bank Dome
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 19OsakaJapan Asue Arena Osaka
April 22Tokyo Nippon Budokan
April 23

Notes

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

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