Garon Cockrell 07.2019 Concert Review, Live Music, Music Leave a Comment This past Saturday evening, I had the distinct pleasure of seeing a legend in concert for the second time. Faithful, who were out in force to hear what the songbird has been up to since she last recorded. In the intimate confines of the Ford Theatre, Lauper reintroduced herself to her L.A. Cyndi Lauper performs at the WorldPride NYC 2019 Opening Ceremony at Barclays Center on Jin New York City.Concert Review Cyndi Lauper With her multimedia comeback firmly in place, Cyndi Lauper has successfully reinvented herself both as a performer and a personality.

VIP options can run on the expensive side for this performer, especially if the concert is renowned.Cyndi Lauper howls it out at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, on Fri., Nov. Typically, the average cost of her shows can run anywhere between 100 to 200 for a general admission ticket. In between? We’re kind of on our own.Concert tickets for Cyndi Lauper can start at around 79, as at the Beacon Theatre in New York, NY.

And that was a strange feeling. I just released the 30th-anniversary (reissue) of “She’s So Unusual,” and going back and listening to that record, and finding the demos and listening again was like being transported back in time. Is it a strange feeling to do this all again? You both still look the same, right? So in what other ways has it changed?A: There are a lot of anniversaries going on! So I am having a lot of deja vu. There must be a lot of other “deja vu” revisits of the same arenas on this tour. The 60-year-old star answered email questions to talk about this weekend’s tour stop with Cher, her late-summer return to supervise the tour launch of her Broadway hit “Kinky Boots,” and the 30th anniversary of her MTV breakout album “She’s So Unusual.”Q: So I saw you and Cher in the same MGM arena in 1999.

I think the last time was when I was on tour with my “Memphis Blues” CD (her 2010 blues outing). Since he’s now doing a lot of shows here (with a “VH1 Storytellers”-type format) how would you feel about something like that? Too busy with more cool “Kinky Boots” kinds of projects? Or waiting to be asked?A: I play Las Vegas almost every time I put a tour out. Feels joyful!Q: Of course you’ve played Las Vegas many times since, from our “beach” stage at Mandalay Bay to a co-bill with Meat Loaf back in ’03. Not so much deja vu, but a great sense of familiarity mixed up with lot of warmth like a family reunion. We have so much fun together, so it just feels like we picked up where we left off.

That was one of the first songs I wrote for the show. Celebrate your life and who you are and that certainly is what Las Vegas shouts to those who visit there.Q: And how does it feel to sing some of the songs from the show on the Cher tour? Did it feel strange not to be onstage in the Broadway show and somehow like “scratchin’ an itch” to sing a few of the songs yourself?A: I perform “Sex Is in the Heel” on this tour. The message of “Kinky Boots” is just be who ya wanna be. Then we all head to Las Vegas and do rehearsals there before opening night.Q: Does it seem oddly appropriate to you to kick it off here in Vegas?A: Vegas is the perfect town.

Sounds like you so far have been able to resist that?A: I actually did that this past summer LOL! My fans had been asking me to do it for years. Of course I love to sing, but these songs were written for “Kinky Boots” and so I don’t think of it that way.Q: Any thoughts on 30 years since “She’s so Unusual”? The prevailing concert-industry trend/gimmick is to perform a signature album start-to-finish. I love being the songwriter and having others sing. So it’s not strange at all for me to sing that song because I actually did record that one.I sometimes sing an a cappella version of “Not My Father’s Son” so I can explain to the audience at the Cher shows what “Kinky Boots” is.

I say live and let live.Contact reporter Mike Weatherford at or 70.MGM Grand Garden, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd.

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