Cyndi Lauper's working day is almost done

Girls just want to have fun, but they also need to rest. After years on the road, Cyndi Lauper will finally get to hide away from the rest of the world on her own terms when she plays her final show this August. The “Time After Time” singer just announced the final leg of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, which originally kicked off this past October in Montreal. Lauper will now play 25 additional North American shows with support from Jake Wesley Rogers, starting July 15 in Buffalo and ending with back-to-back shows at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl August 29 and 30. The artist also has a prescheduled run of dates in Australia and Japan throughout April and May.

Lauper was joined by special guests like Chaka Khan, Sam Smith, and Paramore’s Hayley Williams in her first run of dates, so expect more famous friends to help close out her touring career. Lauper has been a star since the early ’80s when her debut record, She’s So Unusual, gave the world classics like “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” “Time After Time,” and “She Bop.” Since then, she’s released 11 studio albums, contributed to several film soundtracks, and written multiple musicals, including Kinky Boots.

She’s also advocated heavily for women’s and LGBTQ+ rights over the years, establishing both True Colors United in support of LGBTQ+ youth in 2008 and the ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights’ Fund in support of abortion and reproductive health in 2022. “When I saw [women holding banners reading ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights’ at protests] I cried a little, because I used to get in a lot of trouble for talking about women’s rights,” Lauper said on an episode of the BBC’s Desert Island Discs this week. “When I saw that, I called up my friends that I started the True Colours Fund with, and I said, ‘Let’s start the Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights Fund, come on’, which helps women’s health, safe and legal abortion, prenatal care, postnatal care, cancer screenings and everything having to do with women’s health and promotion of women. So we do that and we raise money and fund organisations all over the world.”

An artist presale will begin on Live Nation and Lauper’s website March 11 at 10 a.m. local time. (Code: HAVEFUN.) General onsale begins March 14 at 10 a.m. local time. Check out the new dates below:

07/15 Buffalo, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater

07/17 Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

07/19 Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach Theater

07/20 Philadelphia, PA – The Mann Center

07/22 Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park

07/24 Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live

07/25 Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

07/27 Toronto, Ontario – Budweiser Stage

07/29 Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music

07/30 Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center

08/01 Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre

08/03 Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheater

08/05 Tinley Park, IL – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre

08/07 Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center

08/09 Bonner Springs, KS – Azura Amphitheter

08/12 Greenwood Village, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre

08/14 Salt Lake City, UT – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre

08/17 Ridgefield, WA – Cascades Amphitheater

08/19 Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre

08/21 Vancouver, British Columbia – Rogers Arena

08/23 Wheatland, CA – Toyota Amphitheatre

08/24 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre

08/26 Concord, CA – Toyota Pavilion

08/29 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl

08/30 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl