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Cyndi Lauper & Friends: Home for the Holidays
December 4th, 2011

The Beacon Theatre

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2124 Broadway
New York, NY 10023

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Showing Her True Colors

Falling in love with Cyndi Lauper isn’t hard to do. The 80’s icon has been in a romance with gay community since she exploded onto the music scene with her 1983 album She’s So Unusual, a recording that defined the Reagan-era as much as Miami Vice, voodoo economics, and new Coke. With her glam-meets-punk aesthetic and a kewpie-doll voice that surprises with its unexpected range, power and expressiveness, Lauper has always been sui generis. She’s the eccentric outsider who made it big. Maybe that’s why we are so fond of her; gays know something about being different.

Not content to simply luxuriate as pop royalty, Cyndi Lauper continues to give back. This December 4th Lauper is headlining an all-star benefit for the True Colors Fund, a charity she founded in 2008 to fight for LGBT equality and raise public awareness of the LGBT-youth homelessness crisis.  Joining her is an incredible roster of performers including Wanda Sykes, Alan Cumming, Harvey Fierstein, Norah Jones, Rosie O’Donnell and more. Girls may just wanna have fun, but Cyndi Lauper, time after time, does so much more.

By Matt Sigl