Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
August 27, 2002
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. And that's how it started with Cindy Lauper showing her True Colors--from a wheel chair. She said it was an accident from a motorized device, but that's private. Cindy wheeled back and forth, singing into a microphone clipped to her boa-clad wheelchair. It was eerily like a scene from "Drop Dead Gorgeous", and just enough to get the audience warmed up for the super star of the evening--Cher.
With the rise of the curtain, the star of the night descended on a chandelier looking like a Department 56 collectable. Something right out of a snow globe. Within minutes she had stripped down to nothing more than a Vegas-style rhinestone grandma.
This is Cher's last tour. Do You Believe? Living Proof. A Farewell Tour of sorts. The audience booed and hissed as she announced the beginning of the end. "Come on," Cher said to me, and an audience of several thousand Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, "I've been a friggin' Diva for forty friggin' years."
If there is a person who can make eight entrances in 90 minutes toting a different hairstyle and color every time, it is Cher. And that is what makes the Farewell Tour the Cher-est Show on The Earth.
I have this theory about Cher, and how, in her mid-50s, she's able to change costumes eight times for eight different entrances in an hour-and-a-half performance. And, it's inspired by the popular children's toy-Mr. Potato Head.
For me, tonight, as I Turn Back Time replaying the concert in my head, I think the image that will stay with me, and it will stick for quite a while, was Cher's exposed half-century-old buttock on a 50-foot Jumbo-Tron, reverberating to the overwhelming base. Oh, how Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
8/27/02
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