Cyndi Lauper

2023 - 4 - 5

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Dunedin bar welcomes Cyndi Lauper (Otago Daily Times)

The singer is in the city to perform at Sir Rod Stewart's concert at Forsyth Barr Stadium tonight. Woof! co-director Dudley Benson said co-director Josh Thomas ...

So we're so grateful to have her here." The visit had been over in about 15 minutes and while Lauper was not a drinker, her team would be going to the bar after the show, Mr Benson said. The bar had a gravestone embossed with ‘‘Trump’’ on it and Ms Lauper wanted to see it ‘‘and she loved it’’, Mr Benson said. Mr Benson said he wound up doing much of the talking, as Mr Thomas went into a semi-paralysis and could not say much. Mr Thomas had made journals, posters and even looked like her around the time she was famous for hit Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Mr Benson said. ‘‘An hour later we got a call from the manager saying Cyndi is going to come in now to meet you,’’ Mr Benson said.

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Pop icon Cyndi Lauper drops in for 'surreal' visit to Dunedin bar (Stuff.co.nz)

She taught me valuable lessons about being true to yourself and that it's OK to be different," Woof! co-owner and lifelong fan, Josh Thomas, said.

Thomas also used the opportunity to show Lauper a journal from when he was a teenager living in a room “plastered with Cyndi Lauper posters”. In the conversation that followed, Lauper was “very curious” about the city of Dunedin and seemed more than happy to chat, he said. * Thomas believed it was a combination of the prominently positioned sign in a central area of town, and the groundwork of “[putting] a few feelers out” that made her aware, and on Tuesday night Thomas hosted his 1980s hero in the bar he owns. [Rod Stewart adds Auckland show with Cyndi Lauper to New Zealand tour](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/300815171/rod-stewart-adds-auckland-show-with-cyndi-lauper-to-new-zealand-tour?rm=a) [Cyndi Lauper fan](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/300739321/its-like-being-home-rod-stewart-announces-longawaited-new-zealand-shows) – meeting the 1980s pop star on Tuesday was “surreal”.

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'This is not a Tony Bennett concert' Rod Stewart with Cyndi Lauper ... (Stuff.co.nz)

Dunedin was shown its true colours, from the technicolour of Cyndi Lauper to the sequins of Sir Rod Stewart.

* Luckily this concert was held under a full moon, and things were about to get reflective with Stewart paying homage to the late Stewart seemed genuinely appreciative of the reaction to that cover, ‘’normally that dies a slow death’’. Once she clarified that ‘’this is not a Tony Bennett concert’’, she gave the instruction for the dancing to continue, as long as people cleared the aisles and stayed away from barriers. Soon everyone was on their feet and dancing in the aisles, but that proved a problem a few minutes into I Drove All Night, when she stopped the music to direct a question to ‘’Mr Green Security Man’’. And she gave the crowd extra during a foot-stomping 11-song set, urging the seated crowd to ‘’get the f*** up’’.

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