Girls just wanna have fun. But women in 2025 just wanna have their fundamental rights.

In what is being billed as her farewell tour, a radiant, 72-year-old Cyndi Lauper claimed her full, cumulative power Tuesday in an epic, joyful, multigenerational concert at a nearly full Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Greenwood Village.

Deftly shifting between her “aw shucks” blue-collar borough persona and a potent and glamorous example of the American immigrant dream realized, Lauper uplifted, encouraged, inspired, charmed and dazzled a mixed crowd made up almost entirely of people younger than she is.

That’s staying power. That’s legacy.

"There was no way I wasn't going to come and say goodbye to you guys," she said to cheers.

Lauper, making her first appearance in Denver since touring with

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