Cyndi Lauper Auction Sells Out, Las Vegas Return Confirmed for 2027
Cyndi Lauper is closing one chapter of her archive and opening another stage. In a recent "Then and Now" sit-down with Entertainment Tonight, she talked about auctioning more than 300 outfits and personal items from her four-decade career and confirmed that she is heading back to Las Vegas next year. The auction, titled "Cyndi Lauper: Suitcase of Memories," ran Oct. 22 and 23 at Bonhams in New York and was timed to the 40th anniversary of "True Colors." According to ET, the collection sold out, and one of the standout looks went for nearly $6,000. For Lauper, who finished her farewell tour in 2025 but is far from done performing, the sale is a way to show people the thinking behind the fashion.
She explained that the pieces had been sitting in storage and that it was simply time to share them. What she hopes visitors feel is the era behind them: a wild, creative moment in rock and roll, when people improvised and took risks, which she contrasted with today's more corporate, dumbed-down culture. She worked again with the collaborator who created the newspaper skirt from the "True Colors" video and said finding the skirt was a big deal. The newspaper skirt and the leopard-print pajamas from the "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" era were among the items offered, and she joked that the pajamas were a little tattered but belonged to Nana.
The Las Vegas news came near the end of the conversation. Lauper confirmed she is going back next year and said she is changing a few things about the show, though she did not elaborate. Caesars has announced 10 dates at The Colosseum, Feb. 19 to 27 and Sept. 3 to 11, 2027, extending the residency she launched this year. It also matters that these shows follow a retirement from touring rather than a retirement from the stage.
ET also used the interview to revisit its first conversation with her from 1984, and Lauper filled in details that explain why her early work looked the way it did. The "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" video was made on very little money, she said, with friends, hairstylists, and makeup artists bringing their own clothes and talent, and she shared her makeup so freely that she ended up with pinkeye. Her mother appears in the video because the woman they first approached wanted to be paid and they could not afford it. Lauper asked her mom, reasoning that the video works better if a mother and daughter who get along are on screen, and she talked about coming from a long line of strong women. She also said she did not hear the song on the radio at first because a top programmer had written that her voice was too high for top 40 or album radio.
She was equally candid about "Time After Time," her second single. The label did not want her writing it, since she had become good at arranging other people's songs, and she said she hoped the hit would prove she could write and would convince the label to let her do more of it. She also reflected on "Life with Mikey," the 1993 comedy with Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane. Fox was producing as well as starring, she noted, which made for a hard job, and she mostly remembered spending time with Lane. Taken together, the interview is a reminder that the archive going to new owners and the shows still on her calendar come from the same person, who, by her own account, has always pushed to do things her way.
