Cyndi Lauper gets her 'Body' on stage this fall

Cyndi Lauper keeps up her support for last year's "The Body Acoustic," the '80s icon's first unplugged album, during a fall tour that kicks off next month.

The singer has lined up about two-dozen shows that begin on the West Coast in mid-September and wrap up in the Northeast in late October. Details are included below.

Released last November, "The Body Acoustic" features unplugged renditions of nine previously released songs, as well as two new cuts. According to a press release, Lauper got the idea to do the album while playing a number of benefit concerts, which she pared down to an acoustic setting to help lower the benefit-sponsor's expenses.

"I was talking with [A&R executive] David Massey, and I realized that I'd never recorded anything like what we were doing live," Lauper said in a statement. "I wanted to do a really good acoustic recording of 'Time After Time'--but I didn't want to just make a 'best of' record. So I decided to take a lot of songs that I love, whether they were hits or should have been hits or were new, and put them into this style."

"The Body Acoustic" follows Lauper's 2004 concert DVD "Live ... At Last." Filmed during her March 11, 2004 performance in New York City, the disc features a number of her '80-era hits--such as "True Colors," "She Bop," "Time After Time" and "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"--as well as material from her most recent studio set, "At Last."

Released in 2003, "At Last" features Lauper's renditions of classic hits including The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody," Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Walk on By," Smokey Robinson's "You Really Got a Hold On Me," and the title track, originally made famous by Etta James.

Special guests on "At Last" include Tony Bennett on "Makin' Whoopie," and Stevie Wonder, who plays harmonica on "Until You Come Back to Me," a track he once recorded himself.

TOUR DATES
 tour dates and tickets
September 2006
15 - San Francisco, CA - Palace of Fine Arts
16 - Bakersfield, CA - Fox Theater
17 - Agoura Hills, CA - Canyon Club
19 - Pala, CA - Pala Casino
20 - Alpine, CA - Viejas Casino
22 - Las Vegas, NV - Sunset Station Casino
23 - Lake Tahoe, NV - Montbleu Resort
24 - Park City, UT - Eccles Center for the Performing Arts
26 - Phoenix, AZ - Celebrity Theater
27 - Albuquerque, NM - Sandia Casino
29 - Dallas, TX - Lakewood Theatre
30 - Austin, TX - Paramount Theatre

October 2006
1 - Houston, TX - Cullen Auditorium
3 - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theater
5 - Saint Louis, MO - The Pageant
6 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
7 - Madison, WI - Orpheum Theater
9 - Saint Paul, MN - The O'Shaughnessy
10, 11 - Milwaukee, WI - Potawatomi Casino
13, 14 - Rama, Ontario - Casino Rama
17 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live
18 - Verona, NY - Turning Stone Casino
20 - Englewood, NJ - Bergen Performing Arts Center
21 - Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues
22 - Mashantucket, CT - Foxwoods Casino

 tour dates and tickets
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