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Are you a fan of the 80s music sensation, Cyndi Lauper? If so, you’ll be delighted to know that a museum dedicated to her life and career has just opened in Orlando. The Cyndi Lauper Museum is the first museum to honor the singer-songwriter’s career and musical legacy. 

You can find hundreds of items used by Cyndi Lauper in the museum , such as her famous stage costumes, guitars, awards, and much more. You can also watch live performances from the singer and listen to some of her best tracks.

The museum also features interactive exhibits that take visitors on a journey through Cyndi Lauper’s life and career. Fans will get an inside look at the creative process behind some of her most popular songs and albums.

This is a short video made by Celebrity Glorious about Cyndi Lauper. The video talks about her career and provide interesting updates all the way to 2020. Enjoy!

Cyndi Lauper

Design by Janet Perr

The primary color-rich cover of Lauper’s debut perfectly caught her bubbly persona.

“Cyndi kept saying how she wanted peeling paint and walls that looked distressed,” recalls designer Janet Perr, “and I thought Coney Island. I knew that there were a lot of abandoned, boarded up buildings there. And of course, because it was by the beach, the lighting would be really beautiful.

“We were on the boardwalk with a boom box, and Cyndi had on a great vintage dress, and she was dancing with her shoes off. She was really like that – flouncy and jumping around – and I think that really came out in the photo shoot.”

Annie Leibovitz snapped Lauper in a pose like a new wave marionette.

The result: 16 million albums sold and a Grammy for design to Perr. “It was a great thing for me,” Perr recalls, “because the Rolling Stones called the week after.”

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Have you heard the one about the drag queen and the shoemaker? Those are the central characters in the cult 2005 British comedy Kinky Boots, the latest movie to get the Broadway jazz-hand treatment. With music and lyrics by ’80s pop star Cyndi Lauper and a book by Newsies‘ Harvey Fierstein, the eccentric transatlantic export is set to head to the Great White Way in spring 2013 — but you don’t have to wait until then to hear what Lauper has up her legwarmer!

EW has an exclusive first listen of “Sex Is in the Heel,” the first song released from Lauper’s debut theatrical score. The song will be available for free download starting June 22 at 10:30 a.m. on the show’s official website. If you prefer a live rendition, Lauper will perform the song at this Sunday’s New York Pride Parade (where she’ll serve as Grand Marshal). Get your first earful of a remixed version of “Sex” below!

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In Kinky Boots, a sassy drag queen named Lola becomes the unlikely savior for Charlie Price, a shoemaker whose family business is falling flat. Lola shakes things up when she sashays into Charlie’s life and inspires him to transform his shoe line into fetish footwear for transvestites, revitalizing both the business and the entire community.
Tony winner Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde) will direct and choreograph the show, which will play Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre from October 2 through Nov. 4, 2012, in anticipation of a Broadway opening in 2013.