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disneydream06Okay, Now back to Wednesday...
Drove up to Minneapolis for the Cyndi Lauper/Cher concert. I left extra early because of the construction zones and figuring I would probably have some "rush hour" traffic to deal with. Traffic wasn't too bad, and two out of the four construction zones were now open. :)
I got up to the parking ramp and had my signal light on and was waiting for the sidewalk to clear to pull in and just as I went to pull in another car pulled around in front of me. I nearly hit her. The people in the car gave me this innocent look of like, What is your problem. I so wanted to pull up next to her when she parked and chew her a new one, but I didn't. I sat and read in the car for about a half hour and then headed over to the Target Center. I got in line and waited to be frisked. Not really sure what they were looking for, because she could feel the stuff in my pockets, but didn't ask what it was or to see it. :p
I went through the entrance for people sitting on the floor. I wanted to check out the souvenier stand for some Cyndi Lauper things. I had already ordered my Cher stuff online. Now if it would just show up. UGH......... Of course the nearest souvenier table was upstairs away from the entrance to floor seating. So I went up and got in "line". After all these years of going to concerts, you would think they would have come up with a more organized system. It would also help if they had more people working the stand. :o I picked up a shirt, cd, and album. :) It's the 30th Anniversary of Cyndi's She's So Unusual album. With about 10 minutes until the scheduled start of the show I made my way back down to my seat. I was in section 3 of the floor seating. Row 6 seat 9. YAY me. :) The row was almost empty when I got there, and didn't really start to fill up until the the show was starting. If you pay good money for a show, why don't you show up in time to see it?
Cyndi entered from the back of the arena walking through the audience. :) She is not unusual, she is amazing. :) She was wearing, what I assumed was, a bright red wig and looked and sounded GREAT. She sang a lot of her old hits in celebration of the anniversary of She's So Unusual. Cyndi can still rock it out. During her set, she came down into the audience again while singing one of her songs. I think Cyndi is the only person I have ever seen do that. She performed for a good hour. The only disappointment for me, she didn't sing True Colors.
There was about a 20 minute intermission. The guy to my left showed up with just a few minutes left in Cyndi's set. During intermission he asks me if I was alone? Yes. He then asks if I would be willing to switch places with his friend. When they bought the tickets they "didn't realize" they weren't together. Really? He assured me that his friend's seat was just in the next floor section and one row back. I told him, maybe. When his friend showed up and showed me his ticket I reluctantly agreed. Just a little leary of being scammed, but I figured the only way he should have been able to get down on the floor was if he had a good ticket. Some how the one row back turned into two. The rows must have been lined up funny. The good thing about the new seat was that it much more centered with the stage. :)
Towards the end of intermission we heard Cher's voice asking how we were doing. Everybody screamed. She said, okay, well I will be right out. lol...
The show started with projections of photographs from Cher's life projected on the stage curtain. The curtain came down, and Cher was standing on top of a 20 foot pillar dressed up in a costume that resembled something Egyptian with a big feathered head dress. The pillar lowered down and she sang a couple of songs before exiting to change costumes. Before exiting, she talked to the crowd about how this was her final tour, which of course we the audience didn't want to hear. Then she started to "wink" that she wouldn't be back and as she pledge that this was the end, she turned to leave the stage and you could see she was holding her hand behind her back with her fingers crossed. lol........
Cher kept the same basic concept for this show as she has with the tour. Live performane mixed with projections from her past. This show seemed even more theatrical. Using the dancers on stage and the big projection screen behind it they set the mood for different songs. Like for the song Dress to Kill they did like a little movie setting up Cher to protray a vampire. Then she came out on stage in that costume hunting for her next victim.
Some of the sets included a circus setting for Gypsies Tramps and Thieves/Dark Lady/Half Breed. Another was a big Trojan Horse that Cher came out of. :) She had a Burlesque set to sing her two songs from the movie Burlesque. For the closing song, I Hope You Find It, she stood on a platform that kind of looked like a window frame from an Indian Mosque or something, and it raised her up over the audience. Of course just going up over the audience wasn't enough for Cher, the platform carried her all the way to the back of the arena before coming back to the stage.
Cher performed for about an hour and a half. A slight disappointment like with Cyndi, neither of them performed an encore. :(
Drove up to Minneapolis for the Cyndi Lauper/Cher concert. I left extra early because of the construction zones and figuring I would probably have some "rush hour" traffic to deal with. Traffic wasn't too bad, and two out of the four construction zones were now open. :)
I got up to the parking ramp and had my signal light on and was waiting for the sidewalk to clear to pull in and just as I went to pull in another car pulled around in front of me. I nearly hit her. The people in the car gave me this innocent look of like, What is your problem. I so wanted to pull up next to her when she parked and chew her a new one, but I didn't. I sat and read in the car for about a half hour and then headed over to the Target Center. I got in line and waited to be frisked. Not really sure what they were looking for, because she could feel the stuff in my pockets, but didn't ask what it was or to see it. :p
I went through the entrance for people sitting on the floor. I wanted to check out the souvenier stand for some Cyndi Lauper things. I had already ordered my Cher stuff online. Now if it would just show up. UGH......... Of course the nearest souvenier table was upstairs away from the entrance to floor seating. So I went up and got in "line". After all these years of going to concerts, you would think they would have come up with a more organized system. It would also help if they had more people working the stand. :o I picked up a shirt, cd, and album. :) It's the 30th Anniversary of Cyndi's She's So Unusual album. With about 10 minutes until the scheduled start of the show I made my way back down to my seat. I was in section 3 of the floor seating. Row 6 seat 9. YAY me. :) The row was almost empty when I got there, and didn't really start to fill up until the the show was starting. If you pay good money for a show, why don't you show up in time to see it?
Cyndi entered from the back of the arena walking through the audience. :) She is not unusual, she is amazing. :) She was wearing, what I assumed was, a bright red wig and looked and sounded GREAT. She sang a lot of her old hits in celebration of the anniversary of She's So Unusual. Cyndi can still rock it out. During her set, she came down into the audience again while singing one of her songs. I think Cyndi is the only person I have ever seen do that. She performed for a good hour. The only disappointment for me, she didn't sing True Colors.
There was about a 20 minute intermission. The guy to my left showed up with just a few minutes left in Cyndi's set. During intermission he asks me if I was alone? Yes. He then asks if I would be willing to switch places with his friend. When they bought the tickets they "didn't realize" they weren't together. Really? He assured me that his friend's seat was just in the next floor section and one row back. I told him, maybe. When his friend showed up and showed me his ticket I reluctantly agreed. Just a little leary of being scammed, but I figured the only way he should have been able to get down on the floor was if he had a good ticket. Some how the one row back turned into two. The rows must have been lined up funny. The good thing about the new seat was that it much more centered with the stage. :)
Towards the end of intermission we heard Cher's voice asking how we were doing. Everybody screamed. She said, okay, well I will be right out. lol...
The show started with projections of photographs from Cher's life projected on the stage curtain. The curtain came down, and Cher was standing on top of a 20 foot pillar dressed up in a costume that resembled something Egyptian with a big feathered head dress. The pillar lowered down and she sang a couple of songs before exiting to change costumes. Before exiting, she talked to the crowd about how this was her final tour, which of course we the audience didn't want to hear. Then she started to "wink" that she wouldn't be back and as she pledge that this was the end, she turned to leave the stage and you could see she was holding her hand behind her back with her fingers crossed. lol........
Cher kept the same basic concept for this show as she has with the tour. Live performane mixed with projections from her past. This show seemed even more theatrical. Using the dancers on stage and the big projection screen behind it they set the mood for different songs. Like for the song Dress to Kill they did like a little movie setting up Cher to protray a vampire. Then she came out on stage in that costume hunting for her next victim.
Some of the sets included a circus setting for Gypsies Tramps and Thieves/Dark Lady/Half Breed. Another was a big Trojan Horse that Cher came out of. :) She had a Burlesque set to sing her two songs from the movie Burlesque. For the closing song, I Hope You Find It, she stood on a platform that kind of looked like a window frame from an Indian Mosque or something, and it raised her up over the audience. Of course just going up over the audience wasn't enough for Cher, the platform carried her all the way to the back of the arena before coming back to the stage.
Cher performed for about an hour and a half. A slight disappointment like with Cyndi, neither of them performed an encore. :(
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Date: 2014-06-13 11:02 am (UTC)Thank you for sharing all these photos - wow. You had amazing seats. So glad you got to go.
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Date: 2014-06-13 11:07 am (UTC)You sound like my friend
Only thing I can think of was she was concentrating on songs from her first album for it's anniversary, other then a couple of other songs that she sang.
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Date: 2014-06-13 11:40 am (UTC)This was the 4th time I have seen her perform. Once way back on her original She's So Unusual Tour, then twice with Cher, and once during Minneapolis Pride. :)
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Date: 2014-06-13 11:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-13 11:44 am (UTC)Yep, 6 times for Cher and 4 for Cyndi. :)
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Date: 2014-06-13 11:55 am (UTC)One I didn't was The Eurythmics. :(
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Date: 2014-06-16 12:52 am (UTC)Last showing at the Galaxy is 9:20 if your are free by then. lol.......
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Date: 2014-06-13 12:05 pm (UTC)Nope she didn't sing that song either. :(
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Date: 2014-06-13 04:12 pm (UTC)they are women "of an age" - as far as performers are concerned - and both doing their thing
gives those of us who refused to fade away a good feeling
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Date: 2014-06-13 06:52 pm (UTC)Great Pics!!!
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Date: 2014-06-13 07:11 pm (UTC)I saw a lot of images on FB of these sets and costumes a few weeks ago when she was in Raleigh. I can't imagine having to set up and take down all that. It must be incredibly well-organized, I'm sure that's some complex staging.
I think they had something like an ice hockey game the very next day... wowzers...
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Date: 2014-06-14 11:14 am (UTC)There were two smallish "jumbotrons" on each side of the stage.
As soon as the lights came up at the end, the crew was out on stage starting to take things down. :o
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Date: 2014-06-14 06:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-14 11:17 am (UTC)Did she come over there for her "farewell" tour?
Hopefully she will bring this one over.
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Date: 2014-06-14 08:06 am (UTC)Too bad none of them did an encore. Damn...
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Date: 2014-06-14 11:19 am (UTC)So often the opening act is forgetable, but not Cyndi. :)
I would have loved to have been able to share it with you. :)
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Date: 2014-06-14 03:34 pm (UTC)WOW!
Date: 2014-06-16 12:48 am (UTC)Your photos look great. Glad you enjoyed the concert!
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Date: 2014-06-16 12:50 am (UTC)I have some videos that I will hopefully get posted tonight. :)