Cyndi Lauper

Perhaps destined to be best-known for letting rubber-band-fetishizing wrestler Captain Lou Albano know that “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” Cyndi Lauper has had an intriguing but too unheralded career. The onetime platinum seller debuted to good notices on Broadway this past March in a production of The Threepenny Opera. Too bad the critics were about as kind to the revival itself as they were to the 1988 movie Vibes, in which Lauper starred as a psychic opposite Jeff Goldblum. We think. Mostly we remember the flick for the kick-ass single “Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China).” Thankfully, Cyndi’s 2005 album, The Body Acoustic, is getting much better reviews for her reinterpretations of past favorites, showing that, ’80s be damned, she’s still a performer of amazing depth. Bummer it doesn’t have that Vibes song on it, though. <