Question I heard that Cyndi was going to do a sitcom and because it didn't come about that she was going to make another CD. What can you tell me about this? Thank you in advance
Answer Cyndi was working on a sitcom and apparently even made a pilot but the execs that had initiated this with her at the network left and the new ones had no interest in her show. She is currently working on a new CD that should be out this year. Some of the demos from that CD are on Napster. I've included an article from 2000 that talks about her tv show and the other things that's she's been doing. I hope that I've answered your question. If you need more info or have other Cyndi questions please don't hesitate to ask.
Cyndi Lauper: She's Too Unusual for TV
Thursday, November 16, 2000
Television is not ready for a sitcom starring '80s pop icon Cyndi Lauper - at least not yet anyway. The actress/musician had been talking with NBC about starring in her own comedy series, but creative differences - coupled
with an executive shake-up at the Peacock - led to the project's collapse.
"It was a sitcom incorporating music and video... [but it] was too radical for what they wanted," Lauper tells TV guide Online. "They kept making it conform, conform, conform to their thing."
The departures of NBC execs Warren Littlefield and Bridget Potter - the latter of whom Lauper describes as "a great creative force behind what I was trying to do" - ultimately laid the idea to rest. But the colorful performer, who netted a 1995 Emmy for her recurring role as flamboyant
Marianne Lugasso on Mad About You, remains confident that the project will someday rise from the dead. "It will come," she insists. "There will be someplace that I can do that."
In the meantime, Lauper is focusing on her burgeoning film career (she received glowing reviews for her performance opposite Christopher Walken in The Opportunists), not to mention her true love, music. In fact, if anything good came out of the whole sitcom debacle, it was that it reminded her of where her true passion lies.
"I spent so much time [developing the show], that I lost my momentum for my music and I started to feel like, 'Hey, I don't feel good anymore,'" sighs the 47 year old, whose son, Declyn, turns 3 on Sunday. "I'm one of those
people [who has] got to sing. It makes me feel grounded."
To that end, the Grammy winner wrote and performed a song for Rugrats in Paris: The Movie and is currently in the studio recording a new album, due out next year. And although she hasn't come close to matching the commercial
success of 1983's She's So Unusual, Lauper admits that it hasn't been for lack of trying. "It's very hard to be successful and do something great, too," she says, "[but] that's what I always strive for... If you do something [you feel is] powerful, you want it to be heard."
- Michael Ausiello
