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Inside track: Elizabeth I takes the stage, plus — a Mountain Jam, a dance party, a free park concert and more fun
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TODAY
Show tunes
Theater geeks unite when the Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, plays your favorite show tunes during the Broadway Rave dance party at 9 p.m. Friday; $18; axs.com.
Film
An unexpected conversation unfolds when a young woman gets into a cab with an older cabbie in “Daddio,” starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, playing at 4 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Boedecker cinema in the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $12; thedairy.org.
Dance party
Get a free lesson in swing dancing at 7 p.m., then dance the night away from 7:45 p.m. onward during Niwot’s Dancing Under the Stars party at Cottonwood Square, 7960 Niwot Road; free; niwot.com.
WEEKEND
Stage
Actress Tamara Meneghini brings a powerful monarch to life in the one-woman show “Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words” at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette; $25; brownpapertickets.com.
Vocal group
Started deep in apartheid-era South Africa, the vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo has been performing in different iterations for more than six decades, and the group lands on the stage at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $30-$40; axs.com.
Mountain Jam
This year’s annual KGNU Charles Sawtelle Memorial Mountain Jam’s lineup includes Sally Van Meter, The Natalie Padilla Band, Bryan Dubrow and more, and the show takes place beginning at noon Sunday outdoors at the Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill; $40-$45; goldhillinn.com.
FUTURE
Stage
The national tour of the beloved Broadway musical “Wicked” — a tale that imagines the backstory to the witches in “The Wizard of Oz” — returns to the Buell Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, for performances Wednesday through Aug. 25; $45-$189; denvercenter.org.
FREE
Cultural tunes
Kutandara fuses African musical tradition with indie-pop, rock, jazz and gospel, and the group plays at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Carr Park, 1301 21st Ave., Longmont; free; longmontcolorado.gov.
KIDS
Video games
Teens can join friends and make new ones during the Teen Gaming Club event from 2-3 p.m. today, playing Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart, at the city of Longmont Public Library, 409 4th Ave., Longmont; free; downtownlongmont.com.
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