7 Days: Regional arts and entertainment

Sunday

Funny feet The delightful comedian Jen Childs confronts her lifelong pursuit of terpsichorean greatness in her slapstick piece Why I'm Scared of Dance. The one-woman show goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday at Act II Playhouse, 56 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, and continues with shows at 2 and 8 p.m. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and 2 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $22 to $33. Call 215-654-0200.

The amazing race Jules Verne's 19th-century Around the World in 80 Days, about a circumnavigation via balloon, is still one of the great adventures. The original steampunk thriller goes on at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., and continues on a Tuesday-through-Sunday schedule to Feb. 3. Tickets are $30 to $40. Call 215-574-3550.

Chamber music The elegant clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois plays works by Brahms, Debussy, Bartok, Kinan Azmeh, and Jerome Langlois at 3 p.m. at the Trinity Center for Urban Life, 2212 Spruce St. Tickets are $20; $18 seniors; $5 students. Call 215-735-6999. . . . The outstanding bass Matthew Rose performs Schubert's intense and moving song cycle Winterreise at 3 p.m. at the Curtis Institute of Music's Field Concert Hall, 1726 Locust St. Tickets are $28. Call 215-893-7902.

Monday

Never forget In David Fisher's 2011 documentary Six Million and One, the filmmaker chronicles his efforts to investigate the memoir of his Holocaust survivor father, despite the reluctance of his siblings. The Jewish Film Festival screens the film at 7:30 p.m. at the Gershman Y, 401 S. Broad St. Tickets are $7.50 to $15. Call 215-545-4400.

Tuesday

Dinner and movie Robert Aldrich's 1974 comedy The Longest Yard, about a former pro quarterback forced to take part in a prison football game, is one of the best gridiron films ever made. The film, preceded by a Tailgate Cook-off and tasting at 5:30 p.m., screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $20.50 for tasting and film; $10:50 for film only. Call 610-527-9898.

Wednesday

Going to a Go-Go The invaluable Secret Cinema presents another collection of Exotica Music Films drawn from TV shows, theatrical shorts, industrial and educational films, and film jukeboxes. Among the offerings: the Jimmy Smith organ trio and Astrud Gilberto in clips from 1964's Get Yourself a College Girl; Pan-Am's technicolor, Calypso-driven 1958 dream-vacation short New Horizons: Caribbean; selections from 1960s Belgian keyboard player André Brasseur's psychedelic TV special; and a 1954 musical short, Hawaiian Nights, featuring comedian Pinky Lee and the statuesque Mamie Van Doren. The films screen at 8 p.m. at the Trestle Inn, 11th and Callowhill Streets. Tickets are $7. Call 267-239-0290.

Thursday

The big sound Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in works by Wagner and Bruckner at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, Broad and Spruce Streets, at 8 p.m. Thursday and 2 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $26 to $124. Call 215-893-1999.

Chamber pop The baroque rock combo Ra Ra Riot, now minus amicably departed cellist Alexandra Lawn, has added a synth sound to strings in the engine that drives their pop gems. They play at 8 p.m. at Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. Tickets are $17. Call 215-232-2100.

Keeping the beat Drummer Billy Cobham, a pioneer of jazz fusion, played with Miles Davis and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and his 1973 solo album Spectrum is one of the seminal albums of the era. He plays it again at 7:30 p.m. at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville. Tickets are $19.50 to $34.50. Call 610-917-1228.

Friday & Saturday

Kid stuff The live version of the surreal children's TV show Yo Gabba Gabba!, featuring our fave cyclops Muno and rapper Biz Markie, goes on at the Tower Theater, 69th Street and Ludlow Street, Upper Darby, at 3 and 6 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $19.50 to $46. Call 800-745-3000.

Looking back Sensational singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys performs his classic 1981 New Wave album Escape Artist (yeah, that one with "Christine" and the great cover of "96 Tears") in its entirety at the Sellersville Theater 1894, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville, at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $29.50 and $40. Call 215-257-5808.