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Movies

Eddie Murphy makes like Alec Guinness (who played eight roles in “Kind Hearts and Coronets”) playing six different roles in “Nutty Professor II: The Klumps,” the sequel to the 1996 box-office hit. Peter Segal (“My Fellow Americans”) directs, in addition to the many Murphys, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller and Jamal Mixon.

* “Nutty Professor II: The Klumps,” rated PG-13, opens Friday in general release.

10am

Movie Lore

Two new exhibitions, one featuring watercolor paintings and the other composed of movie posters, present a historical look at America’s cinema history in “Dong Kingman: An American Master in Hollywood” and “Film Posters: Highlights of Recent Acquisitions,” opening Friday at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Watercolors by Kingman that set visual moods in such films as “Flower Drum Song,” “The Sand Pebbles” and “The Desperados” will be featured along with more than 50 movie posters from “Citizen Kane,” “Cleopatra” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

* “Dong Kingman: An American Master in Hollywood Film” and “Film Posters: Highlights of Recent Acquisitions,” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. Ends Sept. 24. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, noon-6 p.m. Free. (310) 247-3600.

7pm

Pop Music

Only an established favorite with a liking for live performance and a fanatically loyal audience would do what the Dave Matthews Band is doing this summer: undertake a concert tour without a new album to promote. The singer-guitarist and his group won’t have a new disc until late November, but in the meantime, they’re on the road again.

* Dave Matthews Band, with Medeski, Martin & Wood, Coors Amphitheatre, 2050 Otay Valley Road, Chula Vista, 7 p.m. $33.50 to $48.50. (619) 671-3600. Also Saturday at Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion, 2575 Glen Helen Parkway, Devore. 7 p.m. $27 to $42. (909) 886-8742.

8pm

Pop Music

Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton have come and gone, and singer Keith Relf died in 1976, but the Yardbirds, the British Invasion’s masters of over-under-sideways-down blues and the fountainhead of guitar heroes, are back for another round. Original drummer Jim McCarty and rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja anchor the lineup.

* The Yardbirds, the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, 8 p.m. $19.50. (949) 496-8927. Also Saturday at B.B. King’s Blues Club, CityWalk, Universal City, 8 p.m. $10. (818) 622-5464.

7:30 pm

Movies

The 10th annual UCLA Film and Television Archive Festival of Preservation opens at the Directors Guild of America with the 1984 Oscar-winning documentary “The Times of Harvey Milk.” The San Francisco gay-rights activist, assassinated by Board of Supervisors member Dan White in 1978, became a martyr as 45,000 marchers mourned his death with a candlelight vigil and crowds rioted protesting White’s light sentence. The fact that Robert Epstein’s moving film, though relatively recent, is in need of preservation only proves to reinforce the importance of the archive’s work. All other screenings will be on the UCLA campus.

* UCLA Film and Television Archive Festival of Preservation screening of “The Times of Harvey Milk,” Directors Guild of America, 7920 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.. $4 to $6. Saturday, “The Power and the Glory,” with “The Sin of Nora Moran” and the short “The Hard Guy,” James Bridges Theater, 302 E. Melnitz, Westwood. 7:30 p.m. The festival runs through Aug. 26. (310) 206-8013.

8pm

Theater

Cabrillo Music Theatre presents “Fiddler on the Roof,” the classic Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick musical about a poor villager and his five daughters in czarist Russia, based on stories by Sholom Aleichem.

* “Fiddler on the Roof,” Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Fridays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2 p.m. Ends Aug. 6. $14 to $32. (805) 583-8700, (213) 480-3232, (714) 740-2000, (805) 449-2787.

FREEBIE

Five museums will open their doors free of charge for “Pasadena Art Night,” 6-10 p.m. Shuttle service between museums will be provided. Information: https://www.artcenter.edu/artnight. The Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, (626) 792-5101; Art Center College of Design, 1700 Lida St., Pasadena, (626) 396-2244; Norton Simon Museum, 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, (626) 449-6840); Pasadena Art Space at One Colorado, 25 and 43 N. Fair Oaks Ave., (626) 564-1066 and Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, (626) 449-2742).