Our Friday best: Japanese Breakfast, 'Glensheen,' Shawn Mendes and 'Minotaur'

Rod Stewart

In an interview with Forbes this year, Sir Rod declared that this would be his last North American tour to survey his wide range of hits from "Maggie May" to "Young Turks." He's not retiring at age 77, but in the future he wants to tour with a big band and swing with the Great American Songbook. Fellow Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Cheap Trick, who impressed once again last year at the Lakefront Music Fest in Prior Lake, will get the evening rocking with "Surrender," "Dream Police" and "I Want You to Want Me." (7:30 p.m. Fri. Xcel Energy Center, 199 W. Kellogg Blvd., St Paul, $45.50-$665, ticketmaster.com)

JON BREAM

'Glensheen'

The record-breaking murder musical has been touring the state — including a stop in Duluth, where its events took place in 1977 — and now it's back for a sixth run at St. Paul's History Theatre, featuring most of its original cast. Played with tongues firmly in cheeks, it's a cheerful-but-macabre take on the tragic murder of Elisabeth Congdon in Glensheen Mansion, on the shores of Lake Superior. If you've somehow missed Jeffrey Hatcher and Chan Poling's charming show, now's your chance to catch up. (7:30 Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Fri., History Theatre, 30 E. 10th St., St. Paul, $40-$70, 651-292-4323 or historytheatre.com.)

CHRIS HEWITT

Japanese Breakfast & the Linda Lindas

CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER

Shawn Mendes

The Canadian heartthrob has been busy during the pandemic. He released his fourth studio album, "Wonder," in December 2020 along with a concert film and Netflix documentary, dropped a smash single "Monster" with Justin Bieber and — you probably heard — broke up with Camila Cabello in November 2021. He's since issued three new singles that haven't appeared on any albums. The 23-year-old pop star is only two weeks into his world tour, on which he's been offering two dozen songs nightly. Dermot Kennedy opens. (7 p.m. Sat. Xcel Energy Center, 199 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, $45.50-$467, ticketmaster.com)

J.B.

'The Parent Trap'

C.H.

The Black Crowes

After not speaking to each other for five years, brothers Chris and Rich Robinson seem to have finally found a remedy for their longstanding feuds and have been consistently touring for a year now with a mostly new lineup of their Atlanta-reared throwback-rock band. They're sticking to the oldies on tour, playing their 1990 debut album "Shake Your Money Maker" in its entirety followed by other '90s cuts. This will be their first Twin Cities date since 2013. (8 p.m. Mystic Lake Casino Amphitheater, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd. NW., Prior Lake, $49-$109, ticketmaster.com)

C.R.

'Minotaur'

SHEILA REGAN

University of Minnesota Summer Orchestra

Four doctoral students in conducting get an opportunity to show off their skills with this orchestra composed of musicians from the U and other local players who don't like to take the summer off. On the podium will be Jingqi Zhu, Hisham Bravo Groover, Andrew Kim and David Carrillo Siliezar, leading performances of the full-orchestra version of Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and works by Mexican composers Jose Pablo Moncayo and Arturo Marquez. (7:30 p.m. Friday; Ted Mann Concert Hall, 2128 S. 4th St., Mpls,; free; cla.umn.edu/music.)

ROB HUBBARD

Ridin' Old School