Out Of The Blue Rockers

Out of The Blue Lyrics, Blue Rockers: Tragic art For us, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is the pinnacle of operatic achievement. Add challenging stage design by sculptor Jun Kaneko to the tale of a geisha’s doomed love affair with a naval officer, and you have something near perfection. The Opera Company of Philadelphia production goes on at the Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Friday, and 2:30 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $7 to $210. Call 215-893-1018.

Sex ed Billy Aronson’s comedy The First Day of School takes the conventions of the farce and moves them to the suburbs, with a quintet of soccer moms (and dads) rediscovering their libidos after the kids go back to the classroom. The 1812 Productions show goes on at 2 p.m. at Plays and Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St., and continues on a Wednesday-through-Sunday schedule to Oct. 25. Tickets are $20 to $35. Call 215-592-9560. . . . In the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, two con men preying on lonely hearts on the Riviera make a bet as to who can first fleece an American heiress. The show goes on at 2 p.m. at the Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St., and continues on a Tuesday-through-Sunday schedule to Oct. 25. Tickets