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Rodney Carrington wears a cowboy hat onstage, but it’s the stumpy one I’d call the “sidekick” hat, not the big rodeo cowboy’s or Western movie hero’s.

No one will argue with locals who may subtitle the Las Vegas stop of the “So You Think You Can Dance” tour “Better late than never.”

If you messed around for the past 15 years and never saw the Blue Man Group, the good news is you didn’t wait too long.

The spoofy ’80s jukebox musical “Rock of Ages” will relocate all fist-pumping and lighter-sparking activity to the Rio, reopening off-Strip on Jan. 25 after it ends three years at The Venetian on Jan. 3.

Ah, the stereotypes we must endure — and own up to. Why fight it when the live Las Vegas shows that Santa suit up for the holidays draw their tone from the TV Christmas specials we grew up on and, face it, aren’t quite like going to church, either.

A Blue Man can catch a marshmallow in his mouth just about anywhere. And that’s been an adaptive skill in Las Vegas, where the Blue Man Group became a 15-year institution but carved those years among three casino theaters.