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DON'T MISS!: TICKLED PINK It’s time to “Think Pink’’ with a gorgeous new digital restoration of Stanley Donen’s “Funny Face’’ (1957), screening in New York for one week starting today at Film Forum. Fred Astaire plays a fashion photographer based on Richard Avedon — credited as the film’s “special visual consultant.” Astaire discovers Audrey Hepburn in a Greenwich Village bookstore — so that Kay Thompson, channeling legendary magazine editor Diana Vreeland and unforgettably singing “Think Pink,” can whisk them off to Paris for romance and Gershwin songs, all in eye-popping Technicolor and VistaVision. The best MGM musical ever released by Paramount (it started out at MGM) is a must-see. West Houston and Varick streets. Info: filmforum.org — Lou Lumenick

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SEE THIS!: HAULING GLASS The Corning Museum of Glass loaded its 18-wheel, mobile GlassLab onto a barge docked at Staten Island and shipped it to Governors Island. There, they’ll host a series of improv glass-blowing demonstrations from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through July 29. Debuting tomorrow, three glass blowers, called “gaffers,” will create glass sculptures based on sketches cooked up by local artists. “Glass, as we work with it, is heated to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about the same temperature as lava from a volcano,” says museum operator Steve Gibbs. “It blows a bright yellowish orange and oozes and moves with heat and centrifugal force and gravity.” Governors Island’s Pershing Hall is a five-minute walk from where Brooklyn and Manhattan ferries arrive, and it’s all free. More info at govisland.com — Brian Niemietz

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CHECK IT OUT!: STARR TIME Ahh, the life of a rock star. Sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll — and drawing? As Ringo Starr turns 72 next Saturday, he’s added artist to his résumé, with bright, colorful whimsical drawings you’d expect from the drummer who was the goofy Beatle. About 40 of his works have gone on display at Pop International Galleries in SoHo. Instead of packing brushes with his drumsticks when he tours, Starr says he does all his drawing on his computer, iPad or iPhone. “It started because there was a lot of downtime in hotels,” he says. After Starr finishes a work, he gets by with a little help from his friends, who silkscreen or make giclée (fine-art inkjet) prints. The limited-editions are on sale, in the $1,500 to $3,000 range. And, says Starr, “It’s a really cool thing as all the money goes to charity [the Lotus Foundation].” 473 West Broadway; 212-533-4262, popinternational.com/ringo-starr — Billy Heller

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LAST CHANCE!: ‘JESUS’ ICED It was a pretty great resurrection, but it wasn’t meant to last: You only have three more days to catch the Broadway revival of “Jesus Christ Superstar” before it closes on Sunday. At least one person is seeing the silver lining, though, because playing one of history’s most notorious villains takes a toll. “I go through the wringer every night,” says Josh Young, whose Judas was a sexy bad boy. “It’s impossible to lead a regular life with this role — I just go home and go to bed, and not talk between shows to save my voice.” And Young will leave with cool mementos: a Tony nomination and biblical bling. “I’m going to try to keep Judas’ necklace, which has a hamsa —a hand of Fatima — on it,” he says. “I don’t even know if you can see it when I’m onstage, but it means a lot to the character.” At the Neil Simon Theatre, 250 W. 52nd St.; 212-757-8646 — Elisabeth Vincentelli

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LISTEN UP!: KICKOFF TIME Fresh from raising more than $1 million for upcoming album “Theatre Is Evil,” Kickstarter queen and Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer touches down in the city for an unusual pair of shows. Tonight at Littlefield, she’s on “Night of the Living With Kurt Braunohler,” which Palmer calls “a semi-scripted live comedy night.” What will she do? “I have no idea. I just told him I would show up with my ukulele,” Palmer says. And tomorrow: more noble aims. “On Kickstarter,” she says, referring to the Internet fund-raising site, “people could loan me a chunk of money I’d pay back after the record came out, and in exchange I’d perform a benefit concert for the cause of their choice.” As a result, the cabaret-punk singer will be playing to help keep the endangered South Street Seaport Museum afloat. Tonight: 8:30 at Littlefield, 622 Degraw St., Gowanus, Brooklyn; littlefieldnyc.com, $10 to $12. Tomorrow night: 7 p.m. at the South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St.; southstreetseaportmuseum.org, $55 — Charlie Heller