Musical is the ‘Mighty Real’ deal for disco fans

Anybody who’s ever listened to WKTU, danced at a disco, marched in a gay-pride parade or watched Project Runway should get a ticket to Mighty Real. True, this new jukebox musical about Sylvester — the immortal voice of “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” and “Do You Wanna Funk?” — isn’t a great show. But it’s a fun one — and that’s rarer than you’d think. Let’s get the quibbles out of the way. Anthony Wayne, who stars and wrote the book, retraces Sylvester’s “journey of phenomenal heights and some interesting lows” from his birth in 1947 to his death from AIDS in 1988. In between we’re given some perfunctory biographical references and a lot of earnest sentiment about battling adversity and finding one’s true self. Sylvester’s infamous backup singers, Izora Armstead (Anastacia McCleskey) and Martha Wash (Jacqueline B. Arnold) — later known as the Weather Girls, of “It’s Raining Men” fame — get a welcome nod, especially when the three launch into a crazy diva battle on “You Are My Friend.”