SEE IT

“Disaster!” has one ambition, and that’s to make you laugh — no pun is too low, no gag too obvious. And it works, especially for fans of shamelessly silly shows a la “Xanadu.”

This clever jukebox musical — the score is wall-to-wall ’70s hits — got its start in a low-ceilinged off-Broadway theater, which is perfect for a zany spoof of 1970s disaster movies such as “The Poseidon Adventure” and “The Swarm.”

Somehow it’s ended up on Broadway with a sterling new ensemble that includes pro hams Faith Prince, Kerry Butler and Roger Bart. Original “Rent” hunk Adam Pascal is also onboard as a marooned waiter, while Rachel York has a blast as a breathy bombshell singer with Farrah Fawcett hair.

Luckily, Jennifer Simard returns as Sister Mary, a nun with a gambling addiction. Her rendition of “Never Can Say Goodbye” while fondling a “Hawaii Five-O” slot machine is the single funniest four minutes in town. At the Nederlander Theatre.

SKIP IT

Boxing stories always seem the same: drama followed by a climactic fight. In Marco Ramirez’s new play “The Royale,” the fighter is based on African-American heavyweight champ Jack Johnson, who in 1908 became the first to vanquish a white opponent for a world title.

But Ramirez tries something different. Here, the final opponent doesn’t quite look like what we expected, and the action is stylized throughout — with a wooden square of a ring and no actual punches thrown. As directed by Rachel Chavkin (“Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812”), this Lincoln Center Theater production is a laudable but dramatically tepid effort, burdened with perfunctory, heavy-handed “poetic” writing. At the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater through May 1.