Premiering for just three days at the People’s Building on June 6, June 7, and June 9, Disko Boy features Denver’s own queer and disabled drag artist Hans L’Adida, whose signature moves have been said to “put the ‘daddy’ in granddaddy.” With a run time of just under an hour, Boy is part experimental theater, part drag show, and part comedy musical. If cults weren’t weird, Disko Boy would be your new favorite cult classic.
What happens when you sit down on a bench next to an unusually fit old man with a German accent and curtail the impulse to leave when he starts telling you his life story? What happened to the almost Olympic sport of ski ballet? What does a broken heart and kefir have to do with keeping your spirit alive? What do social movements of the past tell us about how to rage against the machine of the present? What would happen if you got adopted by an elder for an afternoon at the park? Is it loneliness if everyone else is feeling it too?
Disko Boy sets to music the story of a former professional athlete disillusioned with authority who emerges from life’s betrayals with his politics intact to hype up the next generation of anti-war activists. Meet Hans L’Adida, a man who has lived through the collapse of communism, had been betrayed by the Olympic Committee, and chased women only to find out that the love of his life may not have been a woman after all. Hans has figured out how to get back on his feet just to feed you some kefir in a park.
