IN MY SHOES: What It’s Like To Be A Travolta Impersonator
The New York Times starts off its profile of Brian Bergdoll by noting, “Well, you can tell by the way [he] walks, he’s a woman’s man, no time to talk.” Here are highlights from the article about life as a man who “makes his living dancing at crowded parties in tight polyester suits” impersonating Tony Manero, John Travolta’s character in “Saturday Night Fever”:
Mr. Bergdoll, “the country’s most entertaining John Travolta impersonator,” as his Web site, briantravolta.com, has it, hustled down
How, exactly, does one find oneself in this line of work? …
While studying film as an undergraduate at
Polly Esther’s loved it so much it hired him. He would dance on the weekend nights, working as a paralegal during the week. One year he decided to show up in costume at
The Roseanne impersonator introduced him to the booking agencies, and soon after, he was showing up at parties and corporate events, earning a few hundred dollars an hour for doing the Hustle, maybe singing some songs from “Grease.”
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