Traveling business class can be one of the most elegant ways to go.  You don’t necessarily have to be in business to do it, either, although it certainly helps.  But there are times when you can decide to perform another version of yourself and travel the way the upper crust travels.  Flying is, of course, more expensive, but you get more leg room, and you can talk to the people that other people usually make fun of on their way to coach.  You can also stay in very nice business hotels in New York, and they have all the comfort and luxury of other hotels, and even step it up a bit.  You don’t have to make any contacts or network at all, but can just enjoy the amenities.

And while you’re impersonating a version of yourself, this might be the time to go and see David Greenspan perform versions of himself, or talking about the possibility of performing in the middle of a performance.  According to sources that we cannot necessarily vouch for, Greenspan has never been better, and that does actually mean something for the actor who won an obie for his brilliant work in the revival of Boys in the Band a decade ago.

His play, The Myopia, is a fantastical story told by one person, and after seeing him work an audience, no one else could tell it.  It would, in fact, be like Hollywood sending out someone to speak for Gertrude Stein because she wasn’t authentic as herself.  This is a performance within a performance, about performing, where the story involves multiple characters and multiple realities.  This is all told from a chair on an empty stage, and the effect is stunning.  The storytelling is top notch, and the conceit never gets old, but only more fascinating as it goes on.  It’s almost as dizzying as writing a blog about a performance about a performance which pretends to write about impersonating yourself, but maybe this is much more clever.  Time will tell.

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