While you were likely sleeping, Ben Dicke began his 24-hour treadmill marathon to fund a production of “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.” He’d been at it for seven hours when we stopped by. (He’s on the median between Champa and Stout streets.)
He looked pretty fresh for a guy who’d already covered some serious ground.
A woman stopped by with her two tween daughters. She took a pic and said she’d post it to her wall. Local actor Andrew Diessner (“Xanadu” and “Ragtime”) was sitting nearby for support. There was a table with provisions, a big jar of Jif peanut butter for one. There were also a couple of volumes about our nation’s seventh president.
The teal bucket in front of the treadmill had coins and some bills of various denominations. It’s a big bucket; this is a hopeful guy. Dicke’s dad had cleaned out the haul once already. As of this post Dicke’s Kickstarter campaign is at $8559 with 14 hours to go to hit the $10,000 mark. We hope to check in one last time today with local theater’s marathon man. If you’re wondering when he might need cheering the most, he says he fears the 17-hour mark a bit.
