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Great Neck Record
- October 30, 2009
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By Danny Pitt Stoller
Just in case a nationwide comedy tour
wasn’t enough of a challenge, Evan Wecksell has taken on another.
The guitar-playing comedian and Great Neck native (South High
School, Class of 1997) is touring the country while training for a
marathon.
The 2009 Run Evan Run Tour
began on Aug. 23 and will continue through Nov. 1, the day of the
ING New York City Marathon. So Evan still has more time to work out,
run, sing and tell jokes, and driving to the next gig. If he has any
down time, he can be seen back in Great Neck running his hometown
streets.

Evan Wecksell
Besides the comedy-music routine that
most recently gained fame on America’s Got Talent, Wecksell is
performing in College the Musical: A Musical About College, a
full-length musical comedy he co-wrote with his wife and fellow
performer Kelly Meyersfield, also from Great Neck (South High
School, Class of 1996). The two-person show tells the story of a
freshman girl who goes off to college and grapples with such issues
as casual sex, alcoholism and sexually transmitted diseases.
Evan has some experience as a
long-distance runner, having run varsity track and cross-country at
Great Neck South and Tufts University. He also trained extensively
for his 2008 appearance on the Sci-Fi reality game show CHA$E. But
he “hadn’t been running that much” in recent years because, he
explained, “I didn’t have something to train for.” The New York City
marathon, on the other hand, is “a big something.”
A big something for a big
cause: Evan’s run in the marathon will support the “Fight for Kids”
campaign launched by the nonprofit organization Citizens’ Commission
on Human Rights (CCHR).”Fight for Kids” seeks to resist the
psychiatric over-drugging and labeling of children by educating and
offering alternatives to parents. Evan is also selling College The
Musical: A Musical About College soundtracks at all his shows to
benefit “Fight for Kids.”
Upcoming show dates include
Nov. 9 at Texas State University-San Marcos and James Madison
University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. And the show keeps going, even
after the marathon, with a College performance scheduled for Nov. 20
at Mercer County Community College in Princeton, NJ.
Visit
www.funnyevanmarathon.com to
contribute to the cause, and to get up-to-date information on
upcoming shows.
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