Our next few posts will be to introduce you to the cast of “Deadeye’s Wild West (or Subterfuge in Spearfish).” First up, meet Randy Bender who plays Deadeye Dan.
Randy’s family moved to the Beautiful Black Hills in 1967 and he thought he’d died and gone to heaven! He did leave the area for 30 years while he traveled with a repertory theater company (he told his parents he’d run away and joined the circus). During that time he traveled across four continents and performed over 16,000 times.
His audiences ranged from several thousand at a festival at Niagara Falls to the students of a bush school in South Africa to members of the Royal Family in Swaziland and troops on the DMZ in Korea. He returned home in 2004 where he combines his love of theater and local history by continuing to perform throughout the Hills Region and presentations at the Old Fort Meade Cavalry Museum.
“Deadeye’s Wild West” runs July 7-30, every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm .
