The Capitol Steps at the Weinberg
If you are like me and have enjoyed the recent comedy sketches on Saturday Night Live, or if you feel like you could use a laugh at the expense of recent newsworthy events, or heck, if you could just use a laugh in general, head out to the Weinberg Center for the Arts on Saturday, October 25th for The Capitol Steps. From the Weinberg’s website:
It’s an election year like no other, so be sure to cast your vote for comedy with this ever-popular, always-sassy political satire troupe. Experts at putting the mock in democracy, the Capitol Steps keep both parties laughing with hilarious song parodies and sketches that poke fun at the facts and find the humor in every headline.
And from The Capitol Steps website:
The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them.
In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom (“Don’t quit your day job!”), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.
Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded 28 albums, including their latest, Camaign (sic) and Suffering . They’ve been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard 4 times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials.
You can listen to a few mp3′s from their most recent album Campaign and Suffering here. Showtime is 8:00 and ticket prices range from $20-$30.
