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BWW Reviews: The CAPITOL STEPS Delivers the Best Musical Satire in Washington

by Anya Sebastian - Sep 27, 2012

The Capitol Steps has been delighting audiences with political satire for over 30 years and is now something of a national institution. The group was born in December 1981 ('when Reagan was president and ketchup was a vegetable') when some Senate staffers got together to devise entertainment for their upcoming Christmas party. They came up with the novel idea of satirizing, to music, the very hands that fed them. And the rest, as they say, is history. . .