The Capitol Steps Take Aim at Current Politicians

The popular political pundits, The Capitol Steps, will make their Billings premiere at the Alberta Bair Theater, 3rd and Broadway downtown, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 9, followed by the sensational female vocal quartet Lascivious Biddies at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, May 11. Tickets for both shows are on sale now.

The Capitol Steps began in 1981 as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. The group marked its 25th anniversary during 2006.

The bulk of the Capitol Steps’ material is in the form of parodies of well-known songs, usually introduced with a short skit. These songs are interspersed with other routines, including a spoonerism routine “Lirty Dies” that the group generally includes near the end of each performance, running through recent scandals while making numerous innuendoes.

The show is constantly changing, but one can expect to hear a couple of these songs,

“Barack Around the Clock,” “Don’t Go Fakin’ You’re Smart,” “I’m So Indicted,” “Dukes of Oil,” “The Hillary-billies,” and “Who’ll Stop McCain?”

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 18 Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.

Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded 27 albums, including their latest, “Springtime for Liberals.” They’ve been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard four times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their “Politics Takes a Holiday” radio specials.

As of 2002, the Steps consist of 26 cast members and four pianists. They perform public and private shows year round all over the country. They also appear at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, DC, every weekend.

The show is generously sponsored by Food Services of America with support from Yellowstone Public Radio.