INEVENTS
CAPITOL STEPS BRING SONG AND SATIRE TO THE
SOUTH HILLS
Music for Mt. Lebanon presented “The Capitol Steps” on Saturday, April 12, 2014, at
the Upper St. Clair High School Auditorium.
“The Capitol Steps” are a humorous non-partisan satirical parody on politics and these
programs are a combination of music and skits. The group began as a group of Senate
staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them.
The group was born in December 1981, when some staffers for Senator Charles
Percy were planning entertainment for a Christmas party. They decided to dig into the
headlines of the day, and they created song parodies and skits which conveyed a special
brand of satirical humor.
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.
PHOTOS BY PRIMETIME
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