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Tonight David and I spent a hilarious evening with The Capitol Steps at Cranwell. What a hoot! This group has been around since the 1980's when some Senate pages decided to put on a Christmas Nativity show. They were stumped because they couldn't find three wise men and a virgin in the Congress! (yuk, yuk) I just stole one of the lines from the show.
Tonight's cast included Jon Bell, who was simply marvelous as Barach Obama and others, Mike Carruthers, who was Harry Reid, Kevin Corbett, who was Mitch McConnell and asked Harry Reid to marry him since you need to be gay these days to accomplish anything, Janet Gordon as a poppy-eyed Nancy Pelossi, Delores Williams, as Sonia Sotomayor, and Dave Kane the wizard of the keyboards. Each of the actor-singers portrayed numerous well-know Washington types complete with quick-change costumes and wigs.
Meet the Cast! All the Companies!
Let it be known that they left no tern unstoned! Including the Pope! A packed house laughed uncontrollably for an hour and a half. It was a great evening.
We started the evening with supper on the terrace of the nearby Pub which is on the impressive grounds of Cranwell.
If you get to the Berkshires before August 31st, go see it!!
Tonight David and I saw the Capitol Steps, the satirical branch of the U.S. Government, if you discount the House of Representatives, at Cranwell in Lenox. They are an endless supply of wit and jollity at the expense of the Federal Government and other pointless institutions.
Bari Biern
The cast included Bari Biern, Mike Caurrthers, Morgan Duncan, Janet Davidson Gordon,and Mike Tilford. The amazing keyboard player was Marc Irwin, who played the whole show from memory.
Mike Carruthers
The very funny sketches included How to succeed in Congress without really Lying, Embattled Hymn of the Republicans, and so on. Biting satire that was not for sissies- or Republicans.
Morgan Duncan
We began the evening at Sloane's Tavern on the Cranwell grounds with a delicious dinner and saw our neighbor Sue, who was there with a group from her work.
Janet Davidson Gordon
The mansion at Cranwell was built in 1894 and is one of the 'Berkshire Cottages', as they were then known.
Fifty room mansions that were only used in the summer months by the ultra rich when they were not at their homes in New York City, Palm Beach, or Paris. It's quite a place.
(Sorry about the double pictures of Marc Irwin. The foibles of Blog Site!)
Mike Tilford on the right
Marc Irwin, piano
