Capitol Steps

It's tough being a Berkshire County Jet Setter at my age! Tuesday night, Ragtime, Wednesday night, The Capitol Steps,  and come Saturday Mahler's Second at Berkshire Choral Festival.

But it keeps me off the streets!

The Capitol Steps is always a fun evening with very few Republicans in the audience. Their special brand of satire this year skewered Trump, the Pope, Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Supreme Court, Putin, well- you name it. 

This year's cast at Cranwell included Mike Thornton, Tracey Stephens, Morgan Duncan, Nancy Dolliver, Jack Rowles, and their amazing keyboard person Marc Irwin.

The cast quickly moved from one persona to another with lightning fast costume changes, some more convincing than others.

We felt this year's production was not as funny as some previous years and decided that part of the reason for this was that new scandals occur daily in the Trump administration too fast to keep up with. 

The show was entitled "Orange is the new Barack', so, of course, Obama was lampooned a number of times as well.

They would have to re-write the show almost daily to keep up with the activities of both Donald Trumps, to say nothing of the rest of Washington.

But it was a good evening.