When a group of former Senate staffers launched the Capitol Steps, Ronald Reagan was president and, in hindsight, the material there for the musical parody revue seems almost quaint.
In the 35 years since, the show’s satire has become a comic staple, a must-see for junkies of our quirky democracy, and it feels in some way that all that practice has been building to this moment in the theater of the absurd.
Tuesday night, five of The Steps’ players gave a decidedly Democratic-leaning crowd at The Commonwealth Room — the event was preceded by a fundraiser for Senate candidate Jenny Wilson — a chance to laugh off the election year tensions and frustrations.