“Political Satire” with the Capitol Steps

Date: Mon, December 07, 2009

Time: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Audience: High School and Middle School

Guest #1: Cast Members of the Capitol Steps

About this program:
The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them.
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 eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.
Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded 29 albums, including their latest, Barackin' Around the Christmas Tree . and Obama Mia!. They've been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard 4 times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials.


For additional information please see: http://www.capsteps.com/about/

To participate:
Transmission Modes: NOTA and eTech Ohio IP Networks Schools interested in participating in this educational opportunity should contact John Ramicone at 216-916-6360 or by December 3rd. A program fee of $75.00 will be charged to schools not in the NOTA or NORTH2 member districts. Please process a purchase order to WVIZ/PBS Distance Learning, c/o John Ramicone, 1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 44115 and fax a copy of the p.o. or the p. o. number to 216-916-6361.